When Rabbit Howls - Pictures!

May 2012: When Rabbit Howls

HOSTESS: Connie

PAGES: 400

PUBLISHED: 1990

REASON CHOSEN:  "It received great reviews.  And...my dark passenger told me to."

MEETING DATE/TIME: Thursday, May 24th, 6:30pm

Truddi Chase began therapy to discover why she suffered from blackouts. What surfaced was terrifying: she was inhabited by 'the Troops'-92 individual personalities. This groundbreaking true story is made all the more extraordinary in that it was written by the Troops themselves. What they reveal is a spellbinding descent into a personal hell-and an ultimate deliverance for the woman they became.

Sarah's Key Recap

Great BC meeting last Thursday ladies!  Thanks for hosting Cathy!  Here is how the scores turned out...

Sarah's Key: Average Rating (out of 10): 8.4

Monica 10
Corinna 6
Oona 8
Connie 8
Lindy 9
Britt 7
Cathy 9
Laura 10

April 2012: Sarah's Key

 

HOSTESS: Cathy

PAGES: 320

PUBLISHED: 2008

REASON CHOSEN:  "I chose this book because it was on multiple best seller listings and got rave reviews. Also it was recommended for bookclubs because it provokes great discussion."

MEETING DATE/TIME: Thursday, April 26th, 6:30pm

 

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.

Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'Hiv', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.

 

Hunger Games - Perfect 10!

Yes, it's true!  The Hunger Games is now our highest rated book club read!  With a perfect average score of 10.  Wow!  What a great book.  Oona did a wonderful job keeping with the theme by serving lamb stew and wonderful cheeses and meats.  I just wish I could've been there.  I miss my book club :(

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

HUNGER GAMES TRAILER!

I cannot wait!  I'm hearing this could be a big record breaking opening weekend!

MARCH 2012: The Hunger Games

HOSTESS: Oona

PAGES: 384

PUBLISHED: 2008

REASON CHOSEN:  "It's a light read compared to my last and has been getting rave reviews by everyone, including my 4th grade students"

Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death – televised for all of Panem to see.
Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love.