2011-2012 BOOK and HOSTESS

13 Sept - Labor Day at Robin's
11 Oct - American Buffalo at Sarah's
8 Nov - Sarah's Key at Cathi's
13 Dec -Beside a Burning Sea at Dayle's
10 Jan - no book China City
7 Feb - Secret Lives of Hoarders at Karen's
6 Mar - Lotus Eaters at Dayle's
10 Apr - Mink River at Candace's
8 May - The Lacuna at Louie's
12 Jun - The Golden Compass at Pam's
July - Picnic at Madelyn's
20-22 Aug - Retreat Seabrook

Friday, February 29, 2008

Display at Langley Library

Karen, Candace, Louie, Cathi and Robin filled the display case at the Langley Library with stuff from our almost 20 years of Book Club. We'll have the display for the month of March.
View of the display case.
Cathi peeks in.
Karen, Robin and Candace make design decisions.
Robin re-arranges,
then locks up the case.
Cathi and Karen added some favorite books on top of the case for viewers to check out from the library. We also added a list of all the books we've read over the years.

February 2008 Meeting




We met at Audrey's place, and talked about "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" by Marisha Pessl. The general consensus was that if you were able to make it past the first part of the book, you loved it! The author has a great web site for the book: Calamity Physics.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

December 2007

Our meeting at Bonnie's house.
Front: Louie, Cathi, Robin.
Seated: Audrey, Dayle, Candace, Jane, Karen.
Standing: Madelyn.
Book: The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Brady Udall

Display

We have the Langley Library display case reserved for the month of March, so be thinking about what you'd like to see in it! Here are some thoughts to get started:

1. Show all the books we've read - maybe a list, or something more graphic. Candace suggested making something that looks like all the books on a shelf, with the spines showing. It could be done by hand, or on the computer. Maybe some stacks of actual books.
2. Have us all list our favorite book (this could take some thinking!)
3. Our scrapbook
4. Photos of us (do you have a favorite?)
5. The Book Woman t-shirt (I still have mine)
6. Something about how it's more than a book club to us - show our Retreats, picnics, dinners out, etc.
7. Some of the items we've made at Retreats
8. Have everyone write a short paragraph about what the club means to you
9. Bookmarks that we've collected from each other over the years
10. A description of how we choose books, set up our schedule, do the research, have the discussion, etc.
11. Have some kind of interactive part
12. Our group's chronology

SCHEDULE 2007-2008

9 Oct - Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
13 Nov - Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson or Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder
11 Dec - The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Brady Udall
8 Jan - The Memory of Running, Ron Mclarty
12 Feb - Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
11 Mar - A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
15 Apr - Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
13 May - A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
10 Jun - Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert or A Thousand Days in Venice, Marlena De Blasi
Potluck at Louie's, use recipes from one of the books.
July - Retreat
August - Picnic
Sept - choose books

January 2008

Our January 2008 meeting was at Gordon's restaurant.
Seated: Cathi, Pat, Audrey, Karen
Standing: Louie, Candace, Robin, Dayle, Jane
Book: The Memory of Running, Ron Mclarty