February Girl's Night Out & March Book Club

Hey Girls-- in our last book club meeting we decided that we are gonna have book club in someones home every other month and the month in between we are gonna have a Girl's Night Out! This is gonna be fun. Jody is planning our Girl's Night Out for February.... We are eating at the Mellow Mushroom ~ DELISH! 
Tara is planning our March book club night.... We are reading Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell, we are then gonna watch the movie! Which is one of my top two favs. I hope that y'all are super excited about this years schedule! 
I also heard through the grapevine that Liz is making us a facebook page woot woot! See y'all next month!

January Book Club

Hey Ladies!  So the next book club will be January 10, 2012.  We felt with the holidays and everything we would do the next one in January.  We also decided to have everyone pick their own book and then at book club, you will try to convince us why we should read that book.  We thought this might give us lots of books to put on our list for the year.  We will update closer to January with location details. 

October Book Club

The Giver Summary

The Allure of a Perfect World
Lois Lowry's The Giver tells the story of Jonas, who lives in a futuristic society and who, until the age of twelve, has led a peaceful and normal, albeit regulated, life. Jonas has two parents, a mother who is happily employed at the Department of Justice, and a father who is happily employed as a Nurturer. Jonas occasionally quarrels with his younger sister Lily, and he enjoys riding his bicycle, visiting with his friends Asher and Fiona, and musing about his future. In Jonas's world, everything (from an individual's desire, to the weather, to a person's career) is regulated. The community's rulers see to it, for example, that every member of this nameless, timeless community occupies a productive role in the society. The plot of The Giver develops out of Jonas's changing perceptions towards his community after he is selected to be the Receiver of Memory and discovers that nothing about his idyllic community is what it seems to be.

In Jonas's community, a child receives a professional assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, at which time s/he becomes an adult. Jonas, who has waited apprehensively to find out what his assignment will be, grows increasingly agitated during his long-awaited Ceremony. His friends have received desirable and appropriate assignments like "Fish Hatchery Attendant," and "Assistant Director of Recreation," but it appears that he, Jonas, has been bypassed. Finally, after all of the other Twelves have received their assignments, Jonas learns that he, because the elders recognize his intelligence and courage, and because he has the "Capacity to See Beyond" (the ability to see colors), has been selected to become the next Receiver of Memory.

Book Club this month will be October 11, 2011 @ 7:00. By popular demand we decided to have it at a home (156 Butternut Lane) and everyone is welcome to bring a treat to snack on, sweet or savory. 

September Book Club

This months book we are reading is The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton.

A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, and a mystery. The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton.

Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra's life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.

Inheriting a book of dark and intriguing fairytales written by Eliza Makepeace - the Victorian authoress who disappeared mysteriously in the early twentieth century - Cassandra takes her courage in both hands to follow in the footsteps of Nell on a quest to find out the truth about their history, their family and their past; little knowing that in the process, she will also discover a new life for herself. 
-except taken from goodreads.com

August Book Club

A plan to destroy America, a hundred years in the making, is about to be unleashed . . . can it be stopped?
There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws and our future. It works by manipulating public perception so that ideas previously thought of as radical begin to seem acceptable over time. Move the Window and you change the debate. Change the debate and you change the country.

July's Book

This months book selection is Anne's. Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

A little about the book:

In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes. (from goodreads.com). Book club this month is on July 12, 2011 @ 7pm, place to be determined.

June's Book

This month's book is Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson.  Recently there has been some controversy on this book and its author.  Click here if you're interested in learning more.
We'll be meeting on Tuesday June 14th 7:00pm at Zea's to discuss it.  Hope to see you there!
-Katie