Tag: Book Club

May 2014

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We are bringing in the spring this year with some Chinese food at a local restaurant for our May’s monthly meeting. The book was Harlan Coben’s Missing You.

online datingCoben starts off with his protagonist, Kat Donovan, a New York detective, looking through an online dating website that her friend signed her up for.  Dating is sure different from the last time I had a date.

After reading the book I don’t know if I’d ever do online dating now.  Read my review of the book under Reviews on the right side of the website.

Most of us actually read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Keep reading!

April 2014

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This month’s book was “The Invention of Wings,” by Sue Monk Kidd.  What a great book!  See my review on the right under the author’s name.

We had a small group this month, but as always we had fun. The only problem was the place we chose to have book club was way-too-loud.  It was difficult to talk and it hurt our discussion.

We may begin May’s book club with some discussion on this month’s book.  It was that good.bfbc april 2014-1

September 2013

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We had a lovely time at Fran’s house for book club. Our book was “We is Got Him,” by Carrie Hagen.

This was the true story of the first kidnapping for ransom in the United States.  The ladies liked learning about the story, but it was not a favorite pick. Sometimes nonfiction reads a little slower, and it can be tedious (see review under Reviews to right).   The kidnapping received a great deal of media coverage with both Philadelphia and New York papers at the time of the kidnapping.  It produced a lot of outrage from the public. The public had become emotionally attached to this horrible crime. So, the media stayed with the story for a long time, and inadvertently told the world about this new kind of crime. The rest is history.

May’s Book Club – 2013

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We met on May 10th for our monthly book club.  The book was “The Coldest Night,” by Robert Olmstead.  What a  beautifully written book!  (See my Review on the right under Olmstead).  Although we had mixed reviews at book club about the book, everyone agreed it was really well written.  Some of the  ladies didn’t like the love story, which created some lively discussion.   The love story left some flat.  But the depiction of the war in North Korea is harrowing, and I couldn’t put the book down while I was reading it.  CNN even did a story about how Hollywood has basically ignored the Korean War entirely and certainly never produced any movie on the battle at the Chosin Reservation.  The Korean War has at times been called the forgotten war – sandwiched between the all-encompassing WWII and the highly-contested Vietnam War.   I love books that I learn something from and this book is full of information and beautifully presented.   The Chosin battle is scarier than any horror novel I have read, but what a read.

Overall, a wonderful night with friends and a wonderful book.