MPL Reader Advisor

Happy Birthday! It is hard to believe that we have been discussing books for 9 years, but it is true. Did you know that our first discussion was on the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card?

I always like to look back at the books that we have read over the years.

Here is the list of what we read in 2014

"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho and a book off of your "to read list"
"Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
"Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford
"The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax" by Dorothy Gilman
"The Devil in the While City" by Erik Larson
"The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells" Andrew Sean Greer
"Mrs. Poe" by Lynn Cullen
"A Long Fatal Love Chase" by Louisa May Alcott
Banned Book: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Tending Roses" by Lisa Wingate
Audio book of your choice

Check out this long list (2006-2013) if you want to see what we have read over the years.

2013

Book you received as a gift
"The Book of Tomorrow" by Cecelia Ahern
"The Blue Castle" by L. M. Montgomery
"Ella Minnow Pea" by Mark Dunn
" A Breath of Eyre" by Eve Marie Mont
"Neighborhood Watch" by Cammie McGovern
"Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
"Orphan Train" Christina Baker Kline
"The Secrets of Mary Bowser" by Lois Leveen
Banned Book: "Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Canan Doyle

2012

“The Help” by Kathryn Stockett
“ My Life from Scratch” by Gesine Bullock Prado
“Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt” by Beth Hoffman
“The Violets of March” by Sarah Jio
“A Devil to Play” by Jasper Rees
“Crocodile on the Sandbank” by Elizabeth Peters
“The Story of the Trapp Family Singers” by Maria Augusta Trapp
“The Tigers Wife” by Tea Obreht
“Five Quarters of the Orange” by Joanne Harris
“The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern
“Daughters of Witching Hill” by Mary Sharrat
Book that your received as a gift

2011

“Prayers for Sale” by Sandra Dallas
“The Princess Bride” by William Goldman
“The Beekeeper’s Apprentice” by Laurie R. King
“Hearts of Horses” by Molly Gloss
“The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” by Alan Bradley
Novel Destinations: book of your choice that takes place somewhere you have always wanted to go. (Based on the summer reading program theme)
“The Island” by Victoria Hislop
“City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare
Banned book of your choice and or To Kill a Mockingbird
“Seer of Shadows” by AVI
“The Help” by Kathryn Stockett

2010

“The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” by David Wroblewski
“Sarah Canary” by Karen Joy Fowler
“Emma” by Jane Austen
“Dewey: The small town library cat who touched the world” by Vicki Myron
“Book of Unholy Mischief” by Elle Newmark
“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins
“The Host” by Stephanie Meyer
Banned Book of your choice
“The Forgotten Garden” by Kate Morton
“Santa Clawed” by Rita Mae Brown
“The Devlin Diary” by Christi Phillips

2009

“The Thin Woman” by Dorothy Cannell
“The Naming” by Alison Croggon
“Moon Medicine” by Mike Blakely
“Farewell to Manzanar” by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
“The Alchemyst” by Michael Scott and/or “Edymion Spring” by Matthew Skelton
“Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” by Lisa See
“Stepsister Scheme” by Jim C. Hines
“The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer
“Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen
Banned Book of your choice
“These Is My Words” by Nancy Turner
“The Christmas Carol” by Dickens and
”The best Christmas Pageant Ever” by Robinson

2008

“A Town Like Alice” by Nevil Shute
“Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west” by Gregory Maguire
“Tallgrass” by Sandra Dallas
“A Great and Terrible Beauty” by Libba Bray
“Housekeeping” by Marilynne Robinson
“The Book Thief” by Markus Zasak
“The Princess and the Hound” by Mette Ivie Harrison
“The Book of Lost Things” by John Connolly
Arthurian Legend themed book or your choice
Banned Book: “Twilight” by Stephanie Meyer
“The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfield
“Winterdance” by Gary Paulsen

2007

“Poison Study” by Maria V. Snyder
“Flying Crows” by Jim Lehrar
“Falling Leaves” by Adeline Yen Mah
“Mrs. Mike” by Benedict Freedman
“Timeline” by Michael Crichton
“S is for Silence” by Sue Grafton
“Three Cups of Tea” Greg Mortenson
Retold Fairy Tale of your choice
“The Tea Rose” by Jennifer Donnelly
“My Sisters Keeper” Jodi Picoult
Banned book of your choice
“Christmas Letters” Debbie Macomber

2006

“Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card
“The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle” by Avi
“The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger
“Persian Pickle Club” by Sandra Dallas
“Murder on the Middle Fork” by Don Ian Smith
“Darkly Dreaming Dexter” by Jeff Lindsay
“Elantris” by Brandon Sanderson
“A Northern Light” by Jennifer Donnelly
“Peril at End House” by Agatha Christie and one book of your choice by Agatha Christie
“The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency” by Alexander McCall Smith

What has been your favorite book in 2014? Do you have a favorite that has really stood out over the past 9 years? Have you shared any of these books with anyone?

Spin a Good Yarn is a fiber arts group that meets at the library twice a month. We discuss books and current events while working on our current projects. We meet the 2nd and 4th Thursday evening at 7pm. However, we are not meeting in December because the library closes early in December (at 6pm). In September I handed out a challenge to the group. Here is a PDF with instructions for challenge. The challenge is creating something that has been inspired by binary code (ex. 01001011 is the code for the letter k). Challenge show and tell is our first meeting in 2015. So if you would like to join us or come see our projects that are inspired with binary code you are welcome to drop in on January 8 at 7pm.