rileyroo25

I too liked Dorothea in the beginning of the book, and the fact that she was not like other women. However she started to bother me because sometimes she seemed to have contradictory views on issues just for the sake of having a different opinion; she seemed to make up her point of view on the spot, without having ever thought about it before. Particularly when she was with people she disliked. I only read ten chapters though, because the book was hard for me to get into and I had other books to read (just like Jill I have more books I want to read at a given time than is possible). I'm hoping the return to discussing the book might entice me to try continuing.

Can't wait to find out what Oprah's pick is. I don't have any guesses to venture, but I really want to know what type of selection it is, sounds exciting.

jkcokley

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read4life8

Hey producerji,
I just finished "Paradise" by Toni Morrison. What a hard book to understand. I still don't really get it. I'm almost finished with "Poisionwood Bible". What a great book. I'm going to start Mother of Pearl and Open House soon.

Now for my guess as to the new book club pick: I'm thinking that it is going to be one of the 25 books of summer. Maybe the book of poems. I know poetry hasn't been an Oprah Book Club. Or maybe a book of short stories. Those are my two logical guesses.

Titles to suggest: Catcher in the Rye/J.D. Salinger, Da Vinci Code/Dan Brown and The Time Traveler's Wife.

Bye! 20 MORE DAYS TILL THE BOOK CLUB REVEAL!

ronaldash

How do I submit a book to Oprah's book club?

kldors

I would like to suggest a book. "What Came before He Shot Her" by Elizabeth George. It says it is a part of a series but it really is not. There is no reason to know anything about the main characters of the series since this one doesnt focus on any of them. It totally stands alone. It is a book which affected me for weeks. I could not read another book for a long time because I didnt want Joel & Ness to fade from my thoughts. I love this book it is truly unbelievable.

terric411

I think the next book club pick should be Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. My favorite book, and I know Oprah loved Barcelona, so she would LOVE reading this book. It makes you feel like you truly know the city.

hope208

Ok I'm just going to come right out and tell everyone! Its called "Divine Acceptance" by Dorothy W. Parker,PhD (maybe! I'm not sure, but that would be a good one to suggest especially after her interview with Rainn Wilson of SoulPancake. That was one of the most inspiring interviews I've heard in a long time. Oprah was so into it. I've never seen her so intune to a interview as she was with Rainn Wilson. Give us more Oprah the world could use a shift in consciouness!

FYI! I don't really know what the book club pick is either, just thought I'd get in on the comments! Love the book club!

storm387

Blackout Girl: Growing Up and Drying Out in America by Jennifer Storm...this book should be on your show especially given the recent national dialogue about addiction in this country. We keep hearing about addiction but we are missing a key piece of the discussion...the faces and voices of those who have survived addiction and are living wonderful, successful and productive lives in recovery!

readerbud

I am so excited about this! I just "feel in my bones" that the choice is THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett. It is a GREAT read, and is finally gaining the press and readership it deserves.

marie147

I think it's going to be The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. What a marvelous book! You can't go wrong with it.

barbarac9

I can't imagine what it might be and look forward to finding out! A couple books I've read, thoroughly enjoyed, and want to suggest include:
1. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, about a young veterinarian with a traveling circus in the 1920s.
2. Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See, about the life of women in China in the late 1800s-early 1900s, that includes the practice and consequences of foot binding.
3. The Red Tent, that retells the story of Dinah, which is found in the Biblical book of Genesis, Chapter 34, as it may have happened.

bvaughn512

I hope the new book will be The Help by Kathryn Stockett. I haven't read it and having it an Oprah pick would help. I'm reading Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. I have a hard time putting it down as I did with Middlemarch. I want to read more George Eliot, more Dickens, Moonstone by Collins, etc.

read'n4fun

Jill, I am so excited that there will be a new selection soon. I have 5 guesses.

1.) I've sent a few requests for short story collections to be considered. So my 1st guess is that Oprah has selected a collection of short stories from an established author. There are some remarkable ones out there!

2.) I've also sent a suggestion for Jimmy Carter's book "An Hour Before Daylight; Memories of a Rural Boyhood." What an incredible read this was for me.

3.) Maybe my other suggestion about "The Read-Aloud Handbook." This book has been published for decades and even has a chapter about Oprah's contribution to our current love of reading. It is a great guide for parents and other family members. It emphasizes the importance of reading to our children.

4.) A gripping mystery!

5.) A book that we can read with our middle-schoolers or high-schoolers, such as "The Book Thief!"

Those are my guesses! I think they are all different and that we haven't seen any like these before. In any event, I'll be tuning in on the 18th to see what Oprah's selection is! Did I mention that I'm really excited about it?
Thank you!
LeeAnn

P.S. I agree, The Help is a wonderful book and would also be an incredible choice.

katehasl

Sep 4, 2009 8:32 PM

  |   in response to: barbarac9

the above 4 books are super books and the help is definitely on my must read list. i also have olive kitteridge and the heretic's daughter on my desk waiting for me to get to them. so much buzz about olive kitteridge. could that be the one?

cgkeith53

I think "The Help" is a perfect Oprah selection and one of my favorite books ever. And if you read it, Oprah, I just know you will do everything in your power to buy the rights to produce the movie. It is brimming with female characters of all shapes, ages, colors, intellect .... I know you'd love it, Oprah! Do it, please!

deterrent

I would love for bookclubs to get an opportunity to read, "Welford Street Miracles", by R. Merial Martin. This would indeed be a surprise Oprah selection. It is a book readers say they cannot put down. Has been making for great discussions in bookclubs.
For all of us baby boomers who remember the neighborhoods where we never locked doors or windows and everyone knew everyone and took care of everyone. Where neighbors shared food, poultry, gardens, and made sure no house lived wanting for food or love, then you will be taken back in this book to forage up some of your own memories of the 'good times'.
If you liked to discuss "The Shack", then you will love the miracle stories and the main character and how he is easily influenced to maximize his skills and his beliefs. And where that takes him is a revelation that ends in the greatest miracle of all, Well, I guess we have to read the book and discuss it.

tracy5974

I think if you want to make a selection unlike anything you have before you should choose Twilight! I am a 35 year old mother of two small children and had NO interest in reading this "teenager vampire book"...not my style. I usually go for Wally Lamb or Augusten Burroughs, much deeper stuff than Twilight! That being said, what an awesome book! It was so interesting that I read it in a day and a half (and that's an accomplishment with a 3 and a 4 year old at home). I also continued with the series, averaging at about 3 days to a week for the the others. I'm halfway through the final book, Breaking Dawn and can't imagine what life will be like for me without these characters, especially Edward!! So the four main reasons I think Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer should be the newest book club choice is 1) it's a great enertaining and interesting book, 2)It encourages reading because once you have read the 1st one you just HAVE to read the following ones, 3) It's a read that both mothers and daughters can enjoy, something for the family to do together and finally 4) It's part of our culture right now, something to grab the person who isn't interested in reading "the Classics", it's a book people are "talking about"!!

If it's not long enough or "deep enough" then you can make the whole series, all four books as the next selection!

Thanks. Looking forward to Friday's "reveal" show!!

jpanaia49

I think the book should either be "The Help" or "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane". They are both books that you can truly get lost in and with everything going on today, that is a gift...

dustin2009

I hope its, Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin!

josemn

The Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin. I am so very happy for Kathy Griffin's success. I have been a huge fan of hers since 2007. I fell in love with her My Life on the D-List show since Season 3. My Life on the D-List is the best show on TV since Lucille Ball's I Love Lucy. I had no idea this great comedienne went thru hell. In school she was picked on, like me. Even on Larry King Live, Larry King said to Kathy in the past few years Kathy's gone from good to being a great comedienne. There's not alot of people that get Kathy Griffin but I do. She has a good heart and she just wants to make people laugh.

jwilcox922

I hope the books is "Daddy-o's Journey Into The Bygone Years" by Ruth Lee and Janice Wilcox. This is a story about an extraordinary man, whose life has almost spanned a century at a time during the bygone years when families worked and played together. It contains memories of life as it was during the Great Depression or the Hoover Days and World War II. William¿s, aka Daddy-o, relationships with his family, friends and loves combined with the stories of his hard work and mischievous adventures all are interesting reading. He raised thirteen children in a typical middle class family setting passing on his ¿life skills¿ to them.

sharonasun

I am hoping and praying the book will be Sunology - A Guide to Source Connection!!!This is a very valuable book because it describes a person's personality to a "T" and if its principles are popularized and used, it will help everyone understand and accept one another a lot easier and better.

<3 S

producerji

Sep 10, 2009 10:51 PM

  |   in response to: ronaldash

For all you writers out there who have the same question -- how to submit a book to our book club -- please see my latest blog post for your answer!

producerji

Sep 10, 2009 10:52 PM

  |   in response to: terric411

"Shadow of the Wind" did make me see Barcelona in a new way -- I think it might be my new favorite city (other than Chicago, of course)!

producerji

Sep 10, 2009 11:00 PM

  |   in response to: barbarac9

Well, I can't say what the title is or isn't... but personally, I really loved reading "Snowflower and the Secret Fan." I've recommended the novel to family and friends and for those of you who haven't read it, you're missing out!

tortoise5

Sep 11, 2009 2:33 AM

  |   in response to: producerji

There is a new book that compares infidelity to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The book is called Post Infidelity Stress Disorder (PISD) Another way of saying "pissed." I thought I was going crazy after living with an unfaithful husband. There were flashbacks, nightmares, trust issues, depression etc. This was 20 years later and still suffering these symptoms. The book puts a name to the suffering of infedlity. We get angry at ourselves, our spouses, take it out on our children, friends because we are PISD. I learned that in order to move on I had to learn to release the anrgy and move towards forgivness. Not any easy thing to do when you're so angry. The author was a Catholic Priest, now married and he talks about his own feelings when he left the church for a woman. His own guilt about being unfaithful to the Church. He reccomends many steps in dealing with these emotions clearly and he using couple throughout and shows the effects an unfaithful partner can cause. It' a short powerful read.

mihada77

For all you Fantasy/Fiction fans, I would like to suggest a book entitled "Rise of the Bludgens: The 4th Breed" by Marcus Redgrave. I read this book and I couldn't put it down! It has magic and out-of-this-world characters in it.

livehappy4

I think The Help is a fabulous book!

I'd also like to recommend my book, Megan's Way. It's a literary fiction novel with a paranormal twist. A mother's journey, a daughter's will to survive, and a circle of friends shrouded in secrets. It explores the depth of the mother-daughter bond, the intricacies of friendships (male and female), and the possibilities that connect us to the afterlife.

livehappy4

I'd like to suggest The Help, by Kateryn Stockett, or Megan's Way, by Melissa Foster:-) That's me!

tuddee

I sincerely hope it's Kathy Griffin's "Official Book Club Selection"!

kronos

While the most obvious choice would be "The Help" or "Olive Kitteridge", I'm wondering if Oprah picked the unique "Selected Works of T.S. Spivet" by Reif Larsen. It would be very interesting to hear this author interviewed to discover his out-of-the-box approach to writing this exceptional fictional work. I'm just wondering if this one-of-a-kind critically acclaimed yet relatively undiscovered work could be "IT".

I agree with the suggestion of Jim Trelease as an Oprah show guest and Oprah magazine subject. His Read Aloud Handbook has been the Gold Standard for years. He is a dynamic & compelling speaker. I had the priviledge of attending one of his lectures 15 years ago, & it was transformational in many ways. He is a very wise humanitarian. He left his professional career as he discovered his true passion and the rest is history. His message goes beyond reading aloud, to educational issues and contemporary social issues. As an educator herself, Oprah would be fascinated talking with Jim Trelease.

By the way, I give Jim Trelease's "Read Aloud Handbook" to every new Parent & Grandparent I know. Everyone knows what I'm bringing to the Baby Shower!

kmapierce

Hi Oprah's Kind Producers,

I follow your Oprah Book Blub suggestions and love the books you suggest.
I just finished "Eat, Pray, Love". A fabulous Read. I would like to pass this on to Oprah...it's mine, taken from one of my books I have written, soon to be published. It always reminds me of her. I think it's fitting, as she always encourages all of us women to reach and hope beyond our personal limits, and to inspire eachother. And as Autumn approaches, we should all remember to let our colors shine in the wind...best to all the readers at Oprah and to all the staff there.

~ Namaste

Dance the September (copyrighted)
by K. Anthony Pierce
Oprah Personal Blog: from "The Zen of Your Day" by kmapierce

Autumn has no boundaries
or editors
to challenge her colors,
no publishers to object
to her form
and substance.

autumn is her own woman,
fearless
and splendid.
she sheds her layers to the wind,

her own silent climax

of self.

kronos

Could this book be "IT"?

A publishing phenomenon just like Harry Potter but for adults, "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" has been published in thirty-five languages, in over twenty-five countries. It has been a bestseller in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, South Korea, and America. It was originally written in French by Muriel Barbery & sold in France.

Just finished "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" for my book club. Set in an elegant Paris hotel, it tells the story of the portly concierge Renee, who secretly is a ferocious autodidact that devours art, philosophy, music & Japanese culture and the secretly super-intelligent 13-year-old Paloma. They are brought together by a new wealthy Japanese tenant.

"Both [of the book's protagonists] create eloquent little essays on time, beauty and the meaning of life, Renee with erudition and Paloma with adolescent brio." ----The New York Times

What an extraordinary read----just exceptional!!!!

thatgrrrl

I just finished Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Day the Falls Stood Still and loved it. A really touching story on many levels.

pollardsp

I just received a copy of Michelle Muir's new book "Nuff Said". It is a book of poetry and includes a CD of her performing some of her poems to music. Listening to "A Sunday Kind of Love" is so moving and sexy, it is just as romantic as putting on your favourite music CD. It is an exceptional read.