Reading List 2008

Our Park Lake Page Turners began in January of 2008 so I am WAY behind in starting a blog! I think I will use this first post to blitz through that first year. Here are the books we chose in the order we rated them, least favorite first:

• The Manny by Holly Peterson  1.8
• Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier  2.5
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert   2.8
• Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen  2.8
• Sister Mine by Tawni O'Dell  3.3
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult  3.5
• Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy  3.5
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards  3.6
• The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian  3.7
• Marley and Me by John Grogan  4.0
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen  4.8

If memory serves me (it doesn't always these days!), we started the year with Water... and loved it so much---nothing else came close to measuring up!
Eat, Pray... was one we didn't much care for because we thought the main character was too self-absorbed. Later on some us saw the movie and decided we liked it better and enjoyed Julia Roberts as Elizabeth.
Though we didn't love Thirteen... most of us were glad we read it. We learned a lot about the Cherokees.
The Double... was interesting, kept referring to or mirroring The Great Gatsby which most of us could not remember. We thought perhaps we should read the latter and then reread Bohjalian's book. We actually did read The Great Gatsby in 2011. Wonder if any of us reread The Double....---I know I didn't.
Marley... was just a fun read, hilarious in parts!
The Memory Keeper's... had a gripping plot but a rather dark subject.
The others were not very memorable except The Manny and that's because we still use it as a standard for a bad book!