Seven Months of Book Club Books

I think this is what the next few months is going to look like. If anybody has any changes that they'd like to suggest or correct anything, let me know. This will be made into a thread probably within the next few days.

July 2011 - Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat by Andrez Bergen
August 2011 - Sinister Miniatures by Kris Saknussemm
September 2011 - Warmed and Bound
October 2011 - The Samaritan by Fred Venturini
November 2011 - Slut Lullabies by Gina Frangello
December 2011 - You Can Make Him Like You by Ben Tanzer
January 2012 - The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
February 2012 - In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard

Sounds good to me; I'm planning to read about five of those anyway.

Hopefully we can wait a while to choose/confirm the ones after that, but my next book Flashover should be out next spring-ish if anyone's interested in doing that one a few months after the above. Though I feel like a tool mentioning something so far in the future (and, y'know, for suggesting my own. . .).

Hey - you've been here forever (before me even)! I have no problem having your book as a Book Club selection. Keep in contact with me so we can set a date.

Also - I don't know if you noticed (I posted in the I Just Bought... thread) by I finally bought Major Inversions a couple months ago. I keep getting sucked into things that I have to read. But I'm trying to squeeze it in to the mix.

Awesome, thanks. Always so supportive of the locals. Hope you enjoy it.

I should get all those books I ordered on time now. The only one that wasn't looking likely was The Devil All the Time but now that you've changed the month for it's discussion, it shouldn't be an issue.

The main problem for me with not being involved in book club discussions is that I always wait for the paperbacks to come out to save a few bucks and on top of that, it can take up to a month for them to arrive once I place the order.

Feel free to add to the discussions whenever you can. Even if it is a month or two late. That's why I have the list of passed discussions stickied at the top of the Book Club forum.

Also - Fred Venturini will be participating in the discussion for The Samaritan.

Really everybody owes Richard a beer. He's been calling in his connections and talking to these guys getting them involved. I'm stoked. So I know I thanked you in emails Richard - but Thanks again!

Get him a Kool-Aid instead.

Richard doesn't drink.

Thanks, Pete, my pleasure. I assume you've talked to Ben Tanzer through Brandon? He's here in Chicago, and Brandon and I are reading with him and Lindsay Hunter, as well as Gina Frangello, so I'm sure he'd stop by if you haven't hooked that up yet. I can drop him a line if you need me to.

I actually facebooked Ben. Super cool guy. He's all for it!

And guys - really we owe Richard. He has been awesome. I can't even express how much I appreciate everything he's done.

He has asked Donald Ray Pollock to participate.

And Donald said that he would be happy to!

Hey Richard and Pete,

Very cool on all these hook up's. You're making the next six or seven book club months look very exiting.

And Richard that reading you guys are doing sounds awesome, nowhere near enough of that kind of thing happens around where I live.

my pleasure Pete - so go out and buy Knockemstiff NOW (it's awesome) and then pick up Devil All the Time when it hits - i love DRPs work

thanks voodoo

Loved Knockemstiff. Have been looking forward to Devil All the Time ever since I found out about it.

Brilliant. Beer coming from here in a waterproof jiffy bag. Might be a bit flat, tho', when it gets there...

ha...also pete, you should talk to kasey carpenter and joshua chaplinsky, they're talking to even bigger names than me these days

How will Warmed and Bound work? Really wanna read it, but as a discussion topic other than "Which story did you like?"

-How the book works as a whole vs. individual stories.
-List your top 5/bottom 5.
-Themes or reoccurring elements.