May Book Club

See below for the May book choice.

Our May book club will tentatively be held on Thursday May 26th at 7:30 p.m. This is the Thursday before the Memorial Day weekend. Does this not work for people? Would you rather have it the first Thursday of June? Let me know, please!
Camilla

May Book!!!!!

I have decided to pick "The Heretic's Daughter" by Kathleen Kent as our May book. I couldn't place a book club hold on it since there were no copies checked in, so you are advised to place your own hold. There are two publishing years (2008/2009). I think that there are NO holds on the 2009 version, so get that one if you want to get it quick. The book is a little over 300 pages, so hurry!

Amazon's Synopsis: A family's conflict becomes a battle for life and death in this gripping and original first novel based on family history from a descendant of a condemned Salem witch. After a bout of smallpox, 10-year-old Sarah Carrier resumes life with her mother on their family farm in Andover, Mass., dimly aware of a festering dispute between her mother, Martha, and her uncle about the plot of land where they live. The fight takes on a terrifying dimension when reports of supernatural activity in nearby Salem give way to mass hysteria, and Sarah's uncle is the first person to point the finger at Martha. Soon, neighbors struggling to eke out a living and a former indentured servant step forward to name Martha as the source of their woes. Sarah is forced to shoulder an even heavier burden as her mother and brothers are taken to prison to face a jury of young women who claim to have felt their bewitching presence. Sarah's front-row view of the trials and the mayhem that sweeps the close-knit community provides a fresh, bracing and unconventional take on a much-covered episode.

.:Tonite:.

Just a reminder that book club is at my house, TONITE, at 7:30 p.m.

Can't wait to hear what you all thought of Princess!

.:April Book Club:.

Alrighty, I'm just going to stick with this Thursday, April 28th at 7:30 p.m.

I'm sorry for those who will be out of town, or going to the RS activity, or otherwise. It is just too difficult to accommodate everything!

Hope to see everyone - come even if you haven't read! I'll have treats. :)

.:Take Two:.

Thanks Camilla, for reminding me about the Stake Women's activity on May5th.

I definitely want to go to that, so we won't have book club that nite.

If we want to keep it on a regular Thursday nite, then I'll do it this coming Thursday, April 28th.

Seems like that will probably be easiest. Any major conflicts with that nite?

Sorry, I know that is coming up quick and we may not have all been able to read the book.

Still come, though, either way!

.:April Book Club:.

I hope everyone is enjoying reading Princess!

I'm thinking of doing book club the first week in May, which would be May 5th.

I figure this will give people extra time to read the book since we got started a week late!

I haven't decided if we'll do it at 7:00 or 7:30 yet, but I'll keep you posted.

May Book Club preview

I haven't actually read either one of these books yet, but they come to me highly recommended. Anyone have a preference?

Choice #1
A Proper Pursuit by Lynn Austin
Synopsis from Amazon: Christy award-winning historical novelist Austin delivers her strongest offering yet, a coming-of-age story set in late-19th-century Illinois. The great strength of this novel comes from the first-person narrator's charming voice: 20-year-old Violet Hayes is distressed to learn that her father is remarrying-and that her mother, whom Violet believed lay recovering from a mysterious illness in a sanitarium somewhere, had in fact simply abandoned her family and filed for divorce. To escape a stepmother-to-be she can't stand, Violet heads to Chicago to stay with her grandmother and great-aunts. Although she's recently graduated from a genteel school for young ladies, it's in Chicago that Violet's real education begins. One great-aunt tries to persuade her to join the suffrage movement, while another introduces Violet to elite society and urges her to catch a wealthy husband. Her grandmother, who takes her cues from Jane Addams, introduces Violet to the world of revivalist Christianity and inner-city good works, prompting Violet to re-examine her own faith. Two questions drive the plot: will Violet find her mother, and will she encounter true love? Readers will enjoy accompanying Violet as she discovers the answers, her calling and her adult self.

Choice #2
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Synopsis by Amazon: Rubin is not an unhappy woman: she has a loving husband, two great kids and a writing career in New York City. Still, she could-and, arguably, should-be happier. Thus, her methodical (and bizarre) happiness project: spend one year achieving careful, measurable goals in different areas of life (marriage, work, parenting, self-fulfillment) and build on them cumulatively, using concrete steps (such as, in January, going to bed earlier, exercising better, getting organized, and "acting more energetic"). By December, she's striving bemusedly to keep increasing happiness in every aspect of her life. The outcome is good, not perfect (in accordance with one of her "Secrets of Adulthood": "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good"), but Rubin's funny, perceptive account is both inspirational and forgiving, and sprinkled with just enough wise tips, concrete advice and timely research (including all those other recent books on happiness) to qualify as self-help. Defying self-help expectations, however, Rubin writes with keen senses of self and narrative, balancing the personal and the universal with a light touch. Rubin's project makes curiously compulsive reading, which is enough to make any reader happy.

.:April Book Club:.

Alrighty, two people cast their vote, so it looks like we will be reading:

Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

By: Jean Sasson

It is a really interesting book, and there are two subsequent books as well, so hopefully you'll like it enough to keep reading!

Since I totally dropped the ball and am getting this info out late, do we want to meet the last week of April, or the first week of May?

Let me know your thoughts, it really doesn't matter to me!

Book Club update...

Sorry! For some reason, my mind skipped over April! Summer is up for April...any ideas Summer? I can reserve them at the library once you decide. Thanks!
Katy

Book Club Info.

Hey Girls!
Just looking over the yearly schedule and wanted to let ya know that June and August are up for grabs. If anyone has a book you've been wanting to share, you're welcome to do another month. No pressure though. I know the summer can get pretty busy. Camilla is up for May...does that still work Camilla? What are we reading? =) Thanks for all the ones who have gone already. It's been a fun year of reading so far!