Book Club Meeting

This month's book club meeting is finally scheduled, yay!!

What: Book Club meeting #3
Where: Carmike Theatre on 9 mile rd
When: Friday September 18th at 7:30pm

***We will be discussing The Time Traveler's Wife as well as picking next month's hostess and genre...I will put a post up after the meeting with all the details of the next book and tentative meeting date.

***If you would like to be this month's hostess then please let me know :-)

7/26/09 Meeting Notes

We had a great time at Olive Garden for Sunday Lunch and wish that you all could have been there!! Here are some notes from the meeting:

I. Overall everyone enjoyed "Keepsake Crimes" and a few of the members are even continuing on with the series (Yay!!)...Here are some of the questions that Bridget asked us...

1. Consider the ending...Did you expect it or were you surpried by what happened? Was is neatly wrapped up or was it unresolved?
--None of us guessed who the murderer was and definietly did not expect the reasoning behind the murder...It was wrapped up for the most part but we all wanted to know what happend with Carmela and Shamus ( I am personally hoping that they get back together, bc I really liked him!!)...We all loved the invisible ink (clever Carmela!!)

2. Can you pick out a passage that strikes you as particulary profound or interesting?
--"Never argue with someone who buys ink by the gallon"

Fun Facts:
-St. Cyril's Cemetery does not exsist in New Orleans
-Oven wall vaults are used in St Louis Cemetery in New Orleans
-Vanishing ink pens for scrapbooking do exsist!

II. Next Book Club Meeting
--The next Book Club Hostess is Samantha
--This month's book is "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
--Can be purchased at Barnes and Nobles for $14.95
--The next book club meeting will be held at the Rave movie theatre to enjoy a showing of this movie (Time and date to be determined at a later time)

Summary:
"The Time Traveler's Wife is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry finds himself periodically displaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.

2nd Meeting

Only 10 days left until our second book club meeting...We will be discussing "Keepsake Crimes" by Laura Childs....

Where: Olive Garden (Bayou Blvd)
When: Sunday July 26th @ 11:30am

I hope that you all can make it!!

New Book!

The new book for the July 26th meeting is "KEEPSAKE CRIMES" by Laura Childs.

• ISBN-13: 978-0425190746
  


• Paperback


• $6.99


• In-Stock at Barnes and Noble

Summary:

As the bawdy Pluvius parade rolls through the streets of New Orleans, something goes very wrong atop the giant sea serpent float. Carmela Bertrand, owner of Memory Mine, a scrapbooking shop in the French Quarter, is shocked when a body is suddenly handed down - a dead body! If that isn't bizarre enough, her soon-to-be-ex husband, Shamus Meechum, quickly comes under fire as the number one suspect! As Carmela kicks off a new round of scrapbooking classes and designs a commemorative scrapbook for St. Cyril's above-ground cemetery, Shamus appeals to her for help. And Carmela uncovers an important clue in a very unlikely place - one of her customer's scrapbooks!

Hope Everyone Likes It!

6/13/09 Meeting Notes

We all had a fabulous time at ScrapHappy on Saturday!! I would like to say a special Thank You to Christy for showing us all how to make a fabulous acrylic book!! Check out the pics below!!

I. Next Book Club Meeting

• The next book club meeting will be July 26, 2009. We will be meeting at Olive Garden for lunch (time to be announced later).


• The hostess will be Bridget
  
• The group decided the next book will be from the mystery genre
  
• The next book will be announced by Thursday June 17, 2009
  

II. Discussion of "Marked"

• Would you like to read any more of the books in the series?

The group decided that they would rather read the other books independently rather then reading them as a group.

• Comments about the book:

Mary-"As an adult, I enjoyed the read, but for teenagers I would not recommend this book."

Favorite Character-Zoey's grandma

LeAnn-"It was an easy and enjoyable read. It made me thirsty for blood."

Favorite Character-Damien

Erin-" I really liked how this book was a mix of Twilight and Harry Potter...I wanna go to Vampire school!!"

Favorite Character- Stevie Rae

Bridget-"I did not like this book because it deals to much with worshipping a goddess and I didn't care for the rituals."

Favorite Character-Zoey's Grandma

Samantha-"I enjoyed reading this book. I already finished the other 4 as well. I think everyone should read the rest of the series."
Favorite Character-Zoey

Book Club Meeting Agenda for Saturday June 13th

I. Welcome!!

II. Future Meeting
A. Discuss next book club book
a. Genre?
B. Volunteer hostess for next meeting
C. Set next book club meeting date
a. Last Sunday in July? (July 26th)
b. Afternoon or morning?
c. Open discussion
D. Birthday/Email Spreadsheet

III. Discussion of “Marked”
A. Did you like this book?
B. Would you like to read any more of the books in the series? Or have you read any of the other books in the series and what did you think of them?
C. Who was your favorite character and why?
D. Any other remarks?

IV. Acrylic Album Class with Christy 10:30-12:00

V. Lunch 12:00-1:00

VI. Wrap-up

New Moon Trailer

Check out this preview of the "New Moon" movie coming out on November 20th...I can't wait!! We all need to get together and go to the midnight showing...Let me know if you are interested LOL!!

P.S. Jacob is a total stud in this preview!!

Click this link!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_rNI3QVQbA