April/May Meeting Minutes (5/22/2011)

Location: Tristana's Garden City
DUES: Everyone Paid up. Tristana paid for next meeting (June).

Short Stories were AWESOME!!!! You think we should do for every meeting??? Let me know what you think?

Short Stories Read:
Tristana- The Eagle and the Arrow, The Fir-Tree and the Bramble, The Fox and the Crow
Maren- Shmily SEE-HOW-MUCH-I-LOVE-YOU
Meriah- Warning- Red Hat society
Julie- Yours was on your phone so I dont have the title
Ali- Henry Rollins "One from None"

Team Shirts (Tristana): Need to pick Names & Numbers
-Some ideas are page numbers of a favorite passage or quote

SIMPLE PLAN by Scott Smith
-Watched A Simple Plan Movie

JUNE MEETING: JULY 3rd (Please tell me if we need to change this date)
Maren's Book: Under the Banner of Heaven
Location: Moutain Cabin
Main: Maren
Side: Julie
Bev: Ali
Salad:Meriah
Dessert: Tristana
****New RULE Dessert Ladies!!!!! Last Host brings Dessert

BOOK PICK ORDER: Maren, Julie, Meriah, Ali, Tristana
Julie: YOU SUCK by Chistopher Moore
Meriah: _______________________Pick A book Meriah
Ali: Gone with a Handsomer Man by Michael Lee West or Embassytown by China Mieville


RESPOND:
Short Stories/Poems every meeting?
Meriah Book?

APRIL & MAY Meeting Agenda: 5/22 @ Tristana's Garden City

(APRIL & MAY) Agenda:

DUES: (please llook to see if and what you owe): We have $56 total to date

Tristana owes dues: Owes $15 ($5march, $5April, $5May)

Maren owes dues:  Owes $15 ($5march, $5April, $5May)

Meriah owes dues: Owes $10 ($5April, $5May)

Ali owes dues:       Owes $10 ($5April, $5May)

Julie ALL PAID UP til next meeting

Meeting Date:             05/22/11

April Agenda: We will all have our personally chosen Short Story or Poem.
    -We will eat salad and read our stories and poems;
    -We will each discuss why we chose our story/poem, what it meant to us, what we learned, etc...

+Discuss Tristana's Team shirt Idea: Pick Names & Numbers......

May Agenda:
We will breifly discuss the book and what we thought, if we liked, why we liked/disliked, etc..
Book:

A Simple Plan by Scott....

 Time:                                                    4:00pm

Location:                                               Tristana's Garden City
Main:                                                    Tristana (Roast Pork Loin)

Side:                                                   Julie

Beverages:                                            Ali (Im making jalapenos too)
Salad:                                                  Maren

WATCH the movie A SIMPLE PLAN

Next Meeting: JUNE MEETING on July 3rd, 2011

Maren's Book: __________________________________

 Time:                                                    4:00pm

Location:                            Maren's Mountain Cabin
Main:                                                    Maren

Side:                                                    Ali

Beverages:                                            Meriah
Salad:                                                  Julie

_______________________________________________________

Club Gear:

1. Team Jerseys
2. Sweat Pants next; Need a Small Sweatshirt for Maren

Next Book Pick:  The ORDER->Ali, Tristana, Maren, Julie, Meriah 

Maren  PICK BOOK For June

Julie PICK BOOK For July
Meriah (?????????)  August Meeting
Ali Gone with a Handsomer Man by Michael Lee West OR Embassytown by China Mieville*
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NEW CLUB RULES:

Pay double dues for missing club. This applies to last minute plans 

NO NEGATIVE comments about the book on the blog until after club meeting. These discourage others from wanting to finish. 

Assignment for May 22nd Meeting

Ok ladies,
Since we will never catch up in meetings we will be doing a Two for One on May 22nd. The meeting is at Tristana's house on Sunday May 22nd at 4pm.

Your new assignment (you can put down a Simple Plan if you like since it's not due until may 22nd) is:
Pick a Poem that you will read to the group, have your analysis of the poem ready, then each person will give their take. You may also pick a short story or prose; it must be short enough to read out loud to the group.

This assignment will be our April Meeting make up.

Then we will commence A Simple Plan discussion.

Good luck all, I am interested to see what we all pick for our poems/short story.

Stephanie Plum novels

I just finished One For The Money and it was great! I'm so excited to start the next. Maren- Did you know there are a total of 8 books? Wow! I'm hooked! I love this character and the story line is great. Any one want the first book?

What to Read?

Okay so I'm the next person to choose a book and I'm torn between Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer, and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. Both stories are non-fiction. Under the Banner of Heaven is about a double murder two fundamentalist Mormon brothers committed in the name of God. Blink is about how within the first 2 seconds of meeting someone or walking into a strange house our mind has already made a decision, and it's this decision that protects us from danger. I downloaded the first chapter from both books and both sounded really good, what do you guys think?

when is our April Meeting?? Please comment

Ok we left off nixing April dates as it is either inconvenient or on easter or a bday. Can we meet sunday May 15th??? Or if someone can pick a Monday I believe Julie is off and maren is off those days. Let me know.

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