Books tackled thus far

Okay guys, I'm revamping our blog site a little, to hopefully make it more reader friendly (especially as some of those old synopses we're still using are waaay down at the bottom of the old format). Will try to keep this updated so folks can see where we've been and where we've left to go. But, if not, you can always access this info from the meetup site by looking at all past meetups.

(12/5/09) Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

Copied from: http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9781400096275.html

(11/4/09) Persuasion - Jane Austin

Copied from: http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141907819,00.html

(10/6/09) The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

Copied from: http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780451171351,00.htm

(9/8/09) American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

Copied (in bits) from: http://curtissittenfeld.com/

(8/13/09)The Black Swan by Thomas Mann

Copied from:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Black-Swan/Thomas-Mann/e/9780520070080

(7/20/09) Blind Woman, Sweeping Willow by Haruki Murakami
Copied from: http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9781400096084

(6/22/09) Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Copied from: http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780061139376-0

(6/1/09)The Historian by Elisabeth Kostova
Excerpts copied from: http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1589

(5/12/09)The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman
Excerpts copied from: http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=1594200386

(3/9/09) In the Heart of the Sea:The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex By Nathaniel Philbrick
Copied from: http://www.nathanielphilbrick.com/heartofthesea/

(2/9/09) The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Copied from: http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1964

(1/19/09) Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Copied from: http://www.powells.com/biblio/2-0316921173-2

(12/8/08) We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Copied from http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780452282827

(11/17/08) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Copied from: http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781594489587-0

(10/27/08) The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Copied from: http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=030726419x

(10/6/08) American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Publishers comments copied from: http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0380789035

(9/22/08) Then We Came to the End: A Novel by Joshua Ferris
Copied from: http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9780316016384-0

(9/8/08) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Copied from: http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=HARDCOVER:USED:9781400043392:10.50#synopses_and_reviews

(8/18/08) Three Cups of Tea: by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Copied from: http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780143038252

(7/28/08) Man's search for Meaning: Victor Frankl's
http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780671023379

(7/14/08) The Secret Life of Bees: Sue Monk Kidd
Copied from http://www.suemonkkidd.com/SecretLifeOfBees/

(6/23/08)The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Copied from: http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=HARDCOVER:NEW:9780393060348:23.95#synopses_and_reviews

(6/2/08) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Excerpt from: http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/fiction/fr/1000suns.htm

(5/12/08)The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
Comments provided by: http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-1932416218-0

(4/23/08) Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Copied from: http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0670034711-0

(3/31/08) Survival of the Sickest by Dr. Sharon Moalem, Jonathan Prince
Comments from: http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060889654/Survival_of_the_Sickest/index.aspx

(3/10/08) What is the What by Dave Eggers
Comments found at: http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=HARDCOVER:NEW:9781932416640:26.00#synopses_and_reviews

(2/18/08)Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Comments found at: http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-9781400034680-0

(1/24/08) The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Comments provided by: http://www.powells.com/biblio?PID=27900&cgi=product&isbn=0553288105

(1/10/08) Undaunted Courage, Stephen Ambrose
No synopses, this was a split second decision :-)

(12/6/07) On Beauty, Zadie Smith:
This is an NPR interview with the author that provides an excerpt and a brief summary:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4961669

(11/15/07) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Summary available at: http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9780312422158-0

(10/25/07) The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
Publisher Comments: (copied from http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9780143037149-3)

(10/4/07) 1776, David McCullough
(Back of book) Publisher Comments:
In this stirring book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence — when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.
Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King's men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known.

(9/6/07) Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen :
Summary provided by http://www.saragruen.com/water.html. Check out the site!!

(Aug 15, 2007) Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Detailed summary provided at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces