I just wanted to share with yall,

After 2,444 pages I have finished reading the Twilight saga. (Thanks to the persistent coaxing from Dixie) I admit that I really enjoyed reading the books even thought the last one seemed a little off. Oh well. I even saw the movie and loved it! Can't wait for the next book club meeting so I can see it again with Dixie and Granny.

Book for March

Granny Case is hosting this month and she picked the book "The Beach House" by Mary Alice Monroe.

We will meet on March 21st at 1:00 pm. Dixie will send an email with the address. Hope to see you all there!

Here is a little about what the book is about.

Cara Rutledge may start believing bad things do come in threes. She lost her job; her boy friend knew she was unemployed before she did but failed to tell her making her wonder about their relationship; and her mother, needing to see her, asks Cara to return to South Carolina. Reluctantly, Cara decides to visit her mom Lovie, a card-carrying member of the Turtle Ladies.

In Isle of Palms, South Carolina Cara learns that her mom is dying. Still, the pending mortality fails to ease the acrimonious estrangement between mother and daughter that grew over the years faster than the cancer destroying Lovie's body. Time is running out and if this pair cannot reconcile their differences through their love for one another, both will go to their graves filled with regret.

February Book Pick

Dixie is hosting this month's book club meeting and the book she has picked is "Hopeless Romantic" by Harriet Evans. The meeting will be held at Dixie's home on Feb. 21. An email will be sent prior to that Saturday with the time. Hope you all can come and I hope you all get a chance to read the book. ( Even if you have to skip to the end to see if the girl ends up with the guy ) :)

January book club meeting in review...

I personally had fun hosting our meeting in January. I enjoyed reading the book and I think we had good discussions about how we felt about the book. I can't wait to read the sequel.
As promised here is the recipe for the chili I made.....

White Chicken Chili

1 can of chicken stock
2 cans of white great northern beans
1 chopped onion
2 cups of cooked cubed chicken
1/4 cup of green chili's
salt and pepper to taste

Combine all the ingredients together and bring to a boil for 5 minutes stirring often. Let mixture simmer for 20 minutes.
Stir in 1 cup of sour cream and 1 cup of heavy whipping cream.
Serve with cheese and tortilla chips.

January Book Club Meeting

Our book club meeting will be on Jan. 24 2009 at 12 noon.
We will meet at Brittany's house in Peachtree City, here is the address...

53 Braelinn Creek Court
Peachtree City 30269

If you get lost you can call Brittany or Dixie.

The book for January is Beautiful Lies By Lisa Unger.

Hope to see you all there.

December: Woman in Red

Our host for the December book was Becky.

We enjoyed sandwiches, chips, "homemade" dip and tasty brownies. We even decided to take a group picture and start this blog. I think we all pretty much enjoyed this book. Here is a little about what the book was about....
From New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge comes Woman in Red, a powerful story of love and redemption and what one woman will do to overcome the buried secrets of her past.

Alice Kessler spent nine years in prison for the attempted murder of the drunk driver who killed her son. Now she’s returned home to Gray’s Island to reconnect with the son she left behind. Her boy, Jeremy, now a sullen teenager, is wrongly accused of rape, and mother and son are thrown together in a desperate attempt to prove his innocence.

She’s aided by Colin McGinty, a recovering alcoholic and 9/11 widower, also recently returned to the island in the aftermath of his grandfather’s death. Colin’s grandfather, a famous artist, is best known for his haunting portrait, “Woman in Red,” which happens to be of Alice’s grandmother.

In a tale that weaves the past with the present, we come to know the story behind the portrait, of the forbidden wartime romance between William McGinty and Eleanor Styles, and the deadly secret that bound them more tightly than even their love for each other. A secret that, more than half a century later, is about to be unburied, as Alice and Colin are drawn into a fragile romance of their own and the ghost of an enemy from long ago surfaces in the form of his grandson, the very man responsible for sending Alice to prison.

New book club blog.

Welcome to the brand new blog for our book club.
We can use this to add additional thoughts about the book that we read for the month or we can use it to comment on other book that you are reading on your own.