Thursday, August 20, 2015

PLEASE NOTE UNDER ANNOUNCEMENTS- MARENS BABYSHOWER NOTED THE LAST TWO MONTHS

REMINDER: THE LAST TWO MEETING MINUTES ANNOUNCED MAREN'S BABYSHOWER; THIS SATURDAY AT 2PM.

Hope all the bookclub ladies will be attending..


July 19, 2015 Meeting Minutes
July 19, 2015 Book Club Notes
$$$ - Balance of $472. Paid: Jocelyn, Ali, Julie, Meriah, Tristana no pay for birthday. Maren owes.

Next book club is Aug. 30th – Hosted by Ali at Meriah’s new house. Pool Party!!!! This will be Meriah’s birthday club.

Book is A Thousand Splendid Sons by Khaled Hosseini 432 pgs.

Next book pick is Tristana, possibly Fight club by Chuck Palahniuk 224 pgs.

Next date proposed is Sept. 20th.

Book Pick Order – Ali, Tristana, Maren, Julie, Meriah, Jocelyn


Duties: Ali- Main, Tristana- Drinks, Maren- Salad, Julie- Side, Meriah- Dessert, Joe- Glasses /App

Dinner: Zucchini turkey/chorizo tacos, Cheese/dip platter, Beet salad, Homemade tomatillo salsa, Greek fro yo with mini peanut butter cups, sliced strawberries and whipped cream.

Announcements: Ali- House warming party on Aug.15th Jocelyn- Cy’s play running July 29-Aug 2nd Tickets at LPRT.org

Tristana- Birthday BBQ at her house Aug4th. Kitty was hit by a car, but lives on  Maren- Pool time baby shower is Aug 22nd at 2:00. Need to think of pool games. Julie- Had a great trip in Maui, got a new tattoo. Feeling really happy with new boyfriend Chris. Hosting a Damsel’s in Defense party on Set 13th, 4:00 at Bailey Property Management building in SV.
Meriah- Moving to Bonny Doon. Birthday is Sept 1st, maybe a pool party.

Other Items: Punishment for not reading the book is there will be no recap from now on!

Bring back the game – Which actors would play book characters.

We received book club pens from Julie, from all the way across the sea 


Discussion: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Joe’s pick) Tristana and Maren didn’t finish ……No Recap Ali: Enjoyed book. Liked the spider web life of the actor. 4/5 Jocelyn: Really liked for a post apocalyptic book. Liked the jumping from past to present. Loved that there was a tattoo artist even after all that befell mankind!! 3.5/5 Julie: Thought the author had beautiful details and loved the way it was written. Loved that Clark started the museum. 4/5 Meriah: Enjoyed book. Really liked the Symphony. Could have used some more prophet action. 3.5/5
Favorite Characters: Ali – Kristen and Miranda Meriah – Kirsten, Clark and Miranda Jocelyn – August the Archer Julie – Miranda and Clark Maren – Miranda Tristana – Miranda
Kevin Spacey would play Arthur
“It was the small people that made the world go around. We don’t realize till things stop”

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

July 19, 2015 Meeting Minutes

July 19, 2015 Book Club Notes
$$$ - Balance of $472. Paid: Jocelyn, Ali, Julie, Meriah, Tristana no pay for birthday. Maren owes.

Next book club is Aug. 30th – Hosted by Ali at Meriah’s new house. Pool Party!!!! This will be Meriah’s birthday club.

Book is A Thousand Splendid Sons by Khaled Hosseini 432 pgs.

Next book pick is Tristana, possibly Fight club by Chuck Palahniuk 224 pgs.

Next date proposed is Sept. 20th.

Book Pick Order – Ali, Tristana, Maren, Julie, Meriah, Jocelyn


Duties: Ali- Main, Tristana- Drinks, Maren- Salad, Julie- Side, Meriah- Dessert, Joe- Glasses /App

Dinner: Zucchini turkey/chorizo tacos, Cheese/dip platter, Beet salad, Homemade tomatillo salsa, Greek fro yo with mini peanut butter cups, sliced strawberries and whipped cream.

Announcements: Ali- House warming party on Aug.15th Jocelyn- Cy’s play running July 29-Aug 2nd Tickets at LPRT.org

Tristana- Birthday BBQ at her house Aug4th. Kitty was hit by a car, but lives on  Maren- Pool time baby shower is Aug 22nd at 2:00. Need to think of pool games. Julie- Had a great trip in Maui, got a new tattoo. Feeling really happy with new boyfriend Chris. Hosting a Damsel’s in Defense party on Set 13th, 4:00 at Bailey Property Management building in SV.
Meriah- Moving to Bonny Doon. Birthday is Sept 1st, maybe a pool party.

Other Items: Punishment for not reading the book is there will be no recap from now on!

Bring back the game – Which actors would play book characters.

We received book club pens from Julie, from all the way across the sea 


Discussion: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Joe’s pick) Tristana and Maren didn’t finish ……No Recap Ali: Enjoyed book. Liked the spider web life of the actor. 4/5 Jocelyn: Really liked for a post apocalyptic book. Liked the jumping from past to present. Loved that there was a tattoo artist even after all that befell mankind!! 3.5/5 Julie: Thought the author had beautiful details and loved the way it was written. Loved that Clark started the museum. 4/5 Meriah: Enjoyed book. Really liked the Symphony. Could have used some more prophet action. 3.5/5
Favorite Characters: Ali – Kristen and Miranda Meriah – Kirsten, Clark and Miranda Jocelyn – August the Archer Julie – Miranda and Clark Maren – Miranda Tristana – Miranda
Kevin Spacey would play Arthur
“It was the small people that made the world go around. We don’t realize till things stop”

Amazon First Reads this month has Tiger Chair- A short story written by Max Brooks (Devolution the bigfoot book we read)

Thought this was cool; This is Amazon's Free first read this month. This is the Author of Devolution which we liked about the Bigfoots. ...