Book of the Month Club?

**elizabethann** · 10-07-2005, 09:19 AM

Have we decided which book to read yet? It's a 3 day weekend and it's supposed to rain for 1/2 of it. Seems like good reading weather (at least for me in NH).

If we pick it today, I can go to the library after work and get it (if it's in).

**kimboe** · 10-07-2005, 09:28 AM

yes, I agree with elizabethann. It's going to be perfect reading time this long weekend, I hope we can decide on a book title today.

**shutterbug0303** · 10-07-2005, 10:22 AM

The pressure's on!!

I'm going to go right now and check out the best sellers list and see what sounds good...or maybe just choose a book from an author I already like

(oh boy, I'm nervous about this...I hope I pick a good one...)

**Jadapit** · 10-07-2005, 10:24 AM

You will do fine Judy!

I just hope our library has the books everyone picks. Small town living sucks sometimes.

**elizabethann** · 10-07-2005, 10:58 AM

I hope you pick a good one too.

**shutterbug0303** · 10-07-2005, 11:09 AM

I think I've found the one...something that would be good for all ages

It's #7 on NYT Best Seller's List (has been on the list for 2 weeks now)

"Light on Snow" by Anita Shreve

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031...books&v=glance

That is Amazon's page on it...here's the synopsis:

"An after-school stroll leads to a life-altering event for widower Robert Dillon and his 12-year-old daughter, Nicky, in this delicate new novel by acclaimed author Shreve (All He Ever Wanted,etc.). In the woods surrounding their secluded home in Shepherd, N.H., Robert and Nicky make a startling discovery—a baby abandoned and left to die in the snow. The infant survives, but the incident leaves its mark. Still recovering from the painful loss of her mother and infant sister two years earlier, and readjusting to the shock of a sudden move from suburban Westchester to rural Shepherd, Nicky struggles to reconcile her innocent notions of adult integrity with the bleak reality of their discovery. The tenuous sense of normalcy Robert manages to sustain is broken with the appearance of Charlotte, the baby's young mother, on his doorstep. Retold 18 years later by an adult Nicky but written in the present tense, the story shifts brilliantly between childlike visions of a simple world and the growing realization of its cruel ambiguities. Aside from a few saccharine moments and a rather pat ending, Shreve does a skilled job of portraying grief, conflict and anger while leaving room for hope, redemption and renewal. Her characters are sympathetic without being pitiable, and her prose remains deceptively simple and eloquent throughout. "

Happy Reading!!