Monday, December 28, 2015

SCMBOOKCLUB AGENDA- December (01-03-16) 4:30pm


Menu: Meriah- Main/Julie- Glassses & Apps/Ali-Side/ Joe-Salad/TRistana- Dessert/ Maren- Drinks
NOTE: Jocelyn has glasses
I.Call to order by Ali Scontrino
II. Treasurer's Report by Meriah Haro [DUES NOW $10.00]-
*Current Balance: $119.00
**Maren & Tristana owe double dues for Nov
III. Next Meeting: *******01/03/2016
* Book pick- (Jocelyn) _______________________
* Book pick- (Ali) _______________________
* Menu Assignment [Ali/Jocelyn]-
* Meeting Date: January 3rd, 2016 (SUNDAY)
*People who Have used their pass: Clean Slate Let’s all try to not pass on any book this year-Meriah, Tristana & Maren
IV. Old Business:
*2016 The year of the “HAT” (Tristana to weed out any over 400 page books)- Status?
*New Page limit 400-50 pages
*Get New Bookclub Stickers Made (Ali & Meriah to price)- New logo w/ 6 Books labeled with our names?
*New apparel- Meriah & Ali to get pricing- out of pocket expense for each member
V. New Business:
*Anniversary Club should be a separate meeting from Book Talk meeting
VI. Discussion of Julie’s Book: The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton (481pgs)
NOTE: Book Order- Ali, Tristana, Maren, Julie, Meriah, Jocelyn

November 29, 2015 Book Club Notes


$$$ - Balance of $119. Paid : Meriah and Ali. Jocelyn and Julie’s Birthday club….Free Tristana and Maren owe double dues. We missed you!!!
Next book club is Jan 3rd at Meriah’s house Book is The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton 481pgs. (approved by club) Next book pick is Jocelyn…….. Book Pick Order: Jocelyn, Ali, Tristana, Maren, Julie, Meriah
Duties: Meriah-main, Julie- glasses/apps, Ali- side, Joe- salad, Tristana- dessert, Maren- drinks Dinner: Chicken tostadas, green salad, homemade ice cream sandwiches…yum!!, Irish Rose and beers.
Announcements: No personal news to share.
Other Items: Ali handed the hat to Meriah to pass to Tristana. Still going to look up pricing for goods. From now on we want to separate club from anniversary night. Two meetings that month.
Discussion: Scorching Wind By Walter Maken (Julie’s pick) Only Jocelyn and Ali finished (not sure about Tristana?)
Ali- The book kept being bad! Hated it so much I felt like I would never care to read again. Author was jumpy. Lots of typos. 0/5 Jocelyn- SO boring! And confusing. Author kept jumping between 1st and 3rd person, so annoying. The writing style was horrible. 1/5 Julie – Felt let down. Wanted to learn more about Irish history. Elementary grammer. Just couldn’t finish. 1/5 Meriah- Couldn’t keep my eyes open. No character development. Could have been great, but no action. 1/5
Favorite Characters: Ali- Poric Jocelyn- The women of the time Julie- Joe 2 and Matt the sailor Meriah- Poric

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. ...