FIELD TRIP #2

I hope you received the email and responded, but just in case here it is:

We have tickets to hear Barbara Delinsky on Wednesday, February 25th at Scott Theatre, 3505 W. Lancaster in Fort Worth. It starts at 7:00 p.m., but the tickets are not reserved, so you must be seated by 6:50 p.m. From what I understand, there will be an overflow room, so you might want to get there as early as possible.

The first 10 people that email me will get a ticket. We will start a “waiting list” if necessary. I know some of you mentioned that you would like to bring a friend. We will put friends on the “waiting list” until all of the regulars have had a chance to respond. Let me know if you would like a ticket and we can work out the logistics.

I believe she will be autographing her latest book that was released this week, “While My Sister Sleeps”.

To see other books written by Barbara Delinsky go to www.barbardelinsky.com

I'm pretty excited. This our second book club "field trip" and we haven't even been meeting a year. (Our first one was to see Ron Hall and Denver Moore who wrote "Same Kind of Different as Me". They will be at Pantego Bible Church speaking this Sunday.)

If you are unable to go, we will miss you ... hope you're enjoying our book this month, I AM!!

FEBRUARY MEETING

Here is our February picture! We had a fun meeting again. Those that read the book all agreed that it was very slow at first, but once it got going, we couldn't put it down! I thought it was a great discussion about the book. And the members that read it didn't tell us how it ended so that we would all have to finish it to find out. After all ... as the Panera Bread employee that heard us talking said ... "I thought the purpose of a book club was to read the book!" We all got a good laugh out of that. Sooo ... let's all try to finish the next month book (myself included!)

Here is our selection for March ... The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. The authors are Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. A few of our members have read it and they highly recommend it!

Also, it looks like we WILL have tickets to this event! It is February 25th. Here is the information. http://www.star-telegram.com/books/story/1159792.html
I hope everyone will be able to join us for the field trip. I will email more information to everyone when we know for sure!

FEBRUARY BOOK

I heard from several members that were having trouble finding the book we had chosen for February. Sorry about that! Going forward, we will check before we vote and be sure that the book is available.

So let's go with another book that was nominated ... (and I just checked to make sure, and it is available at Amazon and also at Borders!)

Read the synopsis below the book. I think you're going to want to run out and get this one today!

"Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone from her own deeply dysfunctional Vanger clan. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate."

Sounds like a great mystery!!!

JANUARY 2009 MEETING

Here is our January group! I hope everyone had as much fun as I did! Domestic Affairs was a great book for us. We haven't had a book in a while that everyone liked, so it was fun discussing this one. Everyone who read it liked it! We really liked the fact that there was so much going on in the book, with lots of characters and side stories, it was a great read!

The discussion was a little different because we had a few people that hadn't read the book and one person who hadn't finished it yet, so we sort of told the story to them and added our opinions as we went along. I thought it was a lot of fun.

We had 2 new members (or should I say prospective members) ... I sure hope they come back! Welcome Kathy and Myra! They will be a great addition to the group!

And now to what you really want to know ... the book for February. We have been wanting to branch out and read a mystery ... so that's what we picked. The book is titled "The Lady Godiva Murder" by Laurie Moore.

Don't be scared off by the book cover ... as they say "You can't judge a book by it's cover." It does look different ... (not exactly the ice cream sundae look that we have chosen before)!

So even if you aren't "into" mystery ... let's all give it a try!

STAR TELEGRAM ARTICLE

One of our members saw this in the Fort Worth Star Telegram and entered us in the contest. We will let you know if they call and want to feature us!

http://www.star-telegram.com/books/story/1089447.html

DECEMBER MEETING

Our December book was A Cedar Cove Christmas by Debbie Macomber. I think we all enjoyed the book, but it was a little too predictable and simple. Not that we think we are trying to read intellectual books by any means, but this was not one of our favorite books. I think the consensus was that it was a little cheesy with the Wyse men!

We are still searching for a good mystery to read, but haven't decided on that one yet.

So put this one on your Christmas list ... for our January book we decided on a fiction book titled "Domestic Affairs." The author is Eileen Goudge. Here is a video clip by the author. http://www.domesticaffairsbook.com/video.html I think we will enjoy reading this one! Let's start now so that we aren't sitting in the parking lot finishing it on on January 6th ... our first meeting in 2009!

NOVEMBER MEETING

Here we are at the November book club meeting. Apparently I forgot to post it after the meeting and several people commented that they looked for it! I'm happy to hear that people are reading the blog.

We read The Necklace and really enjoyed it! We had a great meeting and discussion about it. I think everyone really enjoys reading nonfiction books.