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May

From Jen Olsen:

MAY BOOK CLUB!

The book we will be reading is Girl In Translation by Jean Kwok.
Here is a little info about the book:

When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.

Looking at May 26th to host book club at my house.

February

(From Courtney Blackham)
I am going to be hosting book club in February. We discussed last night and settled on The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
I haven't read it yet but it has received good reviews on good reads and from a few in our group. There are plenty of copies at the library but it's 387 pages so get started soon!
I am planning to have it on February 25th at 7:00 unless a lot of people have conflicts that night.

Here is a link to the synopsis on Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9361589-the-night-circus
Hope you enjoy the book and can come on the 25th!

January

I hope you are enjoying reading "The forgotten Garden" By Kate Morton. I think it is a great book to read in this dreary, cold January month! If you haven't started reading, there is still plenty of time. Discussion will be at my house Thursday, January 28 at 7:30. I'm thinking I will make a traditional English trifle, so you will all definitely need to come!!!
-Kristen

November/December

Hello Ladies-

Now that Halloween is over I figured you could get your head more around reading a Christmas book. I thought it would be nice to read something that has an uplifting message since we always strive to be better through the holidays.

I have chosen to read The Forgotten Carols by Michael McLean. I think most of you have heard of this book and probably know the music. I read this book back in probably 2006 and I really liked it. I liked reading the chapters and then singing the song to myself at the end.

If you go to the Library's website and put it on hold you can get just the story version but there are only a few copies of it. But if you get the "Kit" there are 11 copies of it, and you get the book and the CD. So it'll be a full multi-media experience! =)

I have chosen to host book club on Thursday December 3rd, probably around 7 p.m. I know it's a busy time of year, but I thought the first week of December wont be as bad as Thanksgiving week!

 Please come it'll be so fun and a great kick off to the Christmas season!
Xochitl Burgoyne

October

October's book for our little book club is going to be "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness.  I'm planning on Thursday October 22 at 7:30.  There are plenty of copies available at the library and it is a YA story, so you can finish it in the next few weeks.  Here is a trailer for it...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iEX5g6c7ueE

This book is going to be made into a movie in 2016, I believe.  I really wanted to read something spooky or Halloweenish- but I get too scared! So, the title at least says "Monster" in it, right?!

Happy reading!! (And if you don't plan on reading, just plan on eating!)


Kara

September

Hi Everyone!

It looks like my original book choice is going to be too difficult to get before the end of September. I am immersed in all things Regency right now, but I haven't read everything by Jane Austen.  For September we're going to read Persuasion, instead. Plan on book club the last Wednesday of September (September 30th)!

See you then!

Stephanie Flynn

August Book Club

June

The book for June is
English Trifle by Josi S. Kilpack
Hope you enjoy it! It is book 2 in a series, but you won't be lost if you haven't read the first one.
I will let you know on a date for book club a little bit later in the month! For now enjoy reading! It is perfect weather to sit out at night on your porch and enjoy a book
-Chantel

May

Hey everyone! Sorry I'm not on the ball this month but the book I have chosen is "No Biking in the House Without a Helmet" by Melissa Faye Green. It is one of my favorites ever! So funny and touching. I will find a synopsis somewhere and post it below.
Also not sure what date I will pick yet. I will get back to you!
-Emily Judd


NO BIKING IN THE HOUSE WITHOUT A HELMET

“This is my twenty-first year in elementary school,” the story begins. “For twenty-one years, I’ve carried in cupcakes, enclosed checks, and provided emergency phone numbers. I have staple-gunned and hot-glued. I have given standing ovations, volunteered at the school library, and stood in the cafeteria line as the servers dropped balls of Thanksgiving-flavored foods from ice-cream scoops onto my wet tray.”
Melissa Fay Greene is known for award-winning nonfiction and eloquent journalism, but she is also a mother. She and her husband Don Samuel are the parents of four children by birth and five adopted as older children from foreign orphanages.
As the younger non-English-speaking ones multiplied, Donny began referring to their end of the upstairs hallway as “the international concourse.” And if one child complained and a second one piped up, he observed: “Another country heard from.”
“While parents our age graduated from elementary school,” writes Melissa, “we—like the dimwitted students of yore—have been held back, forced to repeat grades with people a lot younger.”
This wealth of experience has given rise to insights of the minor sort:
“I can state with some confidence that the elementary school musicals repeat once every five years.
“Because this is our fourth Cinderella.
“And only one of our nine children ever got a speaking part.”
And it has given rise to wisdom:
“We’ve steered by the light of what brings us joy, what makes us laugh, and what feels right and true. In shaky times, I’ve thought, ‘Did we take on too many?’ ‘Is the whole family at risk of capsizing?’ ‘What do the experts say?’ But we and the children seem to be thriving; it seems we have been right to trust love, laughter, and happiness.”

April

I am planning to host Book Club at my house on Thursday, April 30 at 7:30. The book I have chosen for is "Glitter and Glue" by Kelly Corrigan

-Nicole

 

February/March

Jessica will be having book club the end of March- since the library is a long hold for this book.

January 2015

Hey ladies! I'm so sorry I have neglected to give you any info about book club this month until now! I can blame the holiday busyness, right? :) So I am really excited to host book club this month!! It will be Thursday, January 29th at 7:30pm and the book we are reading is called, "The Tutor's Daughter" by Julie Klassen. I really enjoyed it and hopefully we'll have some fun topics to discuss. I am a Regency Era romance junkie, so I thought this was a good representation of the genre without being too sappy. Of course it's mostly predictable (there's just something about that Pride and Prejudice plot we can't seem to get tired of) :) but it's a pretty light read--romance with a bit of mystery involved. I hope you will all enjoy it and that you can make it on the 29th! Thanks Ladies :)
-Leah

November

Hi everyone! Sorry I missed book club Thursday! I hope you all had a great time. Not sure on the date for November's book club but here is the book: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Phillipp Sendker. I've started it and it is great so far. It has excellent reviews on Amazon. Hope you enjoy it. I will post a date ASAP.

-Julie Raleigh

October

Hello!

October book club will be at my house! We are reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Rebecca was written in 1938 but is still a great read!
Overview:
"Last Night I Dreamt I Went To Manderley Again."

So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past ther beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten...her suite of rooms never touched, her clothes ready to be worn, her servant — the sinister Mrs. Danvers — still loyal. And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca...for the secrets of Manderley.

September

Hey all ladies!!  I have the book for September and we are going to do To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.  I know a lot of you have already read it but please read it again! 

This is one of my favorite books.  It is a story of racism and prejudice seen through the eyes of a little girl as she watches her attorney father fight for justice.  It is the only book Harper Lee ever wrote.  When asked why she never wrote another she claimed she had said everything she wanted to say.  

I will probably have book club on the evening of the 25th.  Please let me know if you absolutely want me to change it and I can work something out.
Allison

August

No Book Club for July!

The August book is "The Rent Collector" by Camron Wright.

Mark your calendar for book club at my house on August 28th-- plenty of time to read!

I read this book a few months ago and loved it. Here's the synopsis:

This fictional story, based on actual accounts, follows a Cambodian family that lives at--and makes their living from--Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. As her husband scavenge the dump for things to sell, Sang Ly tries to find a way to heal her ailing son. When she discovers that the bad-tempered rent collector can read, Sang LY begs the woman to teach her. The unlikely relationship is the beginning of a life-changing quest. It is a story of hope, determination, and the strength of family. It is the journey of one woman to save her son and another womans chance at redemption. It demonstrates that even in a dump in Cambodia--perhaps especially in a dump in Cambodia--everyone deserves a second chance.