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Post by Sketcher2 on Feb 5, 2017 6:01:37 GMT
Hi Administrator/Hercules,
On the old site I tried to read a fiction book with you but was unsuccessful. I am now on my fourth book reading fiction. I have finished Confessions of a Shopaholic, Twilight, Love Warrior and now on The Girl on the Train. I was wondering if anyone else is interested in joining a book club with us again. To try reading a book again. Hopefully it is a popular book which can be accessed thru the library as I am low on funds to buy a book. I have two suggestions for the first book if anyone is interested. I know this much is true by Wally Lamb is about twin brothers one of which has schizophrenia. The other is Made You Up by Francesca Zappia, about a girl with delusions. Please look up these two books and vote which book you would like to read for our book club here. Then we will allow 2-3 weeks for people to buy the book or borrow it from the library. Then we can discuss the book together. Then after this 101 book club we will move on to the second book, picked by another member until we have gone thru all members in the book club's suggestions of books to read. I prefer not to read sci-fi or fantansy books but it will be up to the book club members what type of books they want to read.
I hope we can do this and give it a chance to start again as I am very sorry I couldn't participate with you guys last time.
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Post by Hercules on Feb 5, 2017 11:30:12 GMT
Hi Administrator/Hercules, On the old site I tried to read a fiction book with you but was unsuccessful. I am now on my fourth book reading fiction. I have finished Confessions of a Shopaholic, Twilight, Love Warrior and now on The Girl on the Train. I was wondering if anyone else is interested in joining a book club with us again. To try reading a book again. Hopefully it is a popular book which can be accessed thru the library as I am low on funds to buy a book. I have two suggestions for the first book if anyone is interested. I know this much is true by Wally Lamb is about twin brothers one of which has schizophrenia. The other is Made You Up by Francesca Zappia, about a girl with delusions. Please look up these two books and vote which book you would like to read for our book club here. Then we will allow 2-3 weeks for people to buy the book or borrow it from the library. Then we can discuss the book together. Then after this 101 book club we will move on to the second book, picked by another member until we have gone thru all members in the book club's suggestions of books to read. I prefer not to read sci-fi or fantansy books but it will be up to the book club members what type of books they want to read. I hope we can do this and give it a chance to start again as I am very sorry I couldn't participate with you guys last time. I will participate but only if we get at least another committed person. My other criteria is I would like to allow a fair amount of time to read each book as I have trouble making time in my life to read. All for now Hercules |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2017 18:37:57 GMT
Hi
Please count me in, I have wanted to join a book club and I am interested in both books you mention Fleurette...probably Made you Up would be my pick but they are both relevant to me.
Great idea.
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Post by Sketcher2 on Feb 5, 2017 19:24:18 GMT
So is there anyone else who wants to join us? Hercules you have yet to say which book interest you more. I am great with either book so we will see if anybody else joins us. Lets give them a week to decide then we can start reading.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2017 19:25:03 GMT
Perhaps we could read something pertinent to schizophrenia but from the literary mainstream. I'd like us to take apart "A Beautiful Mind" by Sylvia Nasar:
A Beautiful Mind: The Life Of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash is a biographical account of his rescue from extreme adversity by selfless, enduring love. He overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles and went on to win the Nobel Prize. It begins by tracing Nash's childhood, his subsequent ascent to the top as a genius mathematician, and his time at the Princeton University and MIT. It also covers his family life and his association with the RAND Corporation involving economic theory. Through this connection, he developed a delusional belief that he was becoming a covert intelligence operative. The author goes on to explore the near-total disintegration of Nash's life and career under the onslaught of a schizophrenic collapse. She discusses how his prolonged mental illness drew him away from his beloved world of mathematics into a punishing world of darkness, destruction, and loss. In an inexplicable turn of events, the healing, nurturing love of woman brought Nash back from the abyss of madness. With the unwavering support of his selfless companion and the entire mathematics community, Nash returned to a life and career in academia and even went on to win the Nobel Prize for Economics. The book highlights themes like Nash's pioneering contribution to game theory, the intriguing mysteries of the human mind, the fine line between genius and insanity, and the healing power of love. It has received much critical acclaim. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography (1998), a Pulitzer Prize nomination, and a Rhône-Poulenc Prize nomination.
Amazon has 29 used from $3.81. The book's past popularity should ensure library inventories. The above highlighted sections reflect recurring themes of interest both personally, on the site and culturally, within the present milieu. I'd be happy to explore this book, it would be timely...economics is (supposedly) Trump's forte....and lots of people are wondering if he's nuts.
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Post by mike412 on Feb 5, 2017 22:17:22 GMT
I have a copy of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo I've been meaning to get around to reading some time, I have more than a few books I've yet to read I've picked up at used book stores, flea markets etc.
Not sure I'd want to join a book club and read a book I don't really want to though
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Post by Hercules on Feb 6, 2017 1:13:00 GMT
Bah the Internet ate my reply.
The Zappia book please.
As a guideline lets not always make the books about mental health as they will bring back bad memories for me.
Please let me know when the decision is finalised and I will purchase.
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Post by Hercules on Feb 6, 2017 1:16:05 GMT
"Then we will allow 2-3 weeks for people to buy the book or borrow it from the library. Then we can discuss the book together. "
Lets make it 4-6 weeks if possible. As we need to finish reading the book before discussing it...that will take me a few weeks on top of purchasing it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 4:56:23 GMT
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Post by Hercules on Feb 6, 2017 6:57:42 GMT
OK please confirm Fleurette since you are in charge of this...and confirm when we will recovene - I would like a month at least. If we get through 10-12 books per year that is plenty. Last year I only read 3 books.
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Post by Sketcher2 on Feb 6, 2017 15:11:48 GMT
Ok it is Made You Up and we can start getting our copy of the book or read it online from the link that was provided. I would like to wait until next Saturday to start reading since we will see if anyone else wants to join us. If this is not a book you want to read, feel free to join us next time when someone else from the book club will come up with two titles and the members can vote on the book to read. Please reply here when you have picked up the book and will start reading. Do we want to do our discussion every few chapters or what until we have finished the whole book? Please let me know your preference and we can each come up with a question to ask the group as a part of our discussion. Alternatively we can find an internet source of book club questions and go from there. Let me know if you'd rather make our own questions for the discussions or not. How does four weeks sound for the time frame to read this book? Hercules, please advice here as I am reading other books as well and would like to read "Made You Up." with those other books. Of course we are not going to read something mental health related every time but these books could be the starting point. I understand that sometimes it is better to get away from these serious topics but fiction will give us another perspective. I am glad we found a site to read the book for free. That way all of us can start whenever we want.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 16:14:39 GMT
This came from the tail end of Chapter One:
"The doctors were oodles of help, but I developed my own system for figuring out what was real and what wasn’t. I took pictures. Over time, the real remained in the photo while the hallucinations faded away. I discovered what sorts of things my mind liked to make up. Like billboards whose occupants wore gas masks and reminded passersby that poison gas from Hitler’s Nazi Germany was still a very real threat.
I didn’t have the luxury of taking reality for granted. And I wouldn’t say I hated people who did, because that’s just about everyone. I didn’t hate them. They didn’t live in my world. But that never stopped me from wishing I lived in theirs."
I think I can read this book. Nice going Sue...finding it.
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Post by diesel on Feb 6, 2017 16:48:02 GMT
This is great Fleurette! Great for increasing your over all vocabulary. I loved reading but ever since guitar came into my life I don't read period. I would love to join but can't be committed. When I read I did read that book Wally Lamb wrote. We have over 2000 books in our library. A lot of it is inherited from my FIL's book collection.
I need to go to the gym before I do anything else.
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Post by David on Feb 6, 2017 21:31:32 GMT
I also welcome this topic of yours Fleurette...
Always nice observing you engaging...
in whatever form..
for you and I go back more than eleven years< David
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 22:52:54 GMT
Hi Diesel
I am starting at the gym next week, the doctor has cleared me for water exercise so I will go everyday at the same time and no doubt meet the same Nannas there as it is gentle water exercise...but as I am losing weight I am now ready to get in the pool again....trivia, the gentleman that takes me out is a musician and he performs at old folks homes and every community event, I think he was born with a guitar in his hand....my piano is still a dust collector as I have to relearn how to use this broken hand and make music not noise....I hope down the track you may find a book that interests you.
Fleurette and Hercs...I think 12 books a year is brilliant...thank you Fleurette for giving us this new avenue of interaction...yes you have been a member as long as I have.
Keith....please dont post the end of the book you larrikan....lol...xxx
BTW I hated a beautiful mind, when I was dx with scz people said oh Suzy you must watch a beautiful mind....and I did and in the end he is sitting on the porch listening to a radio...I hated that...just hated it and I dont use that word very often but I thought if my life is going to end up with days of doing nothing listening to the radio I don't want to live, I think the film hours is far more realistic...I can truly relate to Nicole Kidman's part in it and the chap who once a year people remember on his birthday....last year only one of my kids remembered my birthday and when I said something to eldest daughter she arrived with flowers, pulled out of my driveway and crashed her truck into a little car...a very expensive bunch of flowers.
David maybe you could consider joining us?
Looking forward to this group and thanks again Fleurette...
Yours in Friendship
Sue
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