Monday, April 6, 2009

Open Forum Book List

Oops, I forgot to put on the book list at the end of the last post, so here it is.

Annette likes He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo
and was on the fence about Saints by Orson Scott Card

Jen likes Persuasion by Jane Austen
and didn't like Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

Angela likes Gifted Hands The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson w/ Cecil Murphey
and kind of dislikes Animorph book by K.A. Applegate

Sheri Lee Burnett likes The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
and didn't like Lord of The Flies by William Golding

Margaret Harper likes Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
and didn't like Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck
also didn't like The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

April to May

April book club was a lot of fun. We got started late, but it was a good night for all. We missed those of you who were unable to come. There were a number of books that people brought and we had a very good discussion of them. A list of the books will be at the bottom of this posting.

We discussed the future of the book club and made a change to our book club schedule. We've decided that we will have an open forum every three months, we will have an activity every three months and we will have a normal book club every three months. From the open forum we will choose a book to discuss, the following month we will have an activity and then have the discussion of the book the month following the activity, this will give us time to get the book and read it before discussing it. I think that this will make for a fun and exciting schedule for our book club.

We will be starting this new schedule immediately. Since we had our open forum this month, in May we will have an activity, then in June we will discuss the book we chose this month which is Saints by Orson Scott Card.

May 14th we will be going to Settebello, an Italian restaurant downtown about 260 S 200 W, for our activity. We neglected to discuss a time for this activity. There are a couple options; we could meet at 6:00 pm and go to dinner, or we could meet at 7:30 pm and go for dessert. What would be your preference? Please comment or email (respond to all if you reply to the email) so we can know what the majority wants to do. Thanks.