tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75258315607895980542012-02-16T21:35:39.573-05:00Our Little Book Club's BlogSumGreaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663850963947080840noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525831560789598054.post-68807547569267308092010-03-27T23:28:00.004-04:002010-03-27T23:37:40.850-04:00

Starting over after last year's fizzled book club efforts, we held our first Book Club meeting for 2010 on St. Patrick's Day. It was well attended and fun. We decided on a format and meeting time and will keep it up this time! We'll be meeting on the third Wednesday of each month from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. We'll either meet at the church or the home of that month's host. If you're hosting,

SumGreaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663850963947080840noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525831560789598054.post-66305888334899291172009-06-01T13:13:00.002-04:002009-06-01T13:16:03.398-04:00

This blog has not been updated for a while and so I vote to delete it. What do you think everyone? This was a great idea, the clubs and all, but really who has the time? I haven't even been blogging on my own blog as much as I use to. This is my opinion of course, just let me know what is decided.

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106090169677593047noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525831560789598054.post-82712244284614326992009-03-11T15:08:00.002-04:002009-03-11T15:20:46.461-04:00

After further discussion, it's been decided that we'll read Friend Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg for March. I'm hoping we can get together to watch the movie and then talk about the differences between the two. Ideally, this would happen at a time we didn't have to bring the children. We'd also like to meet in a home instead of at the church since last time there were only four of us and we

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We are still searching for copies of The Abyss. Even if we buy them, we won't be able to all read them within the next two weeks, I think. So, what do you think about choosing another book with a movie for March and coming back to The Abyss in the future, with copies of the book already in hand?If you think we should do that, we need to pick a book like right now. So, what do you think? You

SumGreaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663850963947080840noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525831560789598054.post-11606290598446722012009-03-04T14:43:00.004-05:002009-03-04T14:46:12.181-05:00

I can't find The Abyss at the library, but here is a whole heap of cheap copies from www.half.comhttp://product.half.ebay.com/The-Abyss_W0QQprZ30271548QQtgZinfoI'll buy one today or tomorrow. If you get one, maybe you could post, so we can know who has it and share with each other.We still need to choose a date for the book club--preferably a time we could hang out and watch the movie together,

SumGreaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663850963947080840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525831560789598054.post-73987525470654132822009-03-02T11:01:00.003-05:002009-03-02T12:10:15.434-05:00

Like a lot of teens, Erick's friends are obsessed with Vampires, thanks to Twilight. He told me that they are crazy about this other series by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. (They are mother and daughter) I thought, huh, maybe it will be interesting to look into. So I sent Jason to buy the first out of the four books in the series. Of course he got me the fourth book and we argued the fact that it

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When we met today, after talking over Pride & Prejudice and Austenland, we decided maybe we should have a looser format for future books. So, for the next little while, we're going to be reading books that have been made into movies and vice versa.Our first pick is "The Abyss" by Orson Scott Card. This one was actually written after the movie, based on the screenplay, which is an unusual route.

SumGreaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663850963947080840noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525831560789598054.post-40065531239186861852009-02-02T21:11:00.002-05:002009-02-02T21:26:51.622-05:00

I would like to throw a few books out there for next month or some other time. I suppose this would be included in my personal list when we get those started, but I am excited about a few.The first is The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov. This was my first introduction into Russian literature besides the well-known Tolstoy and Dostoevsky works. This book is challenging but so much fun! It is

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01530650237396180943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525831560789598054.post-43065147703820146392009-01-28T22:47:00.002-05:002009-01-29T00:01:29.834-05:00

I was not sure if I got the okay for this but I thought you should know that there has been a new obsession of mine, and that is the discovery of a series of books, by Charlene Harris called the Sookie Stackouse Novels (The titles all have the word dead in them). Right now there are eight books, the ninth is coming out in May and the tenth is being written. They are simple enough for me to read

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106090169677593047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525831560789598054.post-40000242579214503802009-01-25T23:01:00.003-05:002009-01-25T23:04:44.901-05:00

Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos is a book a good friend of mine recommended. The premise is intriguing to me and the bit of text I read online had a very conversational style, which I tend to like. But other than that, I know nothing about it except for that it's been checked out a lot and that Augusta and Waynesboro both have 1 large print available, right now and more that are checked

SumGreaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663850963947080840noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525831560789598054.post-61384929894669235152009-01-25T19:08:00.004-05:002009-01-25T19:19:58.488-05:00

Jennie asked if we ought to post whenever we read something we feel like talking about. I think we should. It can be a book forum and not just a book club. What do you guys think? For my part, I just read an adolescent fiction book by Sharon Creech called Bloomability and I LOVED it. It made me wish I could go back to Switzerland...so fun. I also wish there were a sequel.I don't want to

SumGreaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663850963947080840noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525831560789598054.post-40646065492981238812009-01-22T14:59:00.002-05:002009-01-22T15:22:26.463-05:00

Okay, here are some ideas with descriptions from Amazon (I haven't read any of them)Jane EyreHaving grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent and spirited survivor—qualities that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret

Megnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525831560789598054.post-15869989099657262662009-01-21T23:04:00.002-05:002009-01-21T23:07:31.172-05:00

We've decided a romance is in order for the lovey month of February. We talked about reading 2 perhaps--a delightful Emma by Jane Austen and the fun and light Austenland by Shannon Hale, perhaps. We even mentioned The Host by Stephenie Meyer which is an unusual, but interesting romantic science fiction novel. What do you think? What suggestions do you have for a nice romance?

SumGreaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15663850963947080840noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525831560789598054.post-9327393642680277362009-01-21T15:13:00.004-05:002009-01-21T23:30:36.624-05:00

We had our first book club meeting today and like so many committees, we decided on nothing definitively. Obviously, we decided to start a blog for better communication. We also broke down the rest of the year into categories so we could experience varied genres. Here is the general rundown:February: RomanceMarch: Current issues/political/non-fictionApril: SpiritualMay: MotherhoodJune: Western/

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