Book Club Recap 9/28/10

Attendees: Callah, Christopher, Denise, Heather, Lisa K, Michelle, Raven, Rhonda, and a special guest appearance by Addie!

The first book that we talked about was The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Everyone in the group really enjoyed this book and many of the other members had read the next book or the whole series. We were debating about which book we thought was the best and it seemed like #3 might be the best? We also discussed how the author died after he turned in all three manuscripts and how it is claimed that his girlfriend found a fourth manuscript on his computer and how there is a legal battle going on between the family and the girlfriend over it.

Next we discussed Mockingjay, which was the third and final book of the Hunger Games. Everyone who read this book liked it, but it wasn't the favorite out of the three. We definitely thought that this book was darker than the rest of them. I won't say much else about what we talked about just incase someone on here isn't done and wants to read it.

Christopher and Nathan left and Denise and Addie arrived. Since Denise had read some of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and watched the movie and Addie read the book we discussed the book some more. We all talked about how we loved that the author portrayed a really strong female character and we all really liked Lisbeth. Most of us had seen the movie and we thought that the casting of Lisbeth was spot-on to how she was described in the book. The conversation about this book was a little hard to do because others wanted to talk about stuff that was going on in book 2 and 3, but Denise didn't want to hear anything (I am in the middle of book 2). Then there were some big differences between the book and movie, so we told Denise that she has to finish reading the book and we didn't discuss the differences so as not to ruin that either. I can't remember much else...

Denise was a little obsessed with her phone because she just got a new one and was trying to figure it out. There was one point where I am pretty sure her and Addie were texting each other and they were sitting right next to each other! Rhonda also got out her iPad. There was also Kindle talk. There was also some baby and pregnancy talk because I am due in three weeks and Lisa is due in about three months. After most people left we watched Dancing With the Stars to see some of Addie's friends perform and we weren't too impressed and I couldn't believe how much they drag out the results show. Cooper showed up with a big basket of cookies and we all got to take some home :)

We decided on two books for the next book club! We will be reading One Day by David Nicholls and The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

Book club will be on Tuesday November 9th at 7pm at Rhonda's house. I should have had baby #2 by then and if I am up for it I will be there with the little one.

Speaking of the little one Christopher and I have a baby pool going. If you feel like participating please do! We have the prize as some Oktoberfest beer that Christopher brewed, but for our members your prize could be the book that we choose for the book club after November (if you don't want the beer). Go to http://bebepool.com/babyaedo2

-Heather

Book Club Tonight!

Just wanted to remind everyone that book club is tonight! We hope to see many of you there (7pm at Rhonda's house)!

-Heather

Book Club date change to 9/28/10

Hi Everyone,

So I believe that we are changing the date of book club to next Tuesday 9/28. Hopefully, this date works better for others. Denise, we fully expect you to have read the book too since you have one whole week to do so :)

See everyone next week!

Heather

Book Club Tuesday September 21st

Hi everyone!

Just a reminder that book club is scheduled for next week, Tuesday 9/21 at 7pm. We will be discussing the book The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Mockingjay. If you haven't read any of the books they are both pretty easy reads.

Hope to see a lot of our members!

-Heather