Richard Osman
Carolyn enjoyed the first Thursday Murder Club and likely will enjoy the second.
May 20th, 2022
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Richard Osman
Carolyn enjoyed the first Thursday Murder Club and likely will enjoy the second.
May 20th, 2022
May 3rd, 2022
Apr 19th, 2022
Peter J. Carroll
Carolyn got stuck on a book that started slow and couldn't make it happen. :disappointed:
Mar 28th, 2022
Peter J. Carroll
Carolyn enjoys staying in touch with her friend Gillian by discussing book selections.
Nov 10th, 2022
Stacey Swann
Carolyn is currently reading Olympus, Texas and finds it a real page-turner.
Jan 4th, 2022
Andy Weir
Carolyn heard great things about Project Hail Mary audiobook, which was a book club pick; she really liked it but others raved about the audio version.
Jul 8th, 2022
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Carolyn will be starting Sabrina & Corina for the next book club.
Nov 22nd, 2021
Nov 22nd, 2021
Augusten Burroughs
Carolyn has been wanting to read Running With Scissors for ages.
Jun 29th, 2022
Jenni Fagan
Carolyn declined discussing Luckenbooth for tomorrow as she hasn't finished it, having read The Swimmers first which threw off her schedule.
Jun 29th, 2022
Betsy Cromer Byars
Carolyn mentioned reading The Swimmers first based on library due dates.
Jun 29th, 2022
Jun 29th, 2022
Peter J. Carroll
Carolyn just got the book on Sunday and is happy to be able to join next month
May 26th, 2022
Peter J. Carroll
Carolyn bought a house in Chapel Hill from Sarah Dessen and her husband in 2012.
May 20th, 2022
Austin Channing Brown
Carolyn enjoyed listening to 'I'm Still Here' and appreciated the author being the narrator of the audiobook.
May 3rd, 2022
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Carolyn found 'Between the World and Me' to be really good and liked that the author narrated the audiobook.
May 3rd, 2022
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Carolyn enjoyed The Great Gatsby, praising its vivid characters and atmospheric setting.
Apr 12th, 2022
Harper Lee
Carolyn found To Kill a Mockingbird to be a classic but didn't elaborate further.
Apr 12th, 2022
Feb 14th, 2022
Byron Barton
Carolyn's favorite construction book is Machines At Work, totally tolerable for reading 6 million times in a row.
Dec 13th, 2021
V. E. Schwab
Carolyn, Harry finds the City of Ghosts series scary, but not enough to stop reading them.
Nov 29th, 2021
Nov 30th, 2021
Carolyn has started to read The Family Chao and hopes to finish it by the book club meeting.
Feb 2nd, 2024
Peter J. Carroll
Carolyn was kind of meh about this book when she read it years ago.
Nov 8th, 2023
SparkNotes Staff, J. K. Rowling
Carolyn enjoys reading Harry Potter and finds it captivating with its magical world and relatable characters.
Feb 24th, 2023
Suzanne Collins
Carolyn mentions The Hunger Games briefly, but does not provide any specific feedback on the book.
Feb 24th, 2023
Chinmayananda Swami.
Carolyn enjoyed reading on her Kindle for hours with a nearly-sleeping baby attached to her in the dark.
Dec 13th, 2022
Dec 13th, 2022
Kazuo Ishiguro
Carolyn is wondering if Klara and the Sun is suitable for a 10-year-old 5th grader.
Aug 12th, 2021
Aug 12th, 2021
Jennifer Egan
Carolyn is currently reading A Visit From the Goon Squad and regrets missing Monday's discussion.
Jun 14th, 2021
Carolyn Warrender
Carolyn is excited and can't wait to read the book.
Apr 27th, 2021
Anthony Marra
Carolyn finished The Tsar of Love and Techno this weekend and started The Midnight Library. Viget Book Club is helping her keep her new year's resolution of reading more books.
Feb 22nd, 2021
Matt Haig
Carolyn started The Midnight Library this weekend. It seems like an interesting read.
Feb 22nd, 2021
Feb 1st, 2021
Nov 30th, 2021
Art Spiegelman
Carolyn is looking forward to joining the next book club meeting as she has been waiting for Maus for a while.
Mar 29th, 2022
Louise Erdrich
Carolyn is just barely started The Night Watchman and having trouble getting into it, may not make it in time for the book club meeting.
Mar 7th, 2022
Veera Hiranandani
Carolyn and Harry are really into _The Night Diary_ after Laura recommended it in their last book club discussion.
Mar 7th, 2022
Feb 7th, 2022
Mario Giordano
Carolyn is partway through Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions, although she's not feeling it as much as _The Thursday Murder Club_.
Feb 7th, 2022
Feb 7th, 2022
Angie Sage
Carolyn loves reading Septimus Heap with Harry and enjoys the strong characters in the series.
Nov 29th, 2021
Angie Sage
Carolyn is considering reading TodHunter Moon to Harry next.
Nov 29th, 2021
Nov 29th, 2021
Nancy Springer
Carolyn describes Enola Holmes as a definite favorite for Harry.
Nov 29th, 2021
J. K. Rowling
Carolyn and Harry have already read Harry Potter together.
Nov 29th, 2021
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams
Carolyn reminisces about reading Little House with Harry when he was younger.
Nov 29th, 2021
Robert Jordan
Carolyn just finished reading the “first” Wheel of Time book out loud to Harry, and it only took them 7 months.
Sep 1st, 2023
Ursula K. Le Guin
Carolyn is excited to read The Lathe of Heaven for book club with Harry.
Sep 1st, 2023
Richard Osman
Carolyn finished the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series over the break.
Jan 3rd, 2023
Robert Jordan
Carolyn started reading the first book in the Wheel of Time series to Harry.
Jan 3rd, 2023
Jan 3rd, 2023
Peter J. Carroll
This is fascinating. I have never read any of his work, and now I'm looking forward even more to reading this one.
Aug 13th, 2021
Peter J. Carroll
Carolyn thinks Harry would enjoy the book recommended by a writing professor. She's intrigued about the recommendation for him.
Aug 13th, 2021
Joshua Ferris
Carolyn finished Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris. It was entertaining, but not a favorite.
Aug 2nd, 2021
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Carolyn is currently reading Purple Hibiscus for August's book club and finds it really good so far.
Aug 2nd, 2021
Dec 2nd, 2022
Peter J. Carroll
Carolyn should consider reading the series as it comes highly recommended.
Nov 29th, 2021
Dave Isay
Carolyn finished Listening is an Act of Love, a compilation of StoryCorps stories from its early years, almost as tear-jerking as audio versions.
Aug 1st, 2022
Sequoia Nagamatsu
Carolyn got a few chapters into How High We Go in the Dark.
Aug 1st, 2022
Peter J. Carroll
Carolyn has read half the book and suggests shifting it to next week.
Aug 30th, 2023
Julia Casterton
Carolyn mentioned that they thought the book on creative writing was an interesting investment/project that the author never actually lived here.
May 20th, 2022
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Carolyn enjoyed the character development and intricate plot twists in The Great Gatsby.
Aug 13th, 2021
Harper Lee
Carolyn found To Kill a Mockingbird to be a powerful and thought-provoking read.
Aug 13th, 2021
Keiko Kasza
Carolyn got a 'lucky day' copy months back with a one-week due date, finding it amusing and checking it back in.
Jan 26th, 2023
Peter J. Carroll
Carolyn mentioned the need to book it back from PTO to make it on time
Jul 24th, 2023
May 18th, 2021
Peter J. Carroll
Carolyn hasn't finished the book yet, suggesting to shift discussion to Thursday at 3:30pm.
Sep 27th, 2022
Lewis Carroll
Carolyn, have you gotten past the 'pool' section in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? There's a significant shift in the book at that point.
Jul 15th, 2022
Feb 2nd, 2022
Apr 21st, 2023
Ahmed I Sultan of the Turks
Carolyn picked up an on-hold copy at the library yesterday.
Nov 1st, 2021
Nov 17th, 2021
Peter J. Carroll
Carolyn and I have the same bookshelf for vinyl records, not books, due to depth problem.
Apr 3rd, 2024
Peter J. Carroll
Carolyn has saved millions by reading books to kids for a decade and now with her insatiable 4th-grader.
May 21st, 2021
Ellsworth Jaeger
Carolyn read the Wildwood trilogy aloud to Harry last year, and they loved it.
Feb 7th, 2022