Suggestions from the June 6, 2011 Gathering

On Communication -
“A real writer causes you to experience Life’s journey.”

Fiction:

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Still Alice and Left Neglected by Lisa Genova

22 Britainia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson

Novels, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Insomnia, The Stand, Duma Key, The Green Mile, Bag of Bones, Lisey’s Story, Needful Things and Rose Madder, and short stories, “The Body” and “Shawshank Redemption”, to list a few by Stephen King

The Sunday Philosophy Club Series by Alexander McCall Smith, in order: The Sunday Philosophy Club; Friends, Lovers, Chocolate; The Right Attitude to Rain; The Careful Use of Compliments; The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday; The Lost Art of Gratitude; The Charming Quirks of Others

Nonfiction:

How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One by Stanley Fish

Faithful: two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season by Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, and, OnWriting by Stephen King

Hands of My Father: a Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love by Myron Uhlberg

Humor:

The Best of S.J. Perelman by S.J. Perelman

DVD:

Rosemary and Thyme Series

*Downton Abbey Series

*And don’t miss the Downton Abbey Parody on YouTube, it is a two part piece titled: Uptown Downstairs Abbey

Audio Book:

Needful Things by Stephen King