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.