Winter '12 Book Club Swap

Each season I will list ten books. You will pick one, read it, review it and snail mail the review to your partner. I’ll pick genres/themes for each season, and try to include a variety. This time the theme is BEST OF 2011. The reason for the large choice list is this: if you get a few chapters in and think “Errrr”, then you can pick another book and have another go. You do need to read the whole book for this swap, but like I said, you have plenty of choices. Remember that the point of this is to read books/genres/authors that you otherwise wouldn’t, even if you have to grit your teeth and bear it. You may pick a book you’ve read before, but that kind of defeats the object, right? But, yes, you can do this.

Like for the Winter '11 Book Club, I chose the top 10 non-series, non-ebook-only books of 2011 from Goodreads.com (as of 12/15/11).

Here’s the list :

1. Echo McCool, Outlaw Through Time by Roger K. Driscoll

2. Entwined by Heather Dixon

3. The Traitor's Emblem by Juan Gomez-Jurado

4. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

5. The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen

6. Bossypants by Tina Fey

7. Crossroads by Mary Ting

8. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

9. Angel of Vengence by Trevor Munson

10. Witch Song by Amber Argyle

Your review should be about one side of printer paper. You should include the following points and anything else you wish:

• Which book you picked and why.

• What the book is about – you can copy out the synopsis if you want.

• What you thought of the book (eg. Would you recommend this book? Would you read it again? Would you read more from that author? Or from the same genre? Is it the type of thing you like, or is it totally new for you? Why or why not would you read more like it? etc.)