BLOG #51, SERIES #4

WEDNESDAYS WITH DR. JOE

ALL YE BOOK-LOVERS

LOOKING BACKWARD; LOOKING FORWARD

December 18, 2013

It was a little over two years ago that we launched “Dr. Joe’s Book of the Month Club.” Since it was voluntary, no-fee, and no one was required to respond, it has been most difficult to know just who has been faithfully (at least most of the time) keeping up. Before introducing Book #26 in 2014, I’d really like to hear back from all of you who have been following along. Let me know which authors, titles, you like best, and why. General reactions to the format too. Anything – just report in. Please? So I can be reassured that these monthly book blogs are meeting a need.

To refresh your memory – if you’ve been following along –, and to enable you to start back at the beginning, if you’ve a mind to, here is a list of our first 25 books of the month. Since I’m providing the dates those entries first appeared, it should be relatively easy for you to retrieve all those earlier entries. Here they are:

PROPOSAL FOR CLUB (October 26, 2011)

BOOKS

1. Williamson, C. M. And A. M., My Friend the Chauffeur (Oct. 19, 2011)

2. Wright, Harold Bell, The Calling of Dan Matthews (Oct. 26, 2011)

3. Dickens, Charles, The Christmas Carol (Nov. 23, 2011)

4. Brown, Abbie Farwell, The Christmas Angel (Nov. 23, 2011)

5. Grey, Zane, Heritage of the Desert (Dec. 28, 2011)

6. Thoreau, Henry David, Walden (Jan. 25, 2012)

7. Burnett, Frances Hodgson, Little Lord Fauntleroy (Feb. 29, 2012)

8. Grey, Zane, Wanderer of the Wasteland [ZG #2] (Mar. 28, 2012)

9. Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, Enoch Arden (May 2, 2012)

10. Richmond, Grace, The Twenty-Fourth of June (May 23, 2012)

11. Duncan, Dayton , and Ken Burns, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea (June 27, 2012)

12. Sheldon, Charles, In His Steps (Aug. 22, 2012)

13. Goudge, Elizabeth, City of Bells (Sept. 26, 2012)

14. Tarkington, Booth, Penrod (Oct. 31, 2012)

15. Douglas, Lloyd C., Home for Christmas (Nov. 28, 2012)

16. Richmond, Grace, Foursquare [GR #2] (Jan. 2, 2013)

17. Hale, Edward Everett, The Man Without a Country (Feb. 6, 2013)

18. Reed, Myrtle, The Master’s Violin (Apr. 3, 2013)

19. Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World, and Brave New World Revisited (May 8, 2013)

20. Grey, Zane, Riders of the Purple Sage [ZG #3] (June 5, 2013)

21. Porter, Gene Stratton, Freckles (July 17, 2013)

22. Hill, Grace Livingston, Happiness Hill (Aug. 21, 2013)

23. Hugo, Vic tor, Les Miserables (Sept. 25, 2013)

24. Knight, Eric, Lassie Come Home (Nov. 6, 2013)

25. Van Dyke, Henry, The Other Wise Man (Dec. 4, 2013)

CONTACT INFORMATION

Please respond to this blog questionnaire [includes those who’d like to join the club right now] via one of the following:

P.O. Box 1246, Conifer, CO 80433

email: [email protected]

Looking forward to hearing from you!