We had a great time this month at book club. Since there was rain, we weren't able to go to Red Butte Gardens. Fortunately Sheri's tickets are still good and we will reschedule that for another activity.

We had a great discussion of many books. Several of us had read The Forest of Hands and Teeth already and we spent a few minutes discussing that. It was then decided that we didn't want to discuss it next month and then began the process of choosing another book.

Here are the submissions for Sept in no particular order because I can't remember who brought what.

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber

Tiger Saga by Colleen Houck

The Color Code by Taylor Hartman

The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz

The Hourglass Door series by Lisa Mangum

Secrets by Blaine Yorgason

Driven by Larry H. Miller

Let's Fix the Kids by James J Jones

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

We chose Unbroken to read for October, but after looking for it at the library and finding a REALLY long waiting list, we opted to read The Bean Trees since it is more readily available.

You can find more descriptions of these books by clicking on the shelves to the right or looking them up on Goodreads (Annette has them all on her shelf there too).

After our forum, we went to see the movie The Help. Since we had previously read the book for book club it seemed appropriate to see the movie. There was a consensus that the movie was very well done and we all liked it. Thanks for everyone coming and participating in our fun book club event.

Our next book club will be October 21st at Jen's house in Herriman. Meet at Annette's house at 7:00 pm to carpool. Hope to see you all then!

August/September

We weren't able to get everyone to book club this month, but we did manage to get 4 of us there which was half of our group. We played games and talked about books, and since we had half of us there we decided to choose a book for October anyway.

The book we chose is: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (see to the right)
This was Mindy's submission and I'd love to have her tell more about it because my memory doesn't do it justice.

I also created a group on Facebook for our book club. It will be another way that we can keep in touch and ask questions and send reminders and such. It is a secret club and only members will see it. If we need to add someone I think you can just add them to the group. You can also unsubscribe to the group if you don't want to be in it anymore. I hope this will be helpful to us. Let me (Jen) know what you think by commenting on facebook.

August Book Club

So. . .I hear August was a hard month to coordinate our schedules. This Friday was supposed to work out the best, but I hear Sheri can't come, Christy can't come, Annette's so busy it wouldn't hurt her feelings to skip, I might have family in town later that night (I still would host though--I miss you guys!). Anyway. . .Annette suggested that we do an online forum and choose our books from that. What do you think? Please respond ASAP, so that we can make plans. THANKS!! Angela

Upcoming dates

Aug 5th will be our next book club
It will be at Angela's house at 7:30 pm
We will be having an open forum

Sept 16th is the following date
We will have an activity at Red Butte Gardens
Sheri has free passes for up to 7 people.
More details will be discussed at our August meeting

Open Forum June 10

Jen LIKED My Fair Godmother by Janette Rallison

Annette LIKED My Reading Life and Lords of Discipline by Pat Conry
Annette DISLIKED (but keeps reading) a bunch of books by Wally Lamb

Christy LIKED Disabilities in the Gospel by Danyelle Ferguson and Lynn Parsons
                      The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
                       Bumpy Landings by Donald Carey
Christy SORT OF LIKED Call Me Irrisistable by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (great story, too much sex)
                                        Slathbog's Gold by ML Forman (too cliche)

Margeret LIKED The Last Aloha by Gaellen Quinn
                            Little Bee by Chris Cleave
                            Dropped from Heaven by Sophie Judah
                            50 Jobs in 50 States by Daniel Sesddiqui

Mindy LIKED The Compound by SA Bodeen
                        Dark Life by Kat Falls
                        Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Mindy HATED The Physik Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
                         Nights in the Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks

We didn't really decide what we're doing but if we keep on our schedule our next book club should be July 8th, discussing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.  However we discussed having an unbirthday party and everyone bringing a gift to exchange.  What does everyone want to do?

Book Club

Just in case you missed the emails, here is one more reminder.

Book Club will be this Friday (tomorrow) at Christy's house
7:00 pm (a little earlier)
Christy will email her address to everyone.

We will be discussing Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Hope to see you all there!

April 1st next book club & list of books

Thanks for everyone's submissions! There are a bunch of books we all wanted to read, but we decided on one for April 1st


Stargirl

by Jerry Spinelli





We will have book club at Jen's house at 7:30 pm. To carpool, meet at Annette's house at 6:50 pm.

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Here is a list of books we discussed at the open forum this month. I tried to add a little more detail to each submission to help us remember what was said about each. If I got some info wrong let me know and I will change it, my memory is faulty.

Traci liked all of these

Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber -- about a girl with multiple personalities and her discovery of them

Sheri mention another that is like Sybil it's called Mother Had a Secret by Tiffany Fletcher -- a daughter tells of her experience with her mother’s multiple personalities (LDS setting)

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett – about a queen who finds a mobile library and discovers a love of reading that changes her life

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – a retired major and a widow are brought together by a love of reading. Another good book similar to The Uncommon Reader

Mindy read some of the previous submissions

She liked The Queen’s Theif series but liked the 2^nd and 3^rd books best – The Queen and King of Attolia

She also liked The Shape of Mercy by Susan Meissner but thought the ending was a bit rushed

She didn't like Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld and I can't remember why

Angela liked all of these

Peace Like a River – by leif enger really liked the way it was written & Lou liked it too. It's about an asthmatic boy and his family searching for an outlaw older brother who was charged with murder.

The Message by Lance Richardson – about his after death experience

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham – about a boy who loves math and uses it at sea for navigation

Margaret liked all of these

Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell – about Jews in Italy at the end of WWII

The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman – surprised that she liked it since it’s about the privileged class

True Grit by Charles Portis – the book was better than the movie

Jen liked

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli – about a girl who goes to high school and calls herself Stargirl. How she this strange new girl causes a stir in the student population

Sheri liked

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – by Rebecca skloot – about the discovery of HeLa cells, the first immortal human cells grown in culture, and the woman they came from

Teen help books that she liked

Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall by Anthony E. Wolf

Escaping the Endless Adolescence by Joseph Allen (she liked this one the best)

Yes, Your Teen is Crazy! by Michael J. Bradley

Thanks to everyone for sharing.