From the Coordinator's Shelf: The Physic Book of Deliverance Dane

Ok, so I am always in a bookstore. If not too get a book, but then to take a few minutes break (quiet is a precious commodity in my life) or write on my blogs or take my kids to play with the great kids area and storytime, but recently at the Barnes and Noble, I think in Georgetown, I saw this fantastic cover.

It was earthy and green with a victorian-ish feel. It caught my eye and I put it in my stack of items to check out.

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe.




I loved it. It was historical, modern, intellectual, a touch sexy, and definetely mystical and pleasantly supernatural. It made my mind travel and I wondered about geneology for a good while. It made it's way into my purse and was worth the hardcover price... a feat for most texts to be sure.

Buy at Barnes and Noble here

Real Women Read #1: Netherland

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill.



The book has been chosen as a personal read of President Obama and selected by our reading group. It is the tale of an immigrant as he makes his way through in a new America and his life as affected by terrorism' cricket, his marriage and the different occurances that happen therein.

Beautifully written prose and highly recommended, personally I just could not find my way through Netherland's social commentary to connect. At today's session, we will discuss and see if the other readers found their way through and what their commentary might be.

If you would like to comment below, feel free.

Let me introduce our next read... in a slightly different genre, but hopefully totally engaging and relatable, is Julie and Julia.



Here is a blurb from the publisher's site:
"Julie & Julia, the bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer), is now a major motion picture. Julie Powell, nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, resolves to reclaim her life by cooking in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a newfound respect for calves' livers and aspic, but a new life-lived with gusto. The film version is written and directed by Nora Ephron and stars Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia."

To listen to an excerpt: click here or to download a podcast, click here

To join us for coffee, conversation and to discuss the book on August 1, 2009 at 3:00pm, RSVP at www.lbdclub.com or send an email to tmbcollier@gmail.com