September Meeting 2010

We had a great time at Sharon's with our September pick, The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Karen M., Gloria, Karen T., Debbie, Diane and Stephanie, and of course Sharon, were in attendance. Sharon served a wonderful Oriental salad and yummy chicken and also pork egg rolls. We had a good discusion and everyone enjoyed the book.
We did notice a WW Two theme this year with several of our books taking place during that time.
We also discussed a new venue for our 20th WOW anniversary. This will be in Jefferson Tx in Janurary. I hope that everyone has seen the emails from Karen M. filling us in on the various activities for the book club anniversary.

NEW BLOG FEATURE

I am going to try to provide a link to each book, starting with Sharon's October 2010 book selection. If you click on the cover of The Corner of Bitter and Sweet you can go to a review or information about the book. Thanks to "The Other Karen" for providing links to our October and November books. I have also posted a link for our December meeting at Buca de Beppo. This should give us a little more information about each of our books or activities.

August Meeting

We had our August meeting at Joyce's house to discuss People of the Book by Geralding Brooks. Joyce served a wonderful pasta salad, a green salad, croissants (I don't know if there's spell check on this) and delicious lemon and/or cinnamon cakes. Yum!
After visiting and catching up we sat down to discuss the book. It was very well liked by all. We loved the fascinating research that this book required and how clever the format was to involve different stories for each article found within the book. We discussed several of the main characters to try to explain internal motivations and conflicts. Lots of religious practices were compared and contrasted. The main thing we felt from this book was how sad it is the people throughout history including the present, have seemed to feel a need to dominate and eliminate other cultures and religions. Wouldn't it be great if we could all work together to save and honor one another like the characters worked together to save this precious religious book?

People present included: Joyce, Angie, Karen Massey, Gloria, Linda, Barb, Margie and Diane.
Thank you Joyce for the book choice, the wonderful food, and the fine hospitality.

Respectfully submitted by Margie 8/24/10

JULY MEETING 2010

Meeting information submitted by Stephanie

Simply Bloodsucking!!

· General consensus was the book was well written

· The characters were described vividly by the author

· The reviews did not match WOW readers interpretation, until we began watching the movie

· Oh Mylanta, we had to turn off the TV and go back to discussion

· I had to bring the meeting to order a couple of times, but Gloria justified the group was not ‘bird-watching’

· Dinner was light; therefore, the group didn’t mind indulging in the array of M&M’s

· Linda was quite the character for the evening

· We missed those group members absent

MUSIC on the BLOG

Did you know that you can easily change the music that is on our blog? If you scroll down to the bottom on the page you can select from a variety of songs and/or music. Simply click on the music you'd like to listen to on Music Therapy for You during your visit to the blog.

JUNE MEETING 2010

At the June Meeting we had a good discussion about the book The Help. We discussed Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny's feelings. We also discussed Constantine's daughter. The majority of the group felt that the author left out some important background information about her father. We thought that maybe Skeeter's father was her father also. It's up to you to decide.
In the picture chocolate pie is being enjoyed by the group. They said that the pie was delicious but maybe also suspicious! Everyone did eat the pie and no one reported anything odd.

WICKED

Wicked Review by Gloria
We had a great time. Linda, Corinne and I rode the TRE and Dart to Fair Park from Richland Hills. Debbie met us at Fair Park Theatre as she had company to get back for. The play was fabulous. The sets were incredible. So were the costumes. As could be expected, it’s not the entire book that we read (that was quite a tome, wasn’t it?), but the story hangs together quite well, and of course, the ending was much happier than the book. All of the actors were wonderful: the voices were terrific, and the acting funny and extremely well choreographed. And in a sort of quirky way, it’s really primarily about the friendship between 2 women—a great plot for WOW women. I could go on and on, so I’ll stop. But, we’ve really ought to do a special event like this at least once a year. It was so much fun.
Oh, one more thing!: When we switched to Dart, we ended up sitting in front of a lady and her husband (also on their way to see Wicked) and we struck up a conversation. She was in a book group, too (and like Linda, was an Aggie Mom.) We talked books all the way to Fair Park. She recommended a couple of interesting books, and we recommended some to her. It was amazing how many of the same books our two groups had read!