April 2010

The Geography of Bliss
Eric Weiner

It's about a guy who goes to all the happiest places on the earth.

Melissa - lead discussion & organize meeting time
Tori - pick next book, organize and lead next time
Kate - Food
Jess - beverage
Mindi - food
Amy - host and call
Ana - beverage
Tracy - food
Cecily - beverage

January 2010

Coastliners, by Joanne Harris

Cecily - lead discussion & organize meeting time
Melissa - pick next book, organize and lead next time
Tori - Food
Kate - beverage
Jess - food
Mindi - host and call
Amy - beverage
Ana - food
Tracy - beverage

November Is Lovely, Grey & Brown

Blood & Chocolate by Somebody (my mother just left...I'm accepting some slack)
Date: SATURDAY, November 14, 2009, 7/7:30 pm

Tracy - lead discussion & organize meeting time
Cecily - pick next book, organize and lead next time
Melissa - beverage
Kate - food
Jess - host and call
Mindi - beverage
Amy - food
Ana - food/beverage (the wild card position)

Next Book: Coastliners, by Joanne Harris
http://www.amazon.com/Coastliners-Novel-Joanne-Harris/dp/0060958014
http://www.joanne-harris.co.uk/pages/bookpages/coastliners.html
There will be no discussion about choosing a different book because, I do not have a back up book chosen. This one is about as close to perfect as Crescent was. But I'm ok if you hate it...my skin is as thick as 4 boxes of fabric from my childhood left behind by my mother waiting for my sister & I to dispose of as we see fit. Quilting party anyone?

August/Sept. Meeting

Waiting for Teddy Williams by Howard Frank Mosher
Date: (anyone's guess)

Ana - lead discussion & organize meeting time
Cecily - pick next book, organize and lead next time (*unless the next month is October, then I'm squeezing Tracy in because she's excited & has a special plan)
Melissa - beverage
Tracy - food
Kate - host and call
Amy - beverage
Mindi - food
Jess - food

You can read about Mosher at:
http://www.howardfrankmosher.com/about/index.html

Below is from a review by Publishers Weekly:
In Mosher's ninth novel (after The True Account), one of the funniest and most
heartfelt baseball stories in recent memory, the Boston Red Sox beat the
Yankees to win their division, then go on to whip the Mets to win the World
Series. Eight-year-old Ethan "E.A." Allen lives in the rural Vermont village of
Kingdom Common. Redheaded, fatherless and home-schooled, E.A. longs to do two
things in life?play baseball for the Red Sox and find out who his father is.
E.A. is raised on a run-down farm by his smart, cheerful mother, Gypsy Lee, who
writes wacky country-and-western songs, and his grandmother, a mean old biddy
who swears Bucky Dent's home run in 1978 put her in a wheelchair for life. One
night a drifter called Teddy with a mysterious connection to the Allen family
shows up at the farm, and soon he's giving E.A. tips on batting, fielding and
baserunning. Nine years later and after countless adventures, E.A. is a hotshot
pitcher. Aided by Teddy and Cajun Stan the Baseball Man, E.A. ends up pitching
for the nearly deflated and defunct Red Sox. His big league adventures are a
riotous string of baseball antics involving even more screwball characters like
the Sox manager, Legendary Spence, whose talking macaw, Curse of the Bambino,
sits on his shoulder in the dugout and torments him by saying, "New York
Yankees, number one." This is a baseball fantasy, a warm and hilarious tale of
dreams come true.

*Tracy is very excited to pick a book for October so I'm going to tweak things so she can. Also, for what she has planned she requests we make October bring a friend month.

June/July Book Club Meeting

June/July Book Club

Divisadero by Michael Ondaaje
Date: Sunday, July 12, 7/7:30

Jess - lead discussion & organize meeting time
Ana - pick next book, organize and lead next time
Cecily - beverage
Melissa - food
Tracy - host and call
Kate - beverage
Amy - food
Mindi - food

May Book Club Meeting

May Book Club

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Date: Sunday, May 31, 7/7:30

Mindi - lead discussion & organize meeting time
Jess - pick next book, organize and lead next time
Ana - beverage
Cecily - food
Melissa - host and call
Tracy - beverage
Kate - food
Amy - food

April 2009

Next Book Club date: Sunday, April 26, 7/7:30pm

Here's the list of who does what for April:

Amy - lead discussion, organize (Time Traveler's Wife)
Mindi - pick next book, organize and lead next time
Jess - beverage
Ana - food
Cecily - host and call
Melissa - beverage
Tracy - food
Kate - food