Hey, Book Club will be held on Thursday, March 26th at 7:30 at Michelle Brown's home.
We will be discussing the Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis.
Come and discuss or listen to the discussion if you didn't get a chance to read the book!
Hope to see you there!!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Book Club This Week!
Don't forget book club this week at Micki Lambert's home, Thursday, February 24th at 7:30! We will be discussing The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows. Treats are always welcome!
We have information for the April and May bookclubs!
April is an author spotlight hosted by Rachel Tafoya. Choose any book that you would like written by author, Clive Cussler. Along with being an author, Clive Cussler is a Marine Archeologist and founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency. He has written a variety of fiction, non-fiction, and even children's books so there are a lot of options! For a full list of Clive Cussler's books, please visit http://www.cusslermen.com/.
We have information for the April and May bookclubs!
April is an author spotlight hosted by Rachel Tafoya. Choose any book that you would like written by author, Clive Cussler. Along with being an author, Clive Cussler is a Marine Archeologist and founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency. He has written a variety of fiction, non-fiction, and even children's books so there are a lot of options! For a full list of Clive Cussler's books, please visit http://www.cusslermen.com/.
In May we are reading There Is No Me Without You written by Melissa Fay Greene, hosted by Tiffany Keck...
Not unlike the AIDS pandemic itself, the odyssey of Haregewoin Teferra, who took in AIDS orphans, began in small stages and grew to irrevocably transform her life from that of "a nice neighborhood lady" to a figure of fame, infamy and ultimate restoration. In telling her story, journalist Greene who had adopted two Ethiopian children before meeting Teferra, juggles political history, medical reportage and personal memoir. While succinctly interspersing a history of Ethiopia, lucidly tracing the history of AIDS from its early manifestation as "slim disease" in the late 1970s to its appearance as a bizarrely aggressive [form] of Kaposi's sarcoma in the early 1980s, and following the complex path of medication (a super highway in the West, a trail in Africa), Greene rescues Teferra from undeserved oblivion as well as rescuing her from undeserved obloquy (false accusations of child selling)... Ethiopia is home to "the second-highest concentration of AIDS orphans in the world"; even as some of the orphans find happy endings in American homes, Greene keeps the urgency of the greater crisis before us in this moving, impassioned narrative. - Publishers Weekly
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Book Review by Mary Jenkins
Multiple Blessings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets by Jon and Kate Gosselin
"I blinked hard and then stared at the bright screen positioned slightly to my right. There was no mistaking what I saw, yet I was in a state of denial. My doctor began his fateful count. One...aaah. Two...okay. Three...now I was scared. Four...I started sobbing hysterically. The chill of reality washed over me as I watched my husband, my best friend, cheerleader, and storehouse of strength, slowly drop to his knees at the count of five...but the count continued...I feel so incredibly blessed that God has chosen us for this journey. This life is absolutely not in a million years what Jon and I expected, but it is infinitely more than we ever hoped or dreamed in so many ways. While John and I can't imagine what the days ahead will hold for our family, I am often comforted by a quote by Abraham Lincoln. He said, 'The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.' I say, 'Thank God.'"
If you are a fan of the television show "Jon and Kate Plus 8" you will love this book. You may think you know it all but you have no idea. This is a personal, in depth look into the lives of the Gosselin family from their marriage all the way through to the sextuplet's third birthday. Though both parents help write the book it is written from Kate's point of view. It is quite touching to hear their story, how they did not ask to get pregnant with six babies but were absolutely against selective reduction. They felt that God had sent them these children and they were to care for them, all of them. Through her narrative you can hear the worry, stress, excitement, exhaustion, and love that all came to her as she carried and birthed her twins, and then her sextuplets. She gets quite a bit of flack in the online community for being rude to her husband and overbearing with her children. However I found that in this book she was simply stating that she is a mom, like any other mom. She has good days and bad days and she had to learn, and is still learning how to accept help from others graciously. She quotes the Bible quite a bit and really gives credit for her strength to God, concluding the book with six lessons God has taught her while on this journey. It is a wonderful and uplifting fun book that I would recommend to anyone.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Voting Results are In!
Well, you decided! And in March we'll read The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis. I have to give a big thank you to the three people who voted and broke the four way tie! I was really worried for about a week there!
Don't forget book club this week at Nicole Baldwin's house, Thursday at 2pm. Kids and treats to share are welcome! We read The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
The Goose Girl by Grimm Brothers
Our January book, The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale was based on a Grimm Brothers fairy tale. I thought it might be interesting in our discussion coming up to post a link to the original story! http://www.authorama.com/grimms-fairy-tales-14.html
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Best Book Lists
Here is one from Random House:
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
I am embarrassed to say there were several on this list that I hadn't ever heard of. Atleast on the "Board's List"
Another list I found that I made me feel a little better about my book reading was this:
(found at best100novels.com)
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
I am embarrassed to say there were several on this list that I hadn't ever heard of. Atleast on the "Board's List"
Another list I found that I made me feel a little better about my book reading was this:
(found at best100novels.com)
Saturday, December 27, 2008
It's Time to Vote!
Here are the choices for book club in March. Voting Closes on January 19th.
A Town Like Alice: ...tells the story of Jean Paget; as a prisoner of war in Malaya during World War II and then her return to Malaya after the war where she discovers something that leads her on the search for romance and to a small outback community in Australia where she sets out to turn it into 'a town like Alice'.
Angela's Ashes: Recounting scenes from his childhood in New York City and Limerick, Ireland, McCourt paints a brutal yet poignant picture of his early days when there was rarely enough food on the table, and boots and coats were a luxury. The author remembers his wayward yet adoring father who was forever drinking what little money the family had. He recounts the painful loss of his siblings to avoidable sickness and hunger, a proud mother reduced to begging for charity, and the stench of the sewage-strewn streets that ran outside the front door. As McCourt approaches adolescence, he discovers the shame of poverty and the beauty of Shakespeare, the mystery of sex and the unforgiving power of the Irish Catholic Church.
The Scarlett Letter: The novel is set in a village in Puritan New England. The main character is Hester Prynne, a young woman who has borne an illegitimate child. Hester believes herself a widow, but her husband, Roger Chillingworth, returns to New England very much alive and conceals his identity. He finds his wife forced to wear the scarlet letter A on her dress as punishment for her adultery. Chillingworth becomes obsessed with finding the identity of his wife's former lover. When he learns that the father of Hester's child is Arthur Dimmesdale, a saintly young minister who is the leader of those exhorting her to name the child's father, Chillingworth proceeds to torment the guilt-stricken young man.
The Ladies Auxiliary: When free-spirited Batsheva moves into the close-knit Orthodox community of Memphis, Tennessee, the already precarious relationship between the Ladies Auxiliary and their teenage daughters is shaken to the core. In this extraordinary novel, Tova Mirvis takes us into the fascinating and insular world of the Memphis Orthodox Jews, one ripe with tradition and contradiction. Warm and wise, enchanting and funny, The Ladies Auxiliary brilliantly illuminates the timeless struggle between mothers and daughters, family and self, religious freedom and personal revelation, honoring the past and facing the future.
A Town Like Alice: ...tells the story of Jean Paget; as a prisoner of war in Malaya during World War II and then her return to Malaya after the war where she discovers something that leads her on the search for romance and to a small outback community in Australia where she sets out to turn it into 'a town like Alice'.
Angela's Ashes: Recounting scenes from his childhood in New York City and Limerick, Ireland, McCourt paints a brutal yet poignant picture of his early days when there was rarely enough food on the table, and boots and coats were a luxury. The author remembers his wayward yet adoring father who was forever drinking what little money the family had. He recounts the painful loss of his siblings to avoidable sickness and hunger, a proud mother reduced to begging for charity, and the stench of the sewage-strewn streets that ran outside the front door. As McCourt approaches adolescence, he discovers the shame of poverty and the beauty of Shakespeare, the mystery of sex and the unforgiving power of the Irish Catholic Church.
The Scarlett Letter: The novel is set in a village in Puritan New England. The main character is Hester Prynne, a young woman who has borne an illegitimate child. Hester believes herself a widow, but her husband, Roger Chillingworth, returns to New England very much alive and conceals his identity. He finds his wife forced to wear the scarlet letter A on her dress as punishment for her adultery. Chillingworth becomes obsessed with finding the identity of his wife's former lover. When he learns that the father of Hester's child is Arthur Dimmesdale, a saintly young minister who is the leader of those exhorting her to name the child's father, Chillingworth proceeds to torment the guilt-stricken young man.
The Ladies Auxiliary: When free-spirited Batsheva moves into the close-knit Orthodox community of Memphis, Tennessee, the already precarious relationship between the Ladies Auxiliary and their teenage daughters is shaken to the core. In this extraordinary novel, Tova Mirvis takes us into the fascinating and insular world of the Memphis Orthodox Jews, one ripe with tradition and contradiction. Warm and wise, enchanting and funny, The Ladies Auxiliary brilliantly illuminates the timeless struggle between mothers and daughters, family and self, religious freedom and personal revelation, honoring the past and facing the future.
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