The Princess Bride

Our next book will be The Princess Bride. It is a humorous fairy tale, hopefully a fun choice for summer reading. The book was, of course, made famous by the movie of the same name. Part of our discussion will involve comparing the book and the movie, so you can watch even if you don't have time to read! (Or, do both!) A few links...

Wikipedia article about the book

Internet movie database article about the movie

Reading group questions

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Here are some links for our next book, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

Amazon.com link

Wikipedia link (caution, contains lots of plot spoilers!)

Author's website (includes a book excerpt and some reading questions)

Reading Group Guides questions

Apparently this book was made into a TV movie at some point, too, but I'm not sure how to get ahold of it. I read Wicked by this same author and really liked it, and enjoyed the musical based on the book as well.

No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Some links about our upcoming book:

Wikipedia's Article about the series

A little snippet about a movie version--have you seen it?

Amazon.com's page--I often enjoy reading the customer reviews

The author's website--above average, and fun to look at!

Reading Group Guides discussion questions (my starting point for our questions)

Three Cups of Tea

As promised in the evite, here is some information about our upcoming book:

http://www.threecupsoftea.com/ The main website promoting the book. There are teen and children's versions of the story too. I'm going to see if the library has the kid's one (good for those of you who need just 32 pages and pictures!)

http://www.threecupsoftea.com/wp-includes/documents/3CTReadingGuide.pdf A reading group guide that will probably provide the basis for many of our discussion questions.

http://www.threecupsoftea.com/wp-includes/documents/3CTQA.pdf An interview with Greg Mortenson

See You Tomorrow!

Hope to see you tomorrow as we discuss "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult. Here is a link to some of the questions we might use in our discussion. Check it out, so you can ask one if I don't!

http://readinggroupguides.com/guides3/my_sisters_keeper1.asp