October/November

Hey there bookclub world. We're reading a long one, so we better take our time.

Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos

I will be hosting at my apartment. Meeting on Wednesday December 2nd at 7 PM.

Here's what we didn't pick.
Pieces of the Heart by Karen White
Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson, with Gabrielle Charbonnet

For those of you who like to get the book right away, or at least go pick it up and not place an order and wait for delivery, I've got a little tip for you. At Barnes & Noble.com, which I have included hyperlinks to each of the titles, you can actually check the stock of the local stores. Just enter your zipcode and it will check the stock. You can click 'Pick Me Up' and it will send a message to the store to pull the book in your name. You will receive an email from BN.com once a bookseller has located the book and placed it on hold for you. You will have 3 days to pick it up from the cash registers at the store. Great feature, yes?

You can also purchase directly online - including used copies that are less expensive.

If you would like to give your business to my Barnes & Noble store (#2921 - 4550 University in WDSM), we can certainly place an order to be shipped to the store. As always, I am willing to purchase multiple copies at a discounted rate if anyone is intersted. Just shoot me an email and I can work it out.

Peace out home skillets.

Next Month's Selection - Poisonwood Bible

Hello ladies. We had a lovely time at Vanessa's home. Thank you for hosting even though you weren't feeling the greatest. The falafel was awesome.

We got to visit with Finn. What a cute little man. I even got the pleasure of being spit up on! Sweet!

We have selected The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver for the March title. We will be meeting at Amy's home in Ankeny on Wednesday April 8th at 7 PM. Directions will follow closer to the date.

For those of you that are interested, the Chrysalis Foundation (funder of the after school groups I work with) will be hosting their annual HerStory event on Tuesday April 21st. It is not nailed down, but fairly certain that it will be at the Scottish Rite Consistory at 6th and Park from 5 to 7. We will have Lolo Jones as our honored guest. There will not be a lot of marketing for this event. It is not a fundraising event, although donations are accepted at the event. It is merely an opportunity for the girls to showcase what makes their group unique, visit with other Chrysalis After School (CAS) participants and community members. They also recognize a handful of juniors and seniors in high school who have been a part of CAS in the past and continue to thrive as young women. It's a really nice event. I will send an invitation via email when that is created.

Books we didn't select:
The Stone Diaries
My Life in France

Recipes
please email me if you didn't get the attachments in the email(s) I sent to the group.

That's all for now!

As always, it was great to see you all!

beth

January/February Book Update

Hey there ladies. We will be meeting in about 6 weeks. We will meet on Wednesday March 4th to discuss Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott at Vanessa's home. She lives near Martine, so explicit directions will have to follow closer to the date. At that point, we will have a new member to our book club family. Meghan is due any day and wishing it were tomorrow I'm sure. Hang in there lady. You're doing a great job. Hopefully we will get some quotes from the delivery suite posted in her blog either during the labor or shortly following the birth of the little fella.

Some of you were requesting recipes. I'm trying to find a way to add them to the blog site. I'll figure it out over the weekend.

Later folks. I've got some connect the dots page-a-day calendar to do.

beth