Book Club

DIVA’S BOOK CLUB meets the 4th Wednesday of each month from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at Yarning for You in San Marcos.  We’ve been meeting since 2006!

Our book club has no “official” membership. Feel free to join us anytime for one of our book club discussions when the book selection piques your interest.

We’ve had some lively discussions in the past – just look at the diverse list of books, see below!  There’s only been a few times we have agreed 100% that we liked or disliked a book.  It’s interesting and thought provoking when you find that others disagree or agree with you…. or how a character or theme relates to a life experience.

Suggestions for future books are solicited and voted on by all. We strive to choose books that are available in paperback to help keep your costs down (saving money for yarn!).  Often the selections are available at your local library. 

Other advantages? You get to knit during the book club – how great is that! You’ll meet  new friend, knit and chat away…oh and snack…we often have snacks ranging from sweets to appetizers.

Take a look at the current Book List and consider joining us. You are welcome any time.  

Book Club Reads for 2011

 Jan 26: The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig
Feb 23: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
Mar 23: Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
Apr 27: The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
May 25: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
June 22: Breakfast with Buddha, Roland Merullo

 

 

 

Diva’s Book Club: Historical List 2006 – 2010

84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khalid Hosseini

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

The Ash Garden, Dennis Bock

Atonement, Ian McEwan

Away, Amy Bloom

Before You Know Kindness, Chris Bohjalian

Beneath the Marble Sky, John Shors

The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder

Brooklyn, Colm Toibin

The Coffee Trader, David Liss

Digging to America, Anne Tyler

Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

The End of the Affair, Graham Greene

Ethan Fromme, Edith Wharton

Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, Steig Larsson

The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls

The Good Earth, Pear S. Buck

The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

The Help, Kathryn Stockett

Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer

Last Days of Dogtown, Anita Diamant

Left to Tell, Immaculee Ilibagiza

Mango Season, Amulya Malladi

Molokai, Alan Brennert

Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem

My Antonia, Willa Cather

My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult

Night, Elie Wiesel

Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout

One Thousand White Women, Jim Fergus

Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, Katherine Howe

Property, Valerie Martin

Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

The Samurai’s Garden, Gail Tsukiyama

The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

Snowflower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See

Stormy Weather, Paulette Jiles

Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams

Summer at Tiffany, Marjorie Hart

Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

Tall Grass, Sandra Dallas

Their Eyes are Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston

These Is My Words, Nancy E. Turner

Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen

When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro

The Widow of the South, Robert Hicks

Widow's War, Sallie Gunning