Summer pick

Has anyone aside from Keiko and me read One For The Money yet? What did you think?

I chose our book for July, Little Bee by Chris Cleave. The back cover of the book encourages the reader to just dive into the book without knowing much about the story.. the story is THAT special! I will give you a taste. Little Bee is a young Nigerian refugee in London who has the contact information of a British reporter, and their lives intertwine and affect one another from the moment they met. It's great. I don't do the book justice of course. But please read it and we'll discuss!

Summer Series

As discussed at our successful breakfast meetup, it would be nice to introduce a lighthearted, easy read for the summery months. Insert Renee's suggestion for the chick lit series that is being made into a movie.

Introducing the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. Reading the synopsis on Amazon.com, the first of the Stephanie Plum series, One For The Money, introduces Stephanie Plum, a female professional down on her luck who takes a job as a bounty hunter on the hunt for a murder suspect. I don't do the book justice with my forward description, but it sounds pretty fun: mystery with a little bit of action and romance. I'm sure the heroine will have tons of humorous quips in the book as well.

So what do you say? Want to read the first book and take it from there? Erin Reed suggested meeting at Sprinkles for our next meet up... yum!

The Help meetup

In no particular order: Tessy, Renee, Keiko, Erin and Erin
(picture courtesy by a girl named Melissa who is also part of a book club)

Hey Ladies!

We chose The Help by Kathryn Stockett as our book club pick for March. I thought I'd throw out some dates so we can synchronize our social calendars and meet up to discuss. How does Saturday, April 3rd sound? Would you like to switch it up this time and meet for some breakfast/brunch somewhere tasty and off the beaten path?

I know that April 3 is the day before Easter and some of you might already have plans for that weekend. We could always meet another weekend or sometime in the evening during the week for dinner. Keiko, I know you are still reading The Help and Erin Reed wants to read The Help after you. Maybe we can meet up on the 10,11 or a different week to give Erin enough time to read the book.

I look forward to seeing all of you! Is anyone reading anything interesting right now? Please share on our book blog!

-Erin H.

Give Credit Where Credit's Due

I forgot to mention in my last post, claiming The Help for March's book pick, that Renee was the one who initially suggested The Help as a book club book for all of us to read. Thanks for throwing it out there, Renee.

The book swap was a success. I'm happy to know there are some other people out there interested in reading about Henry VIII and the Spanish Civil War... not as a combined topic, different yet equally interesting.

March's Unofficial Official Book

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and claim the book for March:

The Help, by Kathryn Stockett

You can read a synopsis of The Help from Kathryn Stockett's website by clicking here.

I've already read it, and I really enjoyed how the author developed every character and you really could understand everyone's perspective in explaining their actions during the Civil Rights Movement in 1962+ in Jackson, MS. Please read it, it's a wonderful novel.















On another note, if anyone is interested in posting suggestions for books for us all to read, or if you want to post a topic about a particular book, etc.. that would be awesome. But don't feel like you have to if you don't want to... I just hope you don't get sick of my posts.

Hope to see you all at Wildflower on Sunday afternoon! Keiko, I hope Erin can make it! If you don't have any books to swap, no biggie either.

Book Swap

Hello to my fellow book enthusiasts!

Tessy and I are tossing around the idea to meet up for a book swap at Wildflower Bread Company in Mesa. We can all casually get together, bring a book or two to swap (or giveaway if that's what you wish. Tessy will collect a deposit for the books (ahem, children) she loans out... kidding!), and if you Wildflower seems like a great place because you can grab a dessert, dinner, drink.. whatever you feel like.

Tessy suggested Sunday afternoon, February 28th... how does that sound?

Is anyone interested in reading about the Spanish Civil War??? Because I have a ton of books on that. jk. I promise I'll bring something someone else would be interested in reading.

The Help

Who here has read it? Who is going to read it?