A good time was had by all! 
Monday, August 26, 2013
One Thousand White Women August 22, Denise, PF Changs
We actually met on June 20th at Cherie's house.
PF Chang's was awesome Ladies. I forgot to post this month so I am post posting. LOL. We have photos that must be uploaded pronto!
August 22nd book was Denise's pick. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, by Jim Fergus
One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time
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PF Chang's was awesome Ladies. I forgot to post this month so I am post posting. LOL. We have photos that must be uploaded pronto!August 22nd book was Denise's pick. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, by Jim Fergus
One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
May 30th Cherie - The Orchardist
MAY 30th
Cherie's house 7pm
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
At once intimate and epic, The Orchardist is historical fiction at
its best, in the grand literary tradition of William Faulkner, Marilynne
Robinson, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, and Toni Morrison.
In her stunningly original and haunting debut novel, Amanda Coplin evokes a powerful sense of place, mixing tenderness and violence as she spins an engrossing tale of a solitary orchardist who provides shelter to two runaway teenage girls in the untamed American West, and the dramatic consequences of his actions.
BTW... This is our official 5 year anniversary! We started May of 2008!
In her stunningly original and haunting debut novel, Amanda Coplin evokes a powerful sense of place, mixing tenderness and violence as she spins an engrossing tale of a solitary orchardist who provides shelter to two runaway teenage girls in the untamed American West, and the dramatic consequences of his actions.
BTW... This is our official 5 year anniversary! We started May of 2008!
Monday, March 25, 2013
April Book Club Dana
Beautiful Ruins
http://www.amazon.com/
The acclaimed award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet. Hailed by critics and loved by readers of literary and historical fiction, Beautiful Ruins is the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962...and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.
Also...
let me know if this is okay with you guys...
April - Dana
May - Cherie
June - J.C.
July - Denise
August - Amy Jones
September - Amy Gall
October - Jennifer Malin
March 21 Kimbril at PJ Changs
"A Grown Up Kind of Pretty" by Joshilyn Jackson
A GROWN-UP KIND OF PRETTY is a powerful saga of three generations
of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet
inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey
Slocumb-spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood-is shaken when a small
grave is unearthed in the backyard, and determined to figure out why it's
there. Liza, her stroke-ravaged mother, is haunted by choices she made as a
teenager. But it is Jenny, Mosey's strong and big-hearted grandmother, whose
maternal love braids together the strands of the women's shared past--and who
will stop at nothing to defend their future.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
February 21 - Paula - location TBA
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a
lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr.
Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the
international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band
of gunwielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a
panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite
different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected
bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends,
and lovers.
March 21 - Kimbril
April - Dana
May - Cherie
June - J.C.
July - Denise
August - Amy Jones
September - Amy Gall
October - Jennifer Malin
Let's discuss a night out in April at the next book club. BRING CALENDARS
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