Book Association: Life of Pi

So this month we are reading The Life of Pi by Yann Martell, so that lead me to wonder...any other classic animal books out there for adult readers?  Why do we let the kids have all the fun with Charlotte's Web or Black Beauty?

So here's what I came up with.

Call of the Wild by Jack London

The other wolf/dog book London wrote

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The source of farmers' nightmares ever since

Aesop's Fables by Aesop

Too bad Aesop didn't profit like Disney did when they had animals teach morals to people

Jaws by Peter Benchley

 Remember "We're going to need a bigger boat"? *

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

I think Captain Ahab should follow Quint and Brody's lead about that boat 

Next week on Book Association: Life of Pi Part 2 - The Nautical Round

*yeah I know that was the movie version, but creative license and all that.

Ep #5 The Age of Innocence

Ep # 5 - The Age of Innocence

On this episode, Jeane and Karena announce a new Gametator, discuss January's selection, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, reveal the poll results for April's book and the poll choices for May's book to movie month.

Websites That Thrill Us

• Kickstarter for Fantasy Author Calendar
• One Story
• Library Thing
• Goodreads vs Library Thing

Literary Links - February 4th edition

Your Monday reading un-assignment:

• English literature's 50 key moments Not a comprehensive list by any means, but what do you think? 

• 28 Days of Children's Literature for Black History Month  Very awesome. 

• Sexy Role Playing Book Groups? As a moderator of CWAtC I can't decide if I'm jealous because we totally could have been doing this (Scarlett and Rhett role playing?) or weirded out. I think I'm going with weirded out

• Literary Females to have as as your BFF So do you pick Athena from The Odyssey or Cindy Lou Who from How the Grinch Stole Christmas? 

Friday @ the Forums

It's February! We have some new forums open. Go check them out!

• Life of Pi: Part 1, Chapter 1 - 18  where you can talk about the beginning of this month's selection.
• February Book Selections Have some suggestions we should put on the shelves for our polls? Tell our Shelf-tator, Angie.
• Where's Your Bookmark? Share the books you're picking up this month. 
• Literary Cafe: Hungry? Go play our Game-tator Laura's game where titles and authors can be the main course.
• Classic Author Challenge Do you want to challenge yourself? How about reading 26 classic books by 26 different authors between Jan 1, 2013 and Dec 31, 2013? 

See ya on the forums!

Podcast Live Tweeting!

Want to be a part of our next podcast? We will be live tweeting this Saturday, February 2nd at 4pm PST. @cwatc_bookclub. We will be discussing January's book, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Use #cwatcpodcast so we can get as many people involved as possible. 

See you on the forums!

Ep #4 - Bookreading Super Powers?!

Ep # 4 - Bookreading super powers?!

In this podcast Jeane and Karena talk about bookreading super powers, some cool book related websites, movies based on books that are coming out in 2013, top ten books published in 2012, and some reading challenges to try out this year!

Websites That Thrill Us

• BookRx 
• Literary Exploration 
• BBC Must Read Books
• BBC Top 100
• Literature Map
• Speed Reading Lessons

Ep #3 - A Christmas Carol

Ep #3 - A Christmas Carol

In this podcast Jeane and Karena have a special New Year's edition and discuss A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Reading Resolutions, the poll winners for the next three months and the poll choices for the month of April's book selections.