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MsBookworm
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Suggestions?
Okay, I the church I go to has a book club, and I've go a few suggestions in my mind. What I really need are suggestions of books that have little to no swearing in them (and by little, I mean little), no obvious sex, and basically nothing really bad in them. Right now, our book of the month is At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon.
Mays book: Charlie's Promise (or something like that, can't remember off the top of my head)
June: Sense & Sensibility.
My suggestions are:
Pride & Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Marley & Me (I have to re-read that one to see if it's appropriate)
The Notebook (actually somebody elses, I'm not a fan of that book).
Thanks for the help!
Mays book: Charlie's Promise (or something like that, can't remember off the top of my head)
June: Sense & Sensibility.
My suggestions are:
Pride & Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Marley & Me (I have to re-read that one to see if it's appropriate)
The Notebook (actually somebody elses, I'm not a fan of that book).
Thanks for the help!
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx
A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Heinrich Mann
A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Heinrich Mann
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Drummergal42
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MsBookworm
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clarebear
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How about something from the 19th century. Unlikely to have swearing in. Any Dickens would be good clean fun. If you are not fancying anything that old then Steinbeck? Or Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
Theres millions of possibilities.
Theres millions of possibilities.
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Libellus
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Good call clarebear. Mockingbird would be a great choice.
Depending on the audience (do they want to challenge/be challenged ?) maybe Graham Greene, something like "the Human Factor" may be safe-ish (its been a while since I read it, so you may need to check)
George Eliot - Silas Marner?
Bronte- Wuthering Heights?
Any Conan Doyle ?
Tricky not knowing what you've done or the audience
Harper Lee may be safest!
Depending on the audience (do they want to challenge/be challenged ?) maybe Graham Greene, something like "the Human Factor" may be safe-ish (its been a while since I read it, so you may need to check)
George Eliot - Silas Marner?
Bronte- Wuthering Heights?
Any Conan Doyle ?
Tricky not knowing what you've done or the audience
Harper Lee may be safest!
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pbplace
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I would recommend anything published by Bethany House. This a Christian publishing house. They publish books by Beverly Lewis, Tracy Petersen, Gilbert Morris - just to name a few. Go to there website for a list of authors and books. I would give you the link to their site, but I'm not allowed here...just google bethany house publishers. Hope this helps...
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Erasmus_Folly
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I would recommend The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby. It is a very inspirational book that meets your requirements I believe. From an editorial review:
We've all got our idiosyncrasies when it comes to writing--a special chair we have to sit in, a certain kind of yellow paper we absolutely must use. To create this tremendously affecting memoir, Jean-Dominique Bauby used the only tool available to him--his left eye--with which he blinked out its short chapters, letter by letter. Two years ago, Bauby, then the 43-year-old editor-in-chief of Elle France, suffered a rare stroke to the brain stem; only his left eye and brain escaped damage. Rather than accept his "locked in" situation as a kind of death, Bauby ignited a fire of the imagination under himself and lived his last days--he died two days after the French publication of this slim volume--spiritually unfettered. In these pages Bauby journeys to exotic places he has and has not been, serving himself delectable gourmet meals along the way (surprise: everything's ripe and nothing burns). In the simplest of terms he describes how it feels to see reflected in a window "the head of a man who seemed to have emerged from a vat of formaldehyde."
From the Library Journal:
On December 8 1995, Elle magazine editor-in-chief Bauby suffered a stroke and lapsed into a coma. He awoke 20 days later, mentally aware of his surroundings but physically paralyzed with the exception of some movement in his head and left eye. Bauby had Locked-in-Syndrome, a rare condition caused by stroke damage to the brain stem. Eye movements and blinking a code representing letters of the alphabet became his sole means of communication. It is also how he dictated this warm, sad, and extraordinary memoir. Bauby's thoughts on the illness, the hospital, family, friends, career, and life before and after the stroke appear with considerable humor and humanity. Sadly, Bauby died of his condition in 1997.
This was made into a film released last year and nominated for an oscar for best director.
We've all got our idiosyncrasies when it comes to writing--a special chair we have to sit in, a certain kind of yellow paper we absolutely must use. To create this tremendously affecting memoir, Jean-Dominique Bauby used the only tool available to him--his left eye--with which he blinked out its short chapters, letter by letter. Two years ago, Bauby, then the 43-year-old editor-in-chief of Elle France, suffered a rare stroke to the brain stem; only his left eye and brain escaped damage. Rather than accept his "locked in" situation as a kind of death, Bauby ignited a fire of the imagination under himself and lived his last days--he died two days after the French publication of this slim volume--spiritually unfettered. In these pages Bauby journeys to exotic places he has and has not been, serving himself delectable gourmet meals along the way (surprise: everything's ripe and nothing burns). In the simplest of terms he describes how it feels to see reflected in a window "the head of a man who seemed to have emerged from a vat of formaldehyde."
From the Library Journal:
On December 8 1995, Elle magazine editor-in-chief Bauby suffered a stroke and lapsed into a coma. He awoke 20 days later, mentally aware of his surroundings but physically paralyzed with the exception of some movement in his head and left eye. Bauby had Locked-in-Syndrome, a rare condition caused by stroke damage to the brain stem. Eye movements and blinking a code representing letters of the alphabet became his sole means of communication. It is also how he dictated this warm, sad, and extraordinary memoir. Bauby's thoughts on the illness, the hospital, family, friends, career, and life before and after the stroke appear with considerable humor and humanity. Sadly, Bauby died of his condition in 1997.
This was made into a film released last year and nominated for an oscar for best director.
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