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