Unscheduled post! Ah! The anarchy! It's anarchy for a good cause, I promise.
I was "talking" on Facebook to a college friend who was looking for some specific books.
(Im lying to you guys already, I saw a Facebook conversation between her and her sister about how they were struggling to find books to read and I butted my nose into their conversation. Because I'm nosy. Anyway.)
So it turns out that my friend and her family have a family book club (which I think is adorable). However they are having a hard time finding books to read because they have a certain set of criteria.
They look for books that are:
-Usually fiction (though I think if it was a nonfiction that read more like a novel it would be ok)
-As minimal cursing as possible
-No graphic sex scenes (I think implied sex is more ok)
-Nothing super disturbing for subject matter (rape, torture, cannibalism)
It's kind of a lot of criteria but if I was in a book club with my family I wouldn't want to be reading anything with super graphic sex scenes though either.
Some books they've read in the past that have worked well are:
-Seabiscuit
-Safely Home
-Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
-The Guernsey Potato/Literary Society book
I put my thinking cap on and these are the books that I came up with:
-Rebecca
-Watership Down
-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
-My Antonia
-Death Comes for the Archbishop
-Kisses for Katie
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Fahrenheit 451 (though book burning is disturbing subject matter!)
-A Natural History of Dragons
-A Little Princess
-Ender's Game
What else can you guys think of to add to the list? Mine tends to skew a little more classic so if anyone has more modern suggestions that would be good too. Please leave recommendations in the comments and I will pass them along to my friend.
Thank you so much for your help fellow people of the books!
Also, happy FIRST DAY OF SPRING!
Home Front by Kristin Hannah
ReplyDeletea new york times #1 best seller no less! nice!
DeleteKidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
ReplyDeleteThe Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson
Sitka - Louis L'amour
I will think more on this.
Adventure and westerns, excellent. Thanks for the continuing ponderings!
DeleteI love this idea and might try it when my kids are a little older. How about some Sherlock Holmes, like The Hound of the Baskervilles?
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