Books and Bottles, episode 8 was a success!!

For eight consecutive years I have hosted a party every January called Books and Bottles. At the conclusion of last year’s party friends asked me to share more about the party - it’s history, how it it operates and the list of books that were exchanged during the event. You’ll see last year’s story here in the Chronicle section if you look for it.

As I sit here on a sunny Sunday with mild winter temps I’m thinking back to last night as about 20 of us gathered for Books & Bottles, episode 8. My home was filled with great friends and great food plus plenty of bottles of tasty beverages and of course a stack of intriguing books.

This years list is as follows:

Title, Author

• Barrel Fever, David Sedaris

• The Reader, Berhanrd Schlink

• The River of Doubt, Candice Millard

• St Francis of America, Patricia Applebon

• Poetic Scientific, Leah Noble

• Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson

• Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance

• Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

• The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert

• The Horla, Guy De Maupassant

• Tell the Wolves I’m Home, Carol Burnt

• Homegoings - Yaa Gyasi

• The Grass Harp, Truman Capote

• The Oath and the Office, Corey Brettschneider

• The Blue Zones of Happiness, Dan Bluttner

• New and Selected Poems, Mary Oliver