Next Month's Book

Hey there book club fans. If you haven't checked out Martine's blog recently, she got the date! Read about it here.

We need to choose the next book. Here are three choices. I'll let you read about each of them and then you can send me an email (bethmensing@hotmail.com). Vote for one and hopefully we'll get a simple winner. I'll take votes until Thursday the 5th and announce on Friday the 6th.

Saving Fish from Drowning, Amy Tan

Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen

Widow of the South, Robert Hicks

I hope everyone is happy and healthy and we can all get together in early August to discuss our next book.

Discussion of June's Book - Kite Runner

I hope everyone is good with this. I've only gotten three positive responses, but if we don't have a critical mass to discuss the book and/or choose a new book, we'll just enjoy each other's company and the work of the brewmaster at Rock Bottom.

I will be at Rock Bottom next Tuesday, June 26th, by 6:45 for a 7:00 dinner with you all. I'll make a reservation for 8-10 depending on what I hear from the rest of you ladies. We'll have drinks, food and I'll bring a couple of choices for next month.

If we don't have at least 6 for bookclub, I can't see us picking the new book. Yea? Feedback?

Thank Yous All Around!

I am writing thank you cards to give you all at the next meeting, but because we have not scheduled it yet and I am not sure when we will....:) I wanted to say a big

Thank You!!

on behalf of Nate and I (and of course, Noah!) for the wonderful book club shower gifts. For those of you who went in on the group gift, the onsies are super! The Exersaucer rocks!! (For those of you that do not have kids, you may be thinking what the heck did we get them?...I have never heard of an "ExerSaucer"! ... I, myself, have only just been exposed to the concept in the last couple of months...click here to see a picture.) We also love the Whoozit, which I have been told is a must have! (Okay, again I am providing a link for those of you that may be asking yourselves whatever happened to the baby items with recognizable names...like diaper, bottle...I assure you this is way cooler!) :)

I cannot wait to bring Noah home to meet you great people and to use all his fun stuff!

Thanks Again!

Oprah's Book Club

So in the land of Book Club Goodness I think we have attempted to avoid Oprah's Book Club choices. A few of us were discussing the fact that Oprah was announcing her latest choice this week. We were placing bets on which book she would choose. I can't even remember what we thought it was going to be. I think I had too much "punch" at the baby shower. There it is was on the v-cart, with the orange seal of Oprah's approval, a lifeless stack of trade paper books. Anyhoo, the book was placed on the tables at Barnes & Noble on Monday night after close ready for the lemmings to come pick it up on Tuesday morning.

Yea, we picked it as a choice a few months back. I think we have good taste. I think it's kind of a strange choice for Oprah. But maybe it's kind of safe because it won the Pulitzer. Who knows? She probably didn't pick it anyway. I can see the faces of the women coming in to pick it up, the twinge on their faces when they read the back cover. What's her motivation with this one?

Maybe I'm just way off base.