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.

Run For Your Life: Recap

Great too see you all last night!  Congratulations to Cathy for winning your first quiz!!


RUN FOR YOUR LIFE AVERAGE RATING (out of 10):  6.3

Corinna 6
Connie 6
Britt 7.5
Rachel 6
Monica 8
Caitlin 5
Cathy 4
Laura 8

New Pictures!!



And the Winner Is....

BUTTERFLY!  Of Course!  A book about women fulfilling their wildest fantasies.  With this group of women...I should have known this would be the winner :)

The Second Place Book is...

Congrats to Meg and Corinna for selecting our favorite books of 2011! 

Cast Your Vote! Best Book of 2011!

It's that time again!  Can you believe we just completed our 2nd year together as the BCBRNO?! 

 

Now we get to vote for our favorite book of the year!  Below are the books we read in 2011.  Please email me with your #1 and #2 votes for the best book of the year as soon as you get a minute! 

 

I can't wait to see which book wins!!

 

   

 

 

 

February 2012: Run For Your Life

HOSTESS: Laura

PAGES: 384

PUBLISHED: 2009

REASON CHOSEN:  "James Patterson has always been one of my most favorite authors and I received the book for Christmas."

MEETING DATE/TIME: Thursday, February 16th @ 6:30pm

A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences! For some, it seems that the rich are finally getting what they deserve. ForNew York's elite, it is a call to terror. Only one man can tackle such a high-profile case: Detective Mike Bennett. The pressure is enough for anyone, but Mike also has to care for his 10 children-all of whom have come down with virulent flu at once! Discovering a secret pattern in The Teacher's lessons, Detective Bennett realizes he has just hours to saveNew Yorkfrom the greatest disaster in its history. From the #1 bestselling author comes RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, the continuation of his newest, electrifying series.

2012 Book Club Schedule

January 19th - Corinna
February 16th - Laura
March 22nd - Oona
April 26th - Cathy
May 24th - Meagan
June 21st - Connie
July 26th - Rachel
August 30th - ???
October 4th - Britt
November 8th - ???
December 13th - Monica

JANUARY 2012: Then Came You

HOSTESS: Corinna

PAGES: 352

PUBLISHED: 2011

REASON CHOSEN: "I love the author!"

MEETING DATE/TIME: Thursday, January 19th @ 6:30pm

Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior with a full scholarship, acquaintances instead of friends, and a family she’s ashamed to invite to Parents’ Weekend. With the income she’ll receive from donating her “pedigree” eggs, she believes she can save her father from addiction.

Annie Barrow married her high school sweetheart and became the mother to two boys. After years of staying at home and struggling to support four people on her husband’s salary, she thinks she’s found a way to recover a sense of purpose and bring in some extra cash.

India Bishop, thirty-eight (really forty-three), has changed everything about herself: her name, her face, her past. In New York City, she falls for a wealthy older man, Marcus Croft, and decides a baby will ensure a happy ending. When her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to technology, and Annie and Jules, to help make her dreams come true.

But each of their plans is thrown into disarray when Marcus’ daughter Bettina, intent on protecting her father, becomes convinced that his new wife is not what she seems…

With startling tenderness and laugh-out-loud humor, Jennifer Weiner once again takes readers into the heart of women’s lives in an unforgettable, timely tale that interweaves themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and donorship, the rights of a parent and the measure of motherhood.