"LET'S ALL READ A BOOK"!

 

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    "LET'S READ A BOOK"

 

 

"LIST OF BOOKS BY OUR "WEEKLY  READERS" 

 

A special list of books are going to be suggested by a classmate who now reads close to 3 books a week.  She has always been a reader and does love her chosen Library in her home.  Her name is Carolyn Bertie Wallis and I think it would be fun to place her list and suggestions on our 2024 ...

"CLASSMATES BOOK CORNER"

NEW...NEW...NEW.. 

October 16, 2024 

Carolyn Bertie has just suggested another book for all of us! 

 

 

Joe Welling's book is still for sale!  Is on Amazon ....

Is a fun book to read....tells all about our times! (RIP Joe!) 

 

 

Carolyn Bertie Wallis has just recently suggested a new book she enjoyed.(  September 26, 2024 ) 

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GREAT NEW "page turner".....has great reviews!  

Suggested by Carolyn Bertie 

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A suggestion from Carolyn Bertie!  A good one for all of our l958 Airplane pilots:  Richard Meydag, Gary Bartling, Dan, and Leon  Whelchel. 

 

Above Recommended by Carolyn Bertie Wallace 

Enjoy...Carolyn Bertie Wallace 

 

 

'"A STREET CAT NAMED BOB" 

BY JAMES BOWEN 

WORDS FROM CAROLYN: 

"THIS IS A TRUE STORY ABOUT A MAN...A REAL MAN, AND A DOG...A REAL DOG, AND A LOVE STORY. WHAT BETTER BOOK COULD YOU READ?" Carolyn B. Wallis 

 

"The Women of CHATEAU LAFAYETTE"

BY Stephanie Dray "

"Another very awesome book about women. She also wrote "My Dear Hamilton" and "America's First Daughter".A lengthy book but it doesn't disappoint". Carolyn 

 

"House of Sky"


Rex enjoys the Series of David

Baldacci..they are high on his list to read! 


NEW SUGGESTIONS FOR BOOKS? PLEASE LET US KNOW! 

                                  1-20-2024 

 

 

 

1. "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling   Subtitle: "Ten reasons we're wrong about the world - and why things are really better than you think") Recommended by Dan McKenzie 

 

2.  "Mueller Report" Recommended by Rex Graves and Sandy Martin

 

3.    World War 2 Books recommended by Joe McCutcheon and his wife, Sherry 

      a   "Once we were Brothers" by Ronald H.  Balson 

    b   "The Lost Wife" by Alyson Richman 

    c    "The Taster" by V.S. Alexander 

 

4.     "The Pioneers" by David McCullough 

 

5.     " Sons of America " by Jon Meacham & Tim 

          McGraw 

6.     "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Della Owens 

7.      "Cross Creek" by Marjorie Kinan Rawlings. 

          (Author of the Yearling.  She writes about             

            her life living in Florida. A true account of an                 unusual woman's life) * RECOMMENDED BY CAROLYN   BERTIE WALLIS -

 

8. "THE END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB" BY AUTHOR, 

       WILL SCHAWALBE

(CAROLYN SAYS: "A wonderful book about wonderful books and mothers and sons and the enduring braid between them. Like the printed volumes it celebrates, this story will stay with you long after the last page.) 

 

9. "Tuesdays with Morrie and The Time Keeper" by Author, MITCH ALBOM 

 

10. "CULTURE JIHAD" BY TODD STARNES

 

11. "The Gift of Forgiveness" by Kathrine  Schwarznegger Pratt *recommended by Gordona Healigher 

 

12. "The Splendid and the Vile" (A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz." by Eric Larson  * Recommended by Robert Dupree 

 

13. "In the Garden of Beasts:(Love, Terror. and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin) by Eric Larson  * Recommended by Robert Dupree 

 

14. "Dead Wake" (The last Crossing of the Lusitania" by Eric Larson -*Recommended by Robert Dupree 

 

15. "The Devil in the White City" (Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America) by Eric Larson-*Recommended by Robert Dupree 

 

16. "Operation Chastise" (The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War 11) by Max Hastings.  * Recommended by Robert Dupree 

 

17. "The Lost Family" (How DNA Testing is Upending) * Recommended by Robert Dupree 

Who We Are" by Libby Copeland  (Great Book for all of you genealogists out there!) *Recommended by Robert Dupree 

 

18. "Can you still spit across the Street?" by Joe 

Welling,   ( Classmates have it you can borrow. )

 

19."A Terrible Beauty" - Book by "Mike Miller -Kindle...or Amazon. 

20. "China Marine" by E.B.Sledge continues where his 

21. "The Epoch Times" newspaper.  You can order online....Dion and I find it quite informative.....and we highly recommend it. dlg 

22. "I Am Malala" True story of a young girls fight for education for all boys and girls. Nancy Nuckolls Moore
 

 

More  SUGGESTIONS ARE NEEDED FOR OUR "BOOK SHELF"  dlg 

 

Book will be made into a movie soon. Filming starts March 2021 in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Dlg

 

A special book that is out and written by Carol Mersch (formerly Carol Baker, Class of l956) has been highly recommended by Rex Graves. He said it is a great read! So all you readers from Class of l958 purchase it.  The name of the book is "The Apostles of Apollo." 

 

Donna here is a new book for all the book worms in the class.

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter