"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." -- Francis Bacon

Mostly, We Eat


What We Read/Eat

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Current Selection
Date: 2010-10-02
Title: The Cave
Author:Jose Saramago
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Mary & Kevin
Write-up: None

Date: 2010-06-19
Title: Remembering Babylon
Author:David Malouf
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Kerstin & Tony
Food Theme: TBD
Write-up: None

Date: 2010-05-01
Title: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Author:Muriel Barbery
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Food Theme: French peasant food
Write-up: None

Date: 2010-01-30
Title: Waiting
Author:Ha Jin
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Beth
Food Theme: Chinese
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2009-11-14
Title: Darkness at Noon
Author:Arthur Koestler
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Lynn and Jim
Food Theme: Russian peasant food
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2009-09-12
Title: American Pastoral
Author:Philip Roth
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Mallary and Tom
Food Theme: rustic or country food
Write-up: None

Date: 2009-07-11
Title: Good Behavior
Author:Molly Keane
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Mary and Kevin
Food Theme: food you eat when you're in denial
Write-up: None

Date: 2009-04-18
Title: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Author:Junot Diaz
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal and Ellie
Food Theme: Caribbean
Write-up: None

Date: 2009-02-07
Title: Fieldwork: A Novel
Author:Mischa Berlinski
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Kerstin and Tony
Food Theme: Thai
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2008-12-08
Title: The Road
Author:Cormac McCarthy
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Lynn and Jim
Food Theme: Camp Food and Beyond
Write-up: None

Date: 2008-10-04
Title: When We Were Romans
Author:Matthew Kneale
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Mallary and Tom
Food Theme: Italian
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2008-08-02
Title: What is the What
Author:Dave Eggers
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal and Ellie
Food Theme: Foods you can eat while walking
Write-up: None

Date: 2008-06-07
Title: The Sheltering Sky
Author:Paul Bowles
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Mary and Kevin
Food Theme: North African
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2008-04-05
Title: Catch-22
Author:Joseph Heller
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Kerstin and Tony
Food Theme: Italian
Write-up: None

Date: 2008-02-09
Title: Man Gone Down
Author:Michael Thomas
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Kerstin & Tony
Food Theme: Brazilian
Write-up: None

Date: 2007-12-15
Title: The Assigned Visit
Author:Shelly Fraser Mickle
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Lynn & Jim
Food Theme: southern and Boston foods
Write-up: None

Date: 2007-09-29
Title: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Author:Carson McCullers
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Food Theme: southern diner food
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2007-07-28
Title: A Fine Balance
Author:Rohinton Mistry
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Hal and Ellie
Food Theme: Indian
Write-up: None

Date: 2007-05-12
Title: The Emperor's Children
Author:Claire Messud
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Mary and Kevin
Food Theme: foods that pretend to be something else
Write-up: None

Date: 2007-03-03
Title: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Author:Alison Bechdel
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Food Theme: shiva foods
Write-up: None

Date: 2007-02-03
Title: The Echo Maker
Author:Richard Powers
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Food Theme: comfort foods you don't recognize
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2006-12-02
Title: Candide
Author:Voltaire
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Kerstin & Tony
Write-up: None

Date: 2006-09-30
Title: The Shadow of the Wind
Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Lynn & Jim
Food Theme: Tapas
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2006-07-15
Title: The History of Love: A Novel
Author:Nicole Krauss
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Mary & Kevin
Food Theme: eastern european foods
Write-up: None

Date: 2006-05-06
Title: The Kite Runner
Author:Khaled Hosseini
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Food Theme: Middle Eastern foods
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2006-01-07
Title: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Write-up: None

Date: 2005-09-24
Title: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Author:J. K. Rowling
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Food Theme: food with memories
Write-up: None

Date: 2005-07-16
Title: Small Town Odds
Author:Jason Headley
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Kerstin & Tony
Food Theme: breakfast food
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2005-05-14
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author:Mark Twain
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Food Theme: southern home cookin'
Write-up: None

Date: 2005-01-15
Title: My Name is Red
Author:Orhan Pamuk
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Greg and Deirdre
Write-up: None

Date: 2004-10-09
Title: Wicked: The Life and Times of the ...
Author:Gregory Maguire
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Kerstin and Tony
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2004-07-24
Title: My Antonia
Author:Willa Cather
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2004-05-22
Title: Lucky Jim
Author:Kingsley Amis
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Write-up: Yes

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2004-04-03
Title: The Book of Salt : A Novel
Author:Maxine Truong
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Greg & Deirdre
Food Theme: French or salty
Write-up: Yes

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2004-01-24
Title: Love in the Time of Cholera
Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Kerstin & Tony
Write-up: None

Date: 2003-11-15
Title: Motherless Brooklyn
Author:Jonathan Lethem
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Food Theme: sandwiches
Write-up: Yes

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2003-09-20
Title: The Life of Pi
Author:Yann Martel
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Mary
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2003-07-12
Title: Midnight's Children
Author:Salman Rushdie
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal and Ellie
Write-up: None

Date: 2003-04-12
Title: Leviathan
Author:Paul Auster
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Kerstin & Tony
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2003-01-25
Title: The Winter of Our Discontent
Author:John Steinbeck
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Tom and Mallary
Food Theme: Italian
Write-up: None

Date: 2002-12-14
Title: The Lovely Bones
Author:Alice Sebold
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Hal and Ellie
Write-up: None

Date: 2002-10-12
Title: Mystic River
Author:Dennis Lehane
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Kerstin and Tony
Food Theme: Flat and Point-y foods
Write-up: Yes

Date: 2002-05-18
Title: The Turn of the Screw
Author:Henry James
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal and Ellie
Food Theme: foods requiring constant vigilance
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2002-04-13
Title: The Human Stain
Author:Philip Roth
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Mary
Food Theme: foods that leave a stain
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2002-01-26
Title: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Author:Haruki Murakami
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Food Theme: an amalgam of subthemes
Write-up: Yes

Date: 2001-09-15
Title: The Intuitionist
Author:Colson Whitehead
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal and Ellie
Food Theme: foods that give you a lift
Write-up: Yes

Date: 2001-07-21
Title: The Comforters
Author:Muriel Spark
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal and Ellie
Food Theme: foods made up of other foods
Write-up: Yes

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2001-05-12
Title: Till We Have Faces
Author:C. S. Lewis
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Mary
Food Theme: Greek
Write-up: None

Date: 2001-03-31
Title: Off Keck Road
Author:Mona Simpson
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Kerstin and Tony
Food Theme: interesting foods that other people eat
Write-up: Yes

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2000-11-04
Title: The Catcher In The Rye
Author:J. D. Salinger
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Food Theme: foods that aren't phony
Write-up: Yes

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2000-09-16
Title: White Teeth
Author:Zadie Smith
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Food Theme: mixed ethnic foods
Write-up: Yes

Date: 2000-07-15
Title: Into The Forest
Author:Jean Hegland
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Kerstin & Tony
Food Theme: food you have on-hand
Write-up: Yes

Date: 2000-05-13
Title: A Lesson Before Dying
Author:Ernest Gaines
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Food Theme: Cajun & Southern
Write-up: Yes

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 2000-03-18
Title: Things Fall Apart
Author:Chinua Achebe
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): June & Kevin
Food Theme: African
Write-up: Yes

Date: 2000-01-22
Title: An Instance of the Fingerpost
Author:Iain Pears
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Kerstin & Tony
Food Theme: English; conspiracy
Write-up: Yes

Date: 2000-01-20
Title: The Poisonwood Bible
Author:Barbara Kingsolver
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Food Theme: packaged food
Write-up: Yes

Date: 1999-10-16
Title: Home at the End of the World
Author:Michael Cunningham
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Food Theme: Home cooking
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 1999-08-07
Title: Mrs. Dalloway
Author:Virginia Woolf
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): June & Kevin
Food Theme: stream of appetizers
Write-up: None

Date: 1999-05-01
Title: Song of Solomon
Author:Toni Morrison
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Food Theme: Soul food
Write-up: None

Date: 1999-02-27
Title: Memoir from Antproof Case
Author:Mark Helprin
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): June & Kevin
Food Theme: South American
Write-up: None

Date: 1998-12-12
Title: Perfect Agreement
Author:Michael Downing
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Kirsten & Tony
Food Theme: Shaker breakfast
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 1998-10-03
Title: Edwin Mullhouse...
Author:Steven Millhauser
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Food Theme: foods you eat like a kid
Write-up: None

Date: 1998-08-01
Title: Sense and Sensibility
Author:Jane Austen
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Food Theme: English country picnic
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 1998-05-16
Title: Cold Mountain
Author:Charles Frazier
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Mary
Food Theme: Middle Eastern
Write-up: None

Date: 1998-03-14
Title: Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Author:Michael Dorris
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): June & Kevin
Food Theme: fusion foods
Write-up: None

Date: 1998-01-17
Title: Heat and Dust
Author:Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Food Theme: food from the colonies
Write-up: None

Date: 1997-10-18
Title: Bright Angel Time
Author:Martha McPhee
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Kerstin & Tony
Food Theme: hippie foods
Write-up: None

Date: 1997-07-27
Title: Stones From the River
Author:Ursula Hegi
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Food Theme: Small German foods
Write-up: None

Date: 1997-05-30
Title: Last Orders
Author:Graham Swift
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): June & Kevin
Food Theme: Memorial Day foods
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 1997-04-05
Title: Pudd'nhead Wilson
Author:Mark Twain
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Food Theme: Southern
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 1997-01-25
Title: A Handful of Dust
Author:Evelyn Waugh
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Tony & Kerstin
Food Theme: Indian
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 1996-10-19
Title: Fifth Business
Author:Robertson Davies
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): June & Kevin
Food Theme: Foods with a filling or secret ingredient
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 1996-07-27
Title: Too Loud a Solitude
Author:Bohumil Hrabal
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Food Theme: subversive and oppressive foods
Write-up: None

Date: 1996-06-07
Title: In the Lake of the Woods
Author:Tim O'Brien
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Food Theme: Vietnamese
Write-up: None

Date: 1996-04-13
Title: Snow Falling on Cedars
Author:David Guterson
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Food Theme: Japanese
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 1996-02-03
Title: Morality Play
Author:Barry Unsworth
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Mary
Food Theme: Vietnamese/Thai
Write-up: None

Date: 1995-12-01
Title: Stone Diaries
Author:Carol Shields
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Kevin & June
Food Theme: Chinese
Write-up: None

Date: 1995-08-26
Title: Optimist's Daughter
Author:Eudora Welty
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Kevin & June
Food Theme: veg and cheese strudel
Write-up: None

Date: 1995-06-24
Title: Confederacy of Dunces
Author:John Kennedy Toole
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Food Theme: Mexican
Write-up: None

Date: 1995-05-13
Title: The English Patient
Author:Michael Ondaatje
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Beth
Food Theme: Italian-Pasta
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 1995-02-04
Title: The Shipping News
Author:E. Annie Proulx
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Write-up: None

Date: 1994-12-03
Title: Paris Trout
Author:Pete Dexter
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Write-up: None

Date: 1994-09-24
Title: Rabbit, Run
Author:John Updike
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Bob
Food Theme: Italian
Write-up: None

Date: 1994-07-23
Title: Affliction
Author:Russell Banks
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Tony & Kerstin
Food Theme: Jamaican
Write-up: None

Date: 1994-05-21
Title: Children of Men
Author:P.D. James
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Write-up: None

Date: 1994-04-16
Title: The Bean Trees
Author:Barbara Kingsolver
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Kevin & June
Food Theme: Quiche
Write-up: None

Highly Recommended for Reading Groups
Date: 1994-01-24
Title: The Remains of the Day
Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Tom & Mallary
Food Theme: Foccacia
Write-up: None

Date: 1993-10-30
Title: Angle of Repose
Author:Wallace Stegner
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Write-up: None

Date: 1993-07-25
Title: The Tax Inspector
Author:Peter Carey
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Write-up: None

Date: 1993-05-08
Title: Bone
Author:Faye Ng
Reader's Guide: No
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Write-up: None

Date: 1993-02-01
Title: All the Pretty Horses
Author:Cormac McCarthy
Reader's Guide: Yes
Host(s): Hal & Ellie
Write-up: None


Our Next Book



The Cave
by Jose Saramago

Meeting Information

Date: October 2, 2010
Host: Mary & Kevin
Food Theme: TBD