Books & Bitәs is a book club for women and girls ages 12 and up.  We ask that ages 12-15 be accompanied by a mom or substitute mom.  We meet one Sunday a month (usually the third Sunday at 2:30 [New time starting in September 2010]) in the Markham Room at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Farmington, Michigan to discuss that month’s selected book.  We eat snacks, some knit or do other handcrafts, and we laugh.  We hope you will consider joining us!

A special note to parents of our younger members:  The books that we read and discuss are selected by the group.  We do not guarantee that a book that we are reading is appropriate for all readers.  We encourage mothers and fathers to read the books to be sure they are appropriate for their daughter.  

Questions or comments?  Wish to be added to our email reminders? 

Contact us at books.bites@gmail.com.

Our November meeting of Books & Bitәs will be November 21 at 2:30pm in the Markham Room.  Please read our November selection, A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle.

Our past book selections:

November 2010:  A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

October 2010:  Ariel by Grace Tiffany

September 2010:  The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. 

August 2010:  To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

July 18 2010:  The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

June 2010:  Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

May 2010:  Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

March/April 2010:  Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

February 2010:  As You Wish by Jackson Pearce

January 2010:  Stealing Buddah’s Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen.

December 2009:  Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck 

November 2009:  The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

October 2009:  Catch-22 by Joseph Heller   

September 2009:  Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

August 2009:  The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

July 2009:  The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

June 2009:  Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

May 2009:  Elsewhere by

April 2009:  Ordinary People by Judith Guest

March 2009:  Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic

February 2009:  The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Book 1) by Alexander McCall Smith

January 2009:  Paper Towns by John Green

December 2008:  Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

November 2008:  Three Cups of Tea:  one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time by Greg Mortenson

October 2008:  The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

September 2008:  The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

August 2008:  The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

July 2008:  The Princess Bride by William Goldman

May 2008:  Saving Zoe by Alyson Noel

April 2008:  The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

March 2008:  Life of Pi by Yana Martel

February 2008:  The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E. L. Konigsburg

January 2008:  My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

December 2007:  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

November 2007:  The Freedom Writers Diary By Erin Gruwell

October 2007:  Godless by Pete Hautman

September 2007:  A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass

August 2007:  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

July 2007:  The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

June 2007:  The Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman

May 2007:  The 5 People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

April 2007:  Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney

March 2007:  The Giver by Lois Lowery 

February 2007:  Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

Other Books that some of us like or have suggested:

(some may be inappropriate for those under 18)

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch

The Shack by William P. Young

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Kabul Beauty School by Ohlson Rodriquez

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig

Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Becoming Naomi Leon by Patricia Munoz Ryan