It was a good time ladies! Looking forward to next month! We ate Guinness and Cheddar Cheese Spread, Sea Salt Caramel Filled Brownie Cookies (better without the caramel just with some salt sprinkled on top), chai panna cotta with honey jelly, parmesan stuffed bacon wrapped dates, cheesy zucchini and red…
April 2012: The Sun Also Rises
Book: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway When: April 27, 2012 @ 7pm Where: Ellie’s House (See Pingg Invite) Synopsis: The Sun Also Rises first appeared in 1926, and yet it’s as fresh and clean and fine as it ever was, maybe finer. Hemingway’s famously plain declarative sentences linger in the…
March 2012: Deluxe
Book: Deluxe: How Luxury Lost It’s Luster by Dana Thomas When: March 30, 2012 @ 7pm Where: Beth’s House (See Pingg Invite) Synopsis: Newsweek reporter Thomas skillfully narrates European fashion houses’ evolution from exclusive ateliers to marketing juggernauts. Telling the story through characters like the French mogul Bernard Arnault, she details how the…
March 2012: Deluxe
Book: Deluxe – How Luxury Lost it’s Luster by Dana Thomas When: March 30, 2012 @ 7pm Where: Beth’s House (See Pingg Invite) Synopsis: Thomas has been the fashion writer for Newsweek in Paris for 12 years and writes about style for the New York Times Magazine and other well-known publications.…
‘Divergent’ Group Photo
We had some good food and good discussion on Friday night! Thanks for coming everyone! And for those of you who weren’t feeling well, we hope you feel better soon – you were missed! This article reviewed some basic information to keep in mind, as well as how you can…
Book Ratings
We just closed the survey on rating the books that we have read the past 4 years and I posted the results on our previous reads page. It’s quite interesting to see the spread of scores! So far the Hunger Games is the only one that every person has agreed…
Great Gatsby Movie
And another one of the books we read is being turned into a movie (once again)! Have you guys seen the promotional pictures for The Great Gatsby? It looks perfectly cast – love that Leonardo DiCaprio is Gatsby and Tobey Maguire is Nick. What do you guys think? Is this…
Hunger Games Movie Trailer
Have you guys checked out the trailer for the new Hunger Games movie? I’m sensing a book club movie date at the end of March!
2012 Current Schedule Update
Head on over to our current schedule page to check out the books we voted on through July! Please feel free to shout out any books you would like to see us read for the second half of 2012. We are always looking for suggestions!
February 2012: Divergent
Book: Divergent by Veronica Roth When: February 24, 2012 @ 7pm Where: Jill’s House (See Pingg Invite) Synopsis: In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the…