You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

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- Slick's Slugs - 1 - 6 books
Mostly Wild things and Nature

1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (755 pages) completed 1/6/2014

birds

2A. Duck the Halls Donna Andrews (319 pp.) complete 1/9/2014

bird & wolf, also initial D.

2B. The Mrs. Dalloway Reader by Virginia Woolf (194 pp.) completed 1/19/2014

Virginia Woolf is a literary luminary, and what's more natural than stars?

3. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (849 pp.) completed 1/22/2014

stars/heaven

4A.Heavenly Pleasures by Kerry Greenwood (278 pp.) Completed 1/12/2014

heaven/earth, also same author

4B. Earthly Delights by Kerry Greenwood (239 pp.) Completed 1/5/2014
Two books total 517 pp.)

Earth/buried

5A. Buried in a Bog by Sheila Connolly (304 pp.) Completed 1/24/14

Books set in Ireland

5B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man byJames Joyce (329 pp.)
total = 633 pp. Completed 2/02/2014.

major character in book 6A. pretends to know James Joyce, and talks about him a lot.

6A. The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman (357 pp.) completed 1/31/2014.

includes ghost-hunting scenes

6B. Home for the Haunting by Juliet Blackwell (337 pp.) Completed 2/02/2014.

Set in California, in San Francisco Bay area.

- Mickey Mouse's Marchers - 7 - 12 books

7. The Circle 506 pp. By Dave Eggers. Finished 2/05/2014

(common initials E & G)

8. Wives and Daughters 805 pp. by Elizabeth Gaskill Finished 3/13/2014

(common inital "D" --Daughters and Design)

9A. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking 198 pp. Finished 2/16/14

(similarity in author's names: Hawking and King)

9B. Joyland by Stephen King 283 pp. finished 2/16/2014

(similarity in title "Joyland" and author's name, Karen Joy Fowler)

9C. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler 310 pages Finished 3/02/2014

(author of 9C and main character of 10A both have middle name "Joy")

10A. Lending a Paw: A Bookmobile Cat Mystery by Laurie Cass. 352 pp. finished 2/26/2014

(library theme: bookmobile and Library reading group)

10B. A Tale of Two Biddies by Kylie Logan subtitle: a League of Literary Ladies Book. 304 pp. finished 2/23/2014

common initials: "T" in title and "L" in subtitle

11A. Triplanetary, Lensman No. 1, by E.E. "Doc" Smith 287 pages finished 2/21/2014

"t's" in titles

11B. A Taste Fur Murder by Dixie Lyle 323 pages Finished 3/06/3014

ghosts & graveyards

12A. Relatively Dead by Sheila Connolly 211 pages Finished 3/11/2014

more ghosts

12B. The Ghost Train to New Orleans by Mur Lafferty. 314 pp. Finished 3/14/2014

Golems

- Roadrunner's Racers - 13 - 18 books
Theme is gods (all kinds), myths, legends and sacred or magical places. (Most refer to Coyote)

13. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker 809 pages (Kindle version) finished 3/15

14. American Gods by Neil Gaiman. 588 pages. finished 4/11

15A Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru. 384 pp. finished 3/29

15B Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry 432 pages. Finished 3/14

16A Moonheart by Charles de Lint 439 pp. Finished 4/13

16B Spiritwalk by Charles de Lint 416 pp. Finished 4/18

17A Night Broken by Patricia Briggs 341 pp. Finished 4/15

17B Black Arts by Faith Hunter 325 pp. Finished 4/21

18A Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire 356 pp. Finished 4/20

18B Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen 296 pp. Finished 4/23

- Tasmanian Devil's Trouncers - 19 - 24 books

19. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 582 pp. Finished 4/27

Author's first name is Sarah

20A. Invisible by Paul Auster 320 pp. Finished 6/6

One word title.

20B. Nearly Departed in Deadwood by Ann Charles 376 pages Finished 5/8

Author's name starts with "A"

21A. Optical Delusions in Deadwood by Ann Charles 432 pages Finished 5/27

21B. Better Off Dead in Deadwood by Ann Charles 400 pages Finished by 5/28

22A. Dead Case in Deadwood by Ann Charles 405 pages Finished by 5/28

22B. Dance of the Winnebagos by Ann Charles 370 pp. Finished 6/6

[20B thru 22B are all same author, Ann Charles]

23A. Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well by Nancy Atherton 288 pages Finished 6/21

"Ann," "Aunt" and "Atherton" all start with "A"

23B. Heirs of Grace by Tim Pratt 271 pages Finished 6/19

23A and 23B are both about inheritances

24A. Storm Force by Susannah Sandlin 320 pp. Finished 6/26

[23B, 24A and 24B all first appeared as Amazona serials]

24B. Indexing by Seanan McGuire 404 pages Finished 7/4

- Buzz Lightyear's Bombers - 25 - "To infinity and beyond"

25A. The Islanders by Christopher Priest 342 pp. Finished 7/13

[Indexing and Islanders both start with "I"]

25B. book:The Great Jackalope Stampede|19086219] by Ann Charles 415 pp. Finished 7/13

[Christopher Priest's first name and Ann Charles' last name both start with "Ch"]

26A. Jackrabbit Junction Jitters by Ann Charles 386 pp. Finished 6/27

same author

26B. An Ex to Grind in Deadwood by Ann Charles 415 pp. Finished 8/30

same author

27. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 509 pages. Finished 8/16/14

[Ann, Atlas and Angels all start with "A"]

28. The Wine of Angels by The Wine of Angels 640 pages Finished 8/25

[Ann, Atlas and Angels all start with "A"]
[28-30 are all by same author]

29. Midwinter of the Spirit by Phil Rickman 544 pages. Finished 11/5/14.

30. A Crown of Lights by Phil Rickman, 576 pages. Finished 12/4/14

I think there is a buddy read starting with the The Luminaries you might want to check out.
I like your theme too.

Yes, there is a buddy read for the Luminaries, but I will probably get to it a little late, since I want to read The Goldfinch first.

Casceil wrote: "Yes, there is a buddy read for the Luminaries, but I will probably get to it a little late, since I want to read The Goldfinch first."

Quite a few of the buddy reads this year will probably span the whole year with people dipping in and out when they read the book - so many of us have the same books on our lists!

Casceil wrote: "Yes, there is a buddy read for the Luminaries, but I will probably get to it a little late, since I want to read The Goldfinch first."

i am going to be late also. I am 5th in line at the library.

I read To the Lighthouse last year and loved her style. Mrs. Dalloway is my next one Virginia Woolf's book.

You are moving right along- nice job finishing Slick's.