Book Club Fun

We had a great party today at Kneaders. Thanks for coming everyone! There was a great selection of books to choose from and it was hard to choose just one, but we did it.

We will read The Help by Kathryn Stockett for our January book club,
on Jan 14th at Annette's house at 7:30 pm.

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Here's the rest of the books that were submitted:

Wild at Heart by John Eldredge
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
The Alchemyst, the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
The Talisman Ring by Georgette Hyer
Frederica by Georgette Hyer
Not Without my Daughter by Betty Mahmoody with William Hoffer
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
The Traveler's Gift by Andy Andrews

There were a couple of books suggested by a lady next to us. Several people wanted the names. Well, here they are:
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Peony by Pearl S. Buck

Thanks again to everyone who's been part of our book club! It makes me happy to spend time with all of you. Marry Christmas and Happy Holiday! Love you all!

Saturday is the Big Day

It's time for our Christmas party.
Saturday at 11:00 at Kneaders in Jordan Landing.
Bring a book to exchange.
To carpool meet at Angela's at 10:30.
We're excited to see everyone and just have a fun time.

December Book Club

Our annual Christmas party is coming up on Sat, December 11th.

Instead of a dinner or night thing, we are going to do something new. We'll be going out to brunch!! JB's was discussed and probably Denny's, IHOP or something like that. Anyone know of a JB's? Where is it? Otherwise we could go to IHOP right there by Wal-Mart. Please respond with your opinion on where we should go.

Is 11:00 am alright with everyone?

Please email Jen or Angela with your responses ASAP.

We will be eating and then do a book exchange like we've done in previous years. We will also be choosing one of these books to read for January.

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We had fun at our last book club. Here were the submissions at the open forum.

Margaret
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Sheri
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien

Jen
Darkborn by Alison Sinclair (1st in a series)
Pegasus by Robyn McKinley (book 1 of 2)

Angela
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Front of the Class by Brad Cohen w/ Lisa Wysocky

Christy
The Traveler's Gift by Andy Andrews
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

Annette
Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Sorry, I can't come tomorow

Hey guys!  Tomorrow is Randy's birthday so I got us Harry Potter tickets for Friday night for his birthday before I remembered it was the night of book club!  Dangit!  I was going to bring The Help by Kathryn Stockett as a book that I loved.  It's set in the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi.  It's about 2 black maids and one southern woman and the part they played during the civil rights movement.  I seriously loved it.  But I would recommend listening to it rather than reading it.  The narrators did a great job and they really helped me to get into the book whereas I think I would have been distracted by the language if I had tried to read it.  Based on your recommendations I also finished reading all the Jessica Day George books.  I liked the dragon series the best, the others were ok.  I finished The Keys to the Kingdom series which I thought was only ok.  I read Eat, Pray, Love which I mostly liked.  I especially enjoyed the spiritual journey which has made me contemplate how much effort I put into my own spiritual journey.  I'm listening to Shantaram at work right and I like it so far but Margaret didn't mention it was as thick as the bible so it might be a while before I finish it.  Please post the books you guys liked so I can continue to read great stuff instead of random crap I pick up off the shelves.  I'll miss you guys but see you next month!!!

Love ya,
Mindy

Nov 19th

We had fun at Mindy's discussing The Hunger Games Series and lots of other topics. Thanks to everyone who came and participated.

Our next book club meeting will be on Friday November 19th at Margret's house. We'll be having an open forum to choose our book for January. Come with a book/books you liked and/or didn't like and we'll have a good discussion.

December's book club will be our annual Christmas party. It will be on Friday December 10th at 6:30 at Jen's house. Carpooling at 6:00 and potluck dinner, more details later. We will be having a book exchange again, so be on the lookout for a book you want to bring and give.

Have a Happy Halloween!

October Book Club

October 15th is the date! We will be discussing the Hunger Games series. I think we decided to meet at Mindy's house at 7:30 pm, is that right? We will meet at Angela's house at 6:30 to carpool. See you there!

Book Club Tonight!

Just a quick reminder that book club is tonight. Meet at Angela's at 6:00. We'll be going to dinner at Iggy's Sports Grill at Jordan Landing, then roaming a book store until movie time.

My vote for a movie would be Eat, Love, Pray at 8:10 or The Sorcerer's Apprentice at 9:35 pm, but we can decide which movie we want there. See you all tonight! :)