December Meeting Minutes- Next club 12-29-13

Next book club December 29th 4:30 Jocelyn's house 107 Rollingwood Drive Boulder Creek Menu Jocelyn main - Meriah glasses - Ali drinks - Tristana will update menu order and text us for the next meeting December's book pick is Mrs. Poe by Lynn Collen Treasury report, we spent all the money at Scopazzi's, we have $15 in treasury We liked the book overall we gave it a 3.5 It was fast, fun, easy junk food read. Bring back the wand!

SCM BOOKCLUB Has been going strong for 6 years- Time for some fresh blood

After almost six long years of being a five woman club we have finally accepted a new member. We will be welcoming member #6 in November. All new members go through a 2 month probation period. Requirements are stated at induction. This is a big deal for us as we have been a closed club since the beginning and picking new comers out of the many that want to be in our club was not an easy task. there are many requirements to be accepted as scheduling can be tricky as it is with life. Welcome Jocelyn; hope you know what you're in for lol. 6 members in our 6th year. Totally a coincidence.

September Meeting Minutes 9-29-13

September 29, 2013 Meeting Minutes Treasurer's Report: Owe Maren $30.00 Dues: Julie's past $5, current$5; Maren past $5, current $5; Ali current $5, future $5. Meriah no dues- bday, Tristana paid. For Next Meeting: ANNIVERSARY (Year #6) * Book pick- Maren: little face by SOPHIE Hannah * Where: scopazzi * When: Oct 20, 2013- Sunday 5:00 * Menu Assignment Tristana Boehm- Scopazzi IV. Old Business: * How to spend treasury Food at resturants *Buy 25 stickers, [Add Artwork, favorite books The Help, red tent, twilight, life of pi, water for elephants, secret life of bees, 11/23/63, Gone Girl, Malice, Alchemist, Time Travelers Wife, The Kite Runner, Eat Pray Love, Dustlands, I'm Down, Under the Banner of Heaven, Are you there Vodka, it's me Chelsea] YEAR STARTED: Year we started October 2007 DUTIES: MAREN- can mac draw in books to our design?? Should we have someone else do it? VI. Discussion of book, Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman- Good Book New member: Jocelyn 2month trial. Show up, read book, participate. Start in November.

Next Month (October) is the 6th Year of SCM Bookclub

Anniversary Bookclub brings more then just six years of glorious reading and bonding. It also brings us a new little boy named Liam and Halloween. Maren since you will have a fresh new baby how can we help make this club easier on you? What should we plan to do as our event? Does anyone want anything special or specific for anniversary bookclub??

Bookclub- September Meeting at the Cowboy

Julie's Bookclub meeting has moved location to THE COWBOY BAR & GRILL. -Dues will pay for our food. - Maren to get Dessert (have dues reimburse you). BOOK: Orange is the new Black by Piper Kerman. MEETING TIME 4pm. -TRISTANA can Ali have a ride?? MAREN you are next book pick.

AUGUST MEETING MINUTES- Next Meeting 9-29-13

Call to order by Ali Scontrino No treasurer's report Julie's book pick Orange is the new Black by Piper Kerman Sunday September 29th club at Julie's 5 McLeod Scotts Valley at 4:30 Menu Julie Main Maren dessert Meriah drinks Ali salad Tristana side? Maren will host October Halloween Book Club We liked the beginning of book and story of home life, story had holes in it, interesting story but new author. Good for first book Our Menu, finger foods, grapes, wine, cheese, crackers, bread, chicken fingers, stuffed peppers

Next Bookclub 8/20/13 at 2pm

Hey all you ladies, I just wanted to remind us all that we need to buy the book and have it read by Tuesday August 20th. We will be meeting at 2pm.--------- I need to confirm where we will be having the meeting. There was talk about doing it at the beach. I cannot stay past 5:30 pm so if a bonfire is planned I will not be attending. I can only attend the bookclub part. This month is super busy and everyone is having birthdays, etc.......--------not to mention Meriah's bday is coming tooooo------------------I will send minutes from last meeting out shortly. TRISTANA please let me know if you want club at your house or somewhere else.

July Bookclub This Monday 7/29/13

Hey gals, Its that time again. Meeting Monday at 4:30pm at ALi's house. Tristana is sending a menu out to everyone so if you haven't heard from her get in touch. Please keep in mind that I will need to leave my house for work at 7:45pm so we will need to be done by that time. REVISITING the meeting day options; Mondays aren't going to work for me after this week. I have a class with students and money coming to my classes on Mondays at 6pm, then I work at 8pm. This gives crappy timing to meet not to mention I probably wont want to eat before working people out. So are options are few but here they are, please give suggestions as I would like to continue being apart of this club. MERIAH: If we moved club to sundays at 6 or 7pm would that work for Jim and you? Would a later time on Sunday work for everyone else? MAREN what is the Tuesday hang up for you again? Last option is that I will either have to visit club for an hour and bail or opt out for a few clubs. Maybe I can interject from a far. I don't know what to do but I would like any suggestions if you have any. Thanks ladys see you Monday.

Bookclub day

Is anyone interested in doing a bookclub breakfast like Sundays 8-10am? Or is this too early? Would this even work for you Meriah?

Book Reports

IDEA: We could each do a simple book report (template like a kids) and see what different takes come to the meeting table???????? Any thoughts?? see if this link works https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQkQeuD389MCgHoO3Cz-20dUX0AMKtgggGeoj22gGO_nPU5lrlj1XjDXs2RONUTSBtCWsuiTU5k3bwF4zmtdzLwo8Aj8fOBsXgBWQnkdA25Po4hQfGskRlB8HufQPH1lNJdO9Jd30pHyR/s1600/Book-report-one-page-fiction.JPG The link should take you to a simple book report form. Wanna do it???

June BOOKCLUB Minutes

TREASURY REPORT: We have $393 in the treasury- NEXT MEETING: Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight [Mystery/thriller]- LOCATION: Ali's House- MENU: Main Ali- side Maren- Salad Julie (JULIE BRING CUPS!)- Drinks Tristana- Dessert Meriah- WHEN: Monday July 29th 4:30 USE DUES FOR: Buy Capri pants [SCM Book Club Down the Leg], buy 25 stickers, [Add Artwork, favorite books The Help, red tent, twilight, life of pi, water for elephants, secret life of bees, 11/23/63, Gone Girl, Malice, Alchemist, Time Travelers Wife, The Kite Runner, Eat Pray Love, Dustlands, I'm Down, Under the Banner of Heaven, Are you there Vodka, it's me Chelsea] YEAR STARTED: Year we started October 2007 DUTIES: MAREN- can mac draw in books to our design?? Should we have someone else do it? Our thoughts on Have No Shame, book ended too quickly. Had a good meaning and good ideas, but was shallow, it felt young adult. We gave it an 11 out of 25 stars

Bookclub chapter assignment

Hey ladies, I've been checking out other bookclubs to see how different ones run themselves. I found a cool idea from one and wanted to discuss it at the meeting. An idea for club would be assigning chapters to be complete by a certain date. For instance if a book is 300 pages, that's 10 pages a day for the month. Or we could do something like week 1- read chapter 1-2, week 2- read chapter 2-5, etc...... This may help with larger books of 400 pages or more should we want to read a long paged book. This could help train us to read at least 10 pages a day, this could help make the reading seem like it takes less time. Just a thought. Let me know what you think.

June bookclub meeting: Monday July 1st at Meriahs

Bookclub has been changed to Monday July 1st at Meriahs house. Meriah is doing jambalaya and corne bread. Please let me know what sides and salads you are making so I know we have a menu.Ali is the next book pick so I have the following book picks to choose from, let me know your opinion: 1) Clockwork Orange, 2) delirium, 3) little face by Sophie Hannah, 4) Still missing by Chevy Stevens. Let me know your thoughts.

Bookclub May 19th Julie - minutes

Bookclub May 19th Julie Meriah owes dues from May Book pick for June Have No Shame by Melissa Foster For next month Monday June 24th 4:30 at Meriah's house Meriah main, Ali drinks, Tristana side, Maren salad, Julie dessert Treasury report: We would like to spend our dues on Capri pants, stickers For the future: Cookbook, support your local SCM bookclub Cookbook, Tristana will be taking pictures of our meals with our recipes We will replicate our favorite recipes to use in the cookbook Change of meeting day, Monday at 4:30 New members would like to be added. Our vote? We will discuss at next meeting. Mid month has been cancelled indefinitely Ali recommends the Goodreads book app Consensus we all liked the book, most didn't like the ending

Mid Month Movin on.....

Hello Ladies. So we can discuss further at the meeting but it seems best to suspend Mid Month for a bit. There is a lot going on in life and we all need our time. Not a big deal we can revisit the idea later on. Remember Mid Month was originally spawned because many of us at the time had more time and we wanted to spend it with each other. Life has drastically changed from where we were in the start of mid month and so it goes. Our main focus is Bookclub and reading and that we got down cold. So happy reading sistas. Drowning Ruth is pretty crazy.

Monday mid month at marens

Spring is here and the pool is open. Bring your suits and prepare to chill in the sun and pool. See ya all at 4 :)

Wool (Side Reads)

I am currently side reading a book called Wool. I am about 40% through the book and I when I'm not reading I'm thinking about the book. I think about the scenes that just played out. Flash through the beginning scenes. These books are like movies to me. That's why a slow book that doesn't capture the interest is hard to stay into. Anyway, I bought Wool at the airport in Tennessee. I actually got the real book instead of having it on my Nook. On the planes they make you turn your electronics off for at minimum 30 minutes. I can do a lot of reading in 30 minutes. So I got me a real book. It feels so nice in my hands. I love the feel of flipping pages, the smell of the paper and ink. Call me crazy but holding a tablet and clicking to the side will never be the same experience. Even folding the cover back on a paperback as you get into the story is a lost pleasure on the Nook. I digress, I am on a tangent, back to the book. I feel like the back cover gives me no information on this book. I still am not sure what is going to happen; I mean what the direction of the story is but it's keeping me in twined with the things taking place in each chapter. I have come to two points where I was about to think it's slowing down and then BAM! It sucked me in with another twist. I must know. I must know why Juliette is where she is. Why Holston and Allison went Outside. Who is the antagonist??? several theories but still I read on. So that's my review so far on Wool.

May-Julie's Club- Discussion topics [Maren add to agenda]

Hello ladies, So we have been doing most awesomely this fifth year. I am loving the way Maren does the agenda. I also love how it spells out our night's menu- brilliant Maren. Now we can back track the minutes and know what foods we want in the cookbook. The cookbook I think once completed [probably a few years from now] may be an item we can sell to family and friends and actually make money that cycles back to the club. People are always asking to join or what we are reading. If we had our most awesome book I bet it's be an awesome commodity. On another note: Meriah your treasury reports have been fabulous. You make it seem so easy. You have been tenacious at getting people to pay up. We missed our agenda run down this past month. So we should talk about how to spend our dues. Some topics to discuss as follows: ~Cookbook how to start compiling-where to start; ~DUES- How to spend; ~New shirts ~New stickers/magnets for our cars (Tristana is the last woman standing with our original) ~New Logo?- have we decided this yet?? ~Lastly off the top of my head; Meriah mentioned me not having anything to do so we should discuss this. Last meeting we didn't go by our new protocol. But in the past meetings since the change; I run the agenda, keep order, make sure I get the minutes from Maren. Post on site, I also pose questions for the discussions, email everyone, check in with Tristana to make sure the main person is communicating the menu, make sure mid month is happening, Check in with everyone to make sure we are reading-try to be as encouraging as I sometimes need as well. I make sure old unresolved topics resurface and get resolution. So much of what I do now is what I always did but now its not on top of minutes, menus,mid months, organizing, etc..It's just all behind the scenes and it's all about motivation and keeping things notified and on plan and not put off to the side and forgotten. Our passion is our club's lifeline. So Maren please add this blurb to the agenda. ~Oh yeah MAREN- I love the new Ipad way of doing the agenda; saves paper and its easy to quickly update and email for posting. Plus I was just thinking- you could copy and paste this post from our site and paste it into your note pad and then bam agenda automatically has the blurb. I think this could really be an awesome way to jump into the computerized age. Thought I'd share that idea. PS: Meriah are you getting these??? let me know if you aren't

April Bookclub: Meeting minutes 4-21-13

~Narrated by the Illustrious Maren Cellitti *We read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn *We all loved the book; but hated the ending. [Such a powerful batch of insanity and it stopped why oh why] *Food was an appetizer theme with buffalo chicken cups, beet salad, kabobs, taco wraps, baked brie, scalloped potatoes, and fruit tart for dessert For Next month [Julie's Pick], Drowning Ruth by Christina Shwarz Julie's house May 19th 4:30 pm Julie main, Maren dessert, Tristana Salad, Ali Side, Meriah Drinks Mid month May 6th 4 pm Ali's house Treasurer's report: we had a total of $343 in our treasury, we will discuss what we want to do with our dues at a future meeting

Book postings and club interaction

Hey gals, I was thinking of starting to blog about what I like about the books Im reading and what I don't and just blogging about reading as that is what we do in this club. I was hoping that maybe everyone could log on here and there and blog your thoughts/feelings/opinions about books we are reading for club, books you are reading on your own and books you wish you could read. I am trying to get our blog more used and possible get people commenting and suggesting book ideas. Anyways wanted to see how you all felt about blogging every once in a while.

Mid month April 15th Ali's house- Julie need confirmation

Is this still a go??? Julie have you done any prep for this???

April Meeting: April 21st- Maren's House- Gone Girl

Ok gals start reading if you haven't already. I don't know about you but this book is awesome. I hate having to go to work when I know I need to find out what has happened to Amy. It's more mysterious then Malice (where you just don't know who the culprit is). Anyway please read everyone. I'd really like to get a good discussion going about this book. So many topics: Relationships; secrets in marriages/relationships; How chicks think emotionally in regards to relationships. I am going to bring some of Amy's diary entries where she gives option A,B,C.... and its kind of interesting cuz I know I do that when Im in an argument in a relationship. READ PLEASE!!!!! Bring a topic that interests you to the meeting. BOOK: Gone Girl Gillian Flynn HOME: Maren's House FOOD: Maren main, Tristana dessert, Ali Salad, Meriah Side, Julie Drinks Mid month April 15th Ali's house Next month we'll discuss treasurers report, what we want to do with dues. I got a new shirt guy we could use if we want to use our money for new duds?????

March meeting Minutes- Malice- Tristana's House

We read Malice by Lisa Jackson We agreed that it was a fun, action-packed read. No one except Meriah was able to guess the killer's identity until the end. Food was a southern theme with Grits, shrimp, pulled pork, Gorgonzola cream sauce, BBQ sauce, salad, punch. For Next month, Gone girl by Gillian Flynn Maren's house April 21st Maren main, Tristana dessert, Ali Salad, Meriah Side, Julie Drinks Mid month April 15th Ali's house Next month we'll discuss treasurers report, what we want to do with dues

Bookclub January 20th @ 4pm- Meriah's House

Don't forget to read your January book ladies- Revenge by Stephen Fry. Mid Month Bookclub is on January 14th (Monday) at 4pm- Ali's House. Bookclub- Sunday January 20th @ 4pm - Meriah's House. Maren to get me "New Business" items and new meeting format. Next Book pick is Ali: Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Tristana to get the menu out. Announcements: Ali's bday on Thursday January 31st. You guys wanna do a potluck or get together or something???