Busy Gals Classic Reading Society News: December 2013

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Finished the book!

OK, so I just finished the book! It got really interesting, & I couldn't put it down. CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE ENDING??? No spoilers here, so I won't say anything...

Sunday, December 1, 2013

I forgot to post that we are having a white elephant gift exchange. Lorraine and I want to emphasize that "White Elephant" means you should bring something that you don't want, something crazy, odd weird, etc., NOT something nice - like bath and body products!

Bring your trash wrapped and ready to exchange! We will have an awesome time!
Thanks for the reminder Peggy Ann!

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Up coming book selections

October - Marcie discussion leader for the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Discussion date Oct. 19. Halloween Party and movie Young Frankenstein) November - Lorraine discussion leader for the book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass. December - Sharon discussion leader for The Christmas Carole by Charles Dickens. Christmas Party. January 2025 - Stephanie R discussion leader for The Arabian Nights Folk Tales. February - Stephanie T discussion leader for Night March - Kris discussion leader for A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis April - Stefanie M discussion leader for Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

About Us

Welcome to the New Busy Gals Classic Reading Society News Blog!

Our Busy Gals Classic Reading Society has been in existence since April 24, 2009.
A few of my friends and I wanted to read the classic literature and books we should have read while in High School. And having children currently in High School we wanted to read some of the things they were being asked to read.

Purpose for the Busy Gals Reading Society

“To become well read in great classic literature, to study the grand masters, to become more intelligent, “to seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom” D& C 88:118.”

So this Blog will be the place for our dedicated readers to come and see what book we are reading and also see how things turned out at our discussion of the book. Sharon S. - Founder

Busy Gals Classic Reading Society Book List

90. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
89. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
88. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
87. The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
86. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
85. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
84. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
83. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book one by Douglas Adams
82. Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
81. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
80. The Giver by Lois Lowry
79. Emma by Jane Austin
78. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
77. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
76. Holes by Louis Sachar
75. The Witches by Roald Dahl
74. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
73. The African Queen by C. S. Forester
72. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
71. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
70. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré
69. Call of the Wild by Jack London
68. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
67. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammet
66. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
65. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
64. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
63. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
62. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
61. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
60. Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon
59. The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway
58. Merry Wives of Windsor by Shakespeare
57. 1984 by George Orwell
56. King Lear by William Shakespeare
55. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
54. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
53. True Grit by Charles Portis
52. Peter Pan by James Matthew Barrie
51. Works by Edgar Allan Poe
50. Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
49. Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
48.The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott
47. Middlemarch by George Eliot
46.The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
45. The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
44. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Buroughs
43. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
42. Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
41. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
40. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin
39. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
38. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
37. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
36. Dracula by Bram Stoker
35. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronté
34.The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
33.The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
32.The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
31. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
30. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
29. The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty
28. The Small Woman by Alan Burgess
27. Howards End by E. M. Forester
26. Lorna Doone by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
25. The Mansion by Henry Van Dyke
24. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
23. The Fellowship of the Ring by J R R Tolkien
22. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
21. Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
20. Stories by O. Henry
19. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
18. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
17. Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
16. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
15. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
14. My Antonia by Will Cather
13. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
12. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
11. Poetry by Robert Frost
10. Silas Marner by George Elliot
9. The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe
8. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
7. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
6. Persuasion by Jane Austin
5. The Hounds of the Baskervilles by Sir Aurther Conan Doyle
4. Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens
1. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

Busy Gals Classic Reading Society News

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Finished the book!

Sunday, December 1, 2013

White Elephant Gift

Possible Book Selections for Future Reading - Sharon

Classic books that we don't want to read