Alphabet
Jazz hands
Pressure
Teacher
Project Hail Mary
We used "Quiet" or "Quietude" for 3 books. Name them (100 per correct answer)
The Cellist of Sarajevo
A Christmas Carol
The Collected Regrets of Clover
What was the oldest book we read this year?
A Christmas Carol (1843)
“Fist my bump.”
Project Hail Mary
Stacy
“When ailing seamen were shielded belowdecks from the adverse elements outside, they were said to be “under the weather.”
The Wager
Stacy & Steven
Improbable
Legs
Quest
Remarkably Bright Creatures
We used "Kill" or "Killing" for 4 books. Name them (100 per correct answer)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
The Cellist of Sarajevo
All the Pretty Horses
The Wager
This year we read 13 books. 7 were written by white men. 5 were written by women. 2 were written by non-white authors.
Which 2 books were written by non-white authors?
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Homegoing
"If you want something you don’t have,” he’d said, “you have to do something you’ve never done.”
The Collected Regrets of Clover
Rachel
“How well I would write if I were not here!”
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Stacy & Tyler
Invisible
Learning
Nightmare
A Christmas Carol
We used "Lost", "Love" , or "Lost Love" for 4 books. Name them (100 per correct answer)
Homegoing (Love)
All the Pretty Horses (Love)
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Lost)
Go as a River (Lost Love)
Which book club had the lowest attendance this year?
Tie between:
I, Robot
Project Hail Mary
(10 attendees)
“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
A Christmas Carol
David
“Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?”
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Steven & Sam
Brain
Humanity
Psychology
I, Robot
We used "Exhaust" , "Exhausting", or "Exhausted" for 5 books. Name them (100 per correct answer)
Homegoing
The Cellist of Sarajevo
All the Pretty Horses
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
The Collected Regrets of Clover
What 3 books did we read this year that were published in 2023?
Go as a River
The Wager
The Collected Regrets of Clover
"You cannot stick a knife in a goat and then say, Now I will remove my knife slowly, so let things be easy and clean, let there be no mess. There will always be blood."
Homegoing
Rachel
"Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, re-created daily. It vanishes far more quickly than he ever would have thought possible."
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Wendy + Steven
Excrutiating
Nail salon
Trauma
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
We used "Death" for 6 books. Name them (100 per correct answer)
Go as a River
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Project Hail Mary
I, Robot
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
The Collected Regrets of Clover
Which book club had the lowest attendance this year?
Go As A River (5 attendees)
"The cruelest walls are made of glass."
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
David
"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real."
All the Pretty Horses
Wendy + David