December '15/January '16 Book Club Pick

Hello friends,

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our last book club!  We had a great time discussing Still Alice. Our next book club pick is The Birth House by Ami McKay. We are going to aim for meeting sometime mid-January.

Happy reading!

November meeting, change of meeting place

Hello,

Instead of meeting at the restaurant, Barbara will be hosting book club and we'll be meeting at 8:30 pm this Thursday, Nov. 19th at her home! Chuck is out of town, so this way, Barbara can join us.  Text Barbara if you need their address.

See you Thursday!

November Book Club meeting

Hello friends,

Hopefully most of you have gotten to read or are currently reading our book pick, Still Alice.  We'll be meeting to discuss on Thursday, November 19th at 7:00 pm at La Provance. Hope you all can make it!

See you then.

Fall 2015 Book Pick

Hello friends,

This fall we will be reading Still Alice by Lisa Genova.  It's a pretty quick read so hopefully everyone will be able to read this one.  I'm thinking we probably won't meet until sometime in early November so you should have plenty of time!

Happy reading!

August 2015 Book Club meeting

Hello friends,

Hope you have started or maybe finished our latest book club pick, Z: A novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.  We have a fun afternoon planned for this month's book club!  Saturday, August 29th we'll be wandering down to Tracy Stewart's neighborhood of Silverton, OR.  We'll plan on being there around 3 pm so those of us from the Tigard area can plan to carpool down about an hour earlier. We can wander around downtown, grab some coffee or tea and then head back to Tracy's house.

Hope you can join us!

Our next book club pick--Summer/Early Autumn 2015

Hello friends,

Our next book club pick will be Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler. I just read this book and thought it would be a great pick for book club. It's a fictionalized version of the life of Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby. Below is a synopsis for you to read. The book is easy to get at the library and inexpensive on Amazon if you want to purchase it. I also found it helpful to have my phone with me while I read so if I came across a name of an artist or actor I didn't recognize, I could look it up. It helped me gain a better idea of who the people were the Fitzegerald's associated with and the "atmosphere" of the times.

Happy reading!

Synopsis:

When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long, the "ungettable" Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Scott isn't wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner, and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame. Her father is deeply unimpressed. But after Scott sells his first novel, This Side of Paradise, to Scribner's, Zelda optimistically boards a train north, to marry him in the vestry of St. Patrick's Cathedral and take the rest as it comes.

What comes, here at the dawn of the Jazz Age, is unimagined attention and success and celebrity that will make Scott and Zelda legends in their own time. Everyone wants to meet the dashing young author of the scandalous novel--and his witty, perhaps even more scandalous wife. Zelda bobs her hair, adopts daring new fashions, and revels in this wild new world. Each place they go becomes a playground: New York City, Long Island, Hollywood, Paris, and the French Riviera--where they join the endless party of the glamorous, sometimes doomed Lost Generation that includes Ernest Hemingway, Sara and Gerald Murphy, and Gertrude Stein.

Everything seems new and possible. Troubles, at first, seem to fade like morning mist. But not even Jay Gatsby's parties go on forever. Who is Zelda, other than the wife of a famous--sometimes infamous--husband? How can she forge her own identity while fighting her demons and Scott's, too? With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Fowler brings us Zelda's irresistible story as she herself might have told it.

June Book Club Meeting

Hello friends,

Hopefully you've been busy reading our latest pick, Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan.  If you haven't read it yet, you still have time! We will be meeting to discuss this book on Thursday, June 11th at 7:30 pm at La Provence in Progress Ridge.

Hope you can make it!

Spring book pick

Hello friends,

Our next book pick was a recommendation by Mary: Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan. We'll try to meet sometime in May. Happy reading!

Book Club lives again!!

Hello friends,

We are finally kicking off 2015 for book club! We'll aim to meet at the end of March so you should have plenty of time to read our next pick. We'll be reading Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel by Maria Semple.

Happy reading, friends!