The Mostly Social Book Club (MSBC) has been in existence since about 1992. We are a group of five people who at one time all worked on the "Network Performance Team" out at IBM. Though we've all moved on to different jobs in IBM, we continue to try and meet regularly.
Through 2006, we met each week for lunch, and in 2007 changed our meetings to once a month, usually on the second or third Sunday evening of the month. Sometimes at our meetings, we've even discussed books. However, as the title implies, we are mostly social, and don't put too much pressure on ourselves to read books. We started off reading mostly self-improvement kinds of books. We read our first book when we were all on the Network Performance Team together and it was Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
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Year |
Book |
Author |
Chosen By |
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2014 |
Mary |
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2013 |
Suzanne |
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2013 |
Janet |
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2013 |
John |
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2013 |
Sharon |
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2012 |
Mary |
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2012 |
Suzanne |
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2012 |
Janet |
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2011 |
John |
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2011 |
Sharon |
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2011 |
Mary |
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2011 |
Suzanne |
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2010 |
Janet |
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2010 |
John |
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2010 |
Sharon |
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2010 |
Mary |
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2009-2010 |
Suzanne |
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2009 |
Janet |
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2009 |
Sharon |
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2009 |
John |
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2008 |
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother |
Suzanne |
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2008 |
Elizabeth Gilbert |
Mary |
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2008 |
Annie Proulx |
Janet |
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2007 |
Jeannette Walls |
Sharon |
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2007 |
Carol Anshaw |
John |
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2007 |
Jodi Picoult |
Suzanne |
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2007 |
Lynn Grabhorn |
Mary |
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2006 |
Arthur Golden |
Janet |
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2005 |
Jim Loehr |
Sharon |
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2004 |
The Nuclear Age |
Tim O'Brien |
John |
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2004 |
Eats, Shoots, & Leaves |
Lynne Truss |
Suzanne |
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2004 |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
Mitch Albom |
Mary |
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2004 |
Life of Pi: A Novel |
Yann Martel |
Janet |
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2003 |
Seabiscuit: An American Legend |
Laura Hillenbrand |
Sharon |
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2003 |
Read My Lips Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender |
Riki Wilchins |
John |
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? |
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith |
Anne Lamott |
Suzanne |
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? |
The Nanny Diaries |
Emma McLaughlin, |
Mary |
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? |
Rubyfruit Jungle |
Rita Mae Brown |
Janet |
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? |
Cain River |
Lalita Tademy |
Sharon |
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? |
The Poisonwood Bible |
Barbara Kingsolver |
John |
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? |
Moo |
Jane Smiley |
Sharon |
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? |
Forged by Fire |
Sharon M. Draper |
Suzanne |
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2000 |
Sweet Savage Love |
Rosemary Rogers |
Mary |
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? |
Groomed for Death |
Carolyn Banks |
Janet |
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Jung to Live By (Descoped to the Dream Chapter only.) |
Eugene Pascal |
Suzanne |
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values |
Robert M. Pirsig |
John |
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The Wealthy Barber |
David Chilton |
John |
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The Left Hand of Darkness |
Ursula Le Guin |
Johnnie |
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(that war book with the basket) |
??? |
Johnnie |
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The Turn of the Screw |
Henry James |
John |
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Wuthering Heights |
Emily Bronte |
Janet |
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Sky O'Malley |
Bertrice Small |
Mary |
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Midwives |
Chris Bohjalian |
Suzanne |
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
J. K. Rowling |
All? |
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Principled-Centered Leadership (Abandoned) |
Stephen R. Covey |
All |
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Friedman's Fables |
Edwin Friedman |
Janet |
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The Phantom Toolbooth |
Nick Beggs |
Suzanne |
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? |
Bridges of Madison County |
Robert James Waller |
John |
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7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
Stephen R. Covey |
All |
This is a great group of people, and we've been through many things together over the years. Click for the latest poop from our last meeting.
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