Hi all,
So I am super late at getting this out, but a lot has been going on at the end of the year! The Perks of a Wallflower was liked by all that read it. It was also a super fast read and short.
I can't remember what date we decided for book club in January (Rhonda, do you remember?), but we are reading In The Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
Happy Birthday Denise!
-Heather
Friday, December 28, 2012
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Book Club 12/12/12
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to send out a reminder that book club is this coming Wednesday (12/12/12, a pretty cool date for book club!). It is at 7pm at Rhonda's house. The book that we are discussing is The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
See you then!
Heather
I just wanted to send out a reminder that book club is this coming Wednesday (12/12/12, a pretty cool date for book club!). It is at 7pm at Rhonda's house. The book that we are discussing is The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
See you then!
Heather
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Book Club Recap 11/14/12
Attendees: Tania, Rhonda, Lisa, & Heather
Denise we are sorry that you have the stomach flu and we hope that it goes away soon and doesn't lead to any panic attacks! Lucky me, Anderson now has the stomach flu and puked all over me right after I had finished my shower and got dressed today :( Poor kid!
Anyway, we discussed the book A Sense of Direction by Gideon Lewis-Kraus. Only Tania and myself read the book, but both Rhonda and Lisa were on the Camino section. We all thought that the book was slow in the beginning, but that it picks up more with each pilgrimage. Tania liked it more when Gideon was by himself on the Japanese pilgrimage because he got to discover more about himself then. We both thought that the last Pilgrimage that he did with his dad and brother was the best. I really had hoped that he would go into more with that trip because it was the most interesting and his dad seems like a really interesting character. I didn't think that this book was as good as Wild, but I really enjoyed how the author's experience seemed like reality and how any one of us would act while doing the journey (like the times he talks about going on Facebook or the interactions with Tom). I think that Tania really liked the book and I only thought that it was so-so.
We then discussed movies and all agreed that Argo and Flight were really good. We got on the subject of Eat, Pray, Love and talked about how much we did not like that movie and thought that the casting of Julia Roberts was really bad. We talked about Rhonda and Raven's adventures with the Hollywood Bowl. We talked about work and Tania showed us some cute pictures of dogs at her office. We talked about eating and what everyone's plans were for Thanksgiving. I hope that everyone can stay healthy for Turkey Day! Rhonda made a delicious pear bread (Christopher says thank you!).
Lastly, Rhonda was telling us about this delicious dish that her friend Gary had made and I got the recipe! Pumpkin Stuffed With Everything from NPR's All Things Considered. Enjoy!
-Heather
Denise we are sorry that you have the stomach flu and we hope that it goes away soon and doesn't lead to any panic attacks! Lucky me, Anderson now has the stomach flu and puked all over me right after I had finished my shower and got dressed today :( Poor kid!
Anyway, we discussed the book A Sense of Direction by Gideon Lewis-Kraus. Only Tania and myself read the book, but both Rhonda and Lisa were on the Camino section. We all thought that the book was slow in the beginning, but that it picks up more with each pilgrimage. Tania liked it more when Gideon was by himself on the Japanese pilgrimage because he got to discover more about himself then. We both thought that the last Pilgrimage that he did with his dad and brother was the best. I really had hoped that he would go into more with that trip because it was the most interesting and his dad seems like a really interesting character. I didn't think that this book was as good as Wild, but I really enjoyed how the author's experience seemed like reality and how any one of us would act while doing the journey (like the times he talks about going on Facebook or the interactions with Tom). I think that Tania really liked the book and I only thought that it was so-so.
We then discussed movies and all agreed that Argo and Flight were really good. We got on the subject of Eat, Pray, Love and talked about how much we did not like that movie and thought that the casting of Julia Roberts was really bad. We talked about Rhonda and Raven's adventures with the Hollywood Bowl. We talked about work and Tania showed us some cute pictures of dogs at her office. We talked about eating and what everyone's plans were for Thanksgiving. I hope that everyone can stay healthy for Turkey Day! Rhonda made a delicious pear bread (Christopher says thank you!).
Lastly, Rhonda was telling us about this delicious dish that her friend Gary had made and I got the recipe! Pumpkin Stuffed With Everything from NPR's All Things Considered. Enjoy!
-Heather
Friday, November 9, 2012
Book Club Next Week 11/14
Hello everyone!
I just wanted to send out a reminder that book club is next week. Here are the details:
When: 11/14/12 at 7pm
Where: Rhonda's house
What we are reading: A Sense of Direction by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
We hope to see you there!
Heather
I just wanted to send out a reminder that book club is next week. Here are the details:
When: 11/14/12 at 7pm
Where: Rhonda's house
What we are reading: A Sense of Direction by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
We hope to see you there!
Heather
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Book Club Recap 10/10/12
Attendees: Denise, Heather, Karen (Christopher's sister), Lisa, Raven, Rhonda, Tania, and Tina.
Due to having so much to do this summary is going to be short, sorry!
We discussed Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn first. We all liked the book and thought that it was a page turner. We also thought that the wife was a psycho and wished that the husband would have done something to her instead of staying with her.
Next a few of us discussed Stoner by John Williams. It sounds like it was a very well written book, but a little depressing. I just want to let everyone know that I just got my email today from the library saying that my e-copy is ready. Of course it would be ready the day after book club! I do think that it is pretty cool that you can check out a book from the library onto your Kindle or other e-reader device (I checked for our next book and it isn't available).
We discussed gardening, marriage, kids, jobs, gameshows and we hope Denise gets on the one she auditioned for, and I can't remember what else. It was fun though!
Here are the details for the next book club:
When: Wednesday 11/14/12 at 7pm
Where: Rhonda's house
What we are reading: A Sense of Direction by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Hope to see you then!
Heather
p.s. Rhonda made some delicious lox!
Due to having so much to do this summary is going to be short, sorry!
We discussed Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn first. We all liked the book and thought that it was a page turner. We also thought that the wife was a psycho and wished that the husband would have done something to her instead of staying with her.
Next a few of us discussed Stoner by John Williams. It sounds like it was a very well written book, but a little depressing. I just want to let everyone know that I just got my email today from the library saying that my e-copy is ready. Of course it would be ready the day after book club! I do think that it is pretty cool that you can check out a book from the library onto your Kindle or other e-reader device (I checked for our next book and it isn't available).
We discussed gardening, marriage, kids, jobs, gameshows and we hope Denise gets on the one she auditioned for, and I can't remember what else. It was fun though!
Here are the details for the next book club:
When: Wednesday 11/14/12 at 7pm
Where: Rhonda's house
What we are reading: A Sense of Direction by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Hope to see you then!
Heather
p.s. Rhonda made some delicious lox!
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Book Club Next Week Wednesday 10/10
Hello!
Just a friendly reminder that book club is next week on Wednesday 10/10 at 7pm at Rhonda's house.
We will be discussing:
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and Stoner by John Williams
Hope to see everyone!
-Heather
Just a friendly reminder that book club is next week on Wednesday 10/10 at 7pm at Rhonda's house.
We will be discussing:
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and Stoner by John Williams
Hope to see everyone!
-Heather
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Book Club Recap 9/5/12
Attendees: Callah, Denise, Lisa, Heather, Michelle, Raven, Rhonda, Tania, and Tina
Since Skippy Dies by Paul Murray was a bit on the long side I don't think many people wanted to read it. Lisa read about 500 pages of it and I read the whole thing. The overall impression of the book from both Lisa and myself was that it wasn't that great. We thought that he really could have condensed the story a lot and focused more on just the story of why Skippy died. We thought that the story was promising, but wasn't as engaging because he dove into a lot of different characters and what was going on with them. We thought that he was too wordy and used a lot of words that had to be looked up in the dictionary. We thought that the writing was really good, unlike 50 Shades! I also didn't like how I never got the answer of why Skippy died. I don't think that I missed that part in the book, but that is something I would have liked to know. Lisa and I both said that we wouldn't recommend it to others to read because it was too long and not a captivating enough story to want to pick it up and read it all of the time. Valesca, we are very interested to hear what you thought about the book!
Since there were only two of us that read the book the discussion was really short and we continued on to the more entertaining topics of the night, which were as follows:
-Denise and Rambo are like a grocery store these days! They make delicious food items and if you are lucky enough you can pick some up at their house :)
-Public school lunches/food. Callah said that the other day they were serving bean and cheese burritos for lunch, yikes!
-All of Rhonda's vacations
-Memory. Rhonda is convinced that she is going to get Alzheimers, but I'm not so sure!
-Rhonda & Tina's vacation. I think it's planned for the 28th-1st?
-Books & what we should read next
-Food and how this should be a food club instead of a book club
-SPANX
We decided for sure on one book (listed below), but because Michelle and I already read the book and since it was a fast read we decided on two books for this next month. Since I was the only one that read the book and because we couldn't decide what to read next I was given the task of picking book #2. Below is the information for the next book club!
When: Wednesday October 10th 7pm
Where: Rhonda's House
What we are reading: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and..........
Stoner by John Williams First, Tania I could not remember the title of the book that you recommended. I found some books about that "pilgrimage," but none of the titles sounded right to me. Perhaps we can read that book next time. The choice of our next book was between this and The Light Between Oceans. Both sounded really good, but Stoner had a little bit higher rating (both were in the 4 star range). Stoner is also only 288 pages and the shorter of the two. I also looked it up at the Los Angeles Public Library and Stoner has available copies, but the other book does not, which means there will be a long wait time.
I hope to see many of you there!
-Heather
Since Skippy Dies by Paul Murray was a bit on the long side I don't think many people wanted to read it. Lisa read about 500 pages of it and I read the whole thing. The overall impression of the book from both Lisa and myself was that it wasn't that great. We thought that he really could have condensed the story a lot and focused more on just the story of why Skippy died. We thought that the story was promising, but wasn't as engaging because he dove into a lot of different characters and what was going on with them. We thought that he was too wordy and used a lot of words that had to be looked up in the dictionary. We thought that the writing was really good, unlike 50 Shades! I also didn't like how I never got the answer of why Skippy died. I don't think that I missed that part in the book, but that is something I would have liked to know. Lisa and I both said that we wouldn't recommend it to others to read because it was too long and not a captivating enough story to want to pick it up and read it all of the time. Valesca, we are very interested to hear what you thought about the book!
Since there were only two of us that read the book the discussion was really short and we continued on to the more entertaining topics of the night, which were as follows:
-Denise and Rambo are like a grocery store these days! They make delicious food items and if you are lucky enough you can pick some up at their house :)
-Public school lunches/food. Callah said that the other day they were serving bean and cheese burritos for lunch, yikes!
-All of Rhonda's vacations
-Memory. Rhonda is convinced that she is going to get Alzheimers, but I'm not so sure!
-Rhonda & Tina's vacation. I think it's planned for the 28th-1st?
-Books & what we should read next
-Food and how this should be a food club instead of a book club
-SPANX
We decided for sure on one book (listed below), but because Michelle and I already read the book and since it was a fast read we decided on two books for this next month. Since I was the only one that read the book and because we couldn't decide what to read next I was given the task of picking book #2. Below is the information for the next book club!
When: Wednesday October 10th 7pm
Where: Rhonda's House
What we are reading: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and..........
Stoner by John Williams First, Tania I could not remember the title of the book that you recommended. I found some books about that "pilgrimage," but none of the titles sounded right to me. Perhaps we can read that book next time. The choice of our next book was between this and The Light Between Oceans. Both sounded really good, but Stoner had a little bit higher rating (both were in the 4 star range). Stoner is also only 288 pages and the shorter of the two. I also looked it up at the Los Angeles Public Library and Stoner has available copies, but the other book does not, which means there will be a long wait time.
I hope to see many of you there!
-Heather
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