Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Recommendations?

I just logged into my Amazon account and had a new recommendation for a book called "A Scattered Life" by breakout author Karen McQuestion. If you're a Kindle user, it's only $2.99.

Here's a link to the Amazon page.


Feel free to comment on this book or to add your own recommendations!

For next Tuesday, read the first half of "The Scent of Rain & Lightning." If you haven't had a chance to look for it, and you're in the Bridgeport area, it is NOT available at our Borders or Target store - so you may have to order online.

Happy New Year!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

New Book!

First off, next week, December 28, we will NOT have a meeting. Happy Holidays :)

New book choice: "The Scent of Rain & Lightning" by Nancy Pickard is only 211 pages long. So we'll read half for the first meeting of the year (January 4), and half for the second meeting. Again, Tuesdays, 6pm @Panera.

We'll need a third book lined up since this next one is so short... so start checking out synopses & reviews!

See you next year!

Thursday, December 16, 2010

The Next Book...

Hi everyone!
CDillon & Becky came to the last meeting. All three of us have already finished reading "The Help," so we discussed the questions from the publisher and our satisfaction (or lack thereof) with the ending.

We also began to debate over the next selection. CDillon came prepared with a number of synopses printed off from LitLovers.com. Paolo Coehlo's "The Alchemist" and Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief" are two that we are interested in reading. Does anyone have any additional suggestions before we make a final decision? Post it as a comment below :)

Happy Reading! Hope to see everyone next Tuesday - I have the VIP room reserved for us at Panera.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Finally!

OK, I've been fighting with my blogger account since last Tuesday's meeting and finally had to reset my password in order to login. So I apologize for not posting anything new!

CDillon & I discussed the mother - daughter relationships in the book, as well as the way the times influence the character development in the book. We had a great time :)

We should come up with some sort of snow policy since it is winter! I know there was a bit of confusion last week since there was a snow day at school. Thoughts? Often the roads are not good in the morning, but 12 hours later, they would be fine for the book club meeting. And then there are times when there IS school, but by 6pm the roads are icky. So it's hard to come up with any sort of "policy" - maybe we should just create a phone book/phone tree for the club, that way we can call the meetings off if we need to due to weather, and we'll have each others' numbers to call with any questions. Next meeting...

Tomorrow is the next meeting. I already know that the VIP room is reserved, so we'll probably end up in the dining room somewhere. I have the VIP room reserved for us next week, Dec. 21.

Hope to see you all tomorrow!
-Nikki

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

How to Comment...

In response to a few questions about how to post, here are the instructions:
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