Our next book- The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth -and does anyone know when our next meeting is?

OUR NEXT MEETING

Thorn Birds Book available

I finished reading the Thorn Birds. It was a good one. If anyone wants it feel free. I think it's due back to the library June 21.

Book Club Meeting this Month!

Hey everyone!

Just a reminder that our book club meeting this month is May 20th at my house: 746 N Aspen Lakes Way (in the Rockbridge Subdivision). I'm thinking we'll have it at 8pm unless I hear from you all that you'd like it to be at a different time.

Here are some remarks regarding the book that I found and thought I'd share:

"Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding that to read it is to share fully in the gravity of the characters' situations. It both touches your heart deeply and inspires a renewed faith in the dignity of mankind. Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic tale, passionately African, timeless and universal, and beyond all, selfless."

"Cry, the Beloved Country is set in this tense and fragile society, where the breathtaking beauty of the nation’s natural landscape is tainted by the fears of its people. And yet, the message of the novel is one of hope. Characters such as Stephen Kumalo, James Jarvis, and Theophilus Msimangu reveal a potential for goodness in humankind, and are able to defuse hatred, overcome fear, and take the first steps necessary for mending a broken nation."

"Cry the Beloved Country" is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, "Cry, the Beloved Country" is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man."



I hope you're all reading the book, but if you aren't, here's an option...

Not to tempt you away from the book (because I really hope you all will read it) but if you know for sure that you just can't/won't get the book read for the 20th, I own the movie on dvd I could lend out. That way you can still know the plot and participate in the discussion. It's a moving rendition of the book and has James Earl Jones as Kumalo. Let me know if you need to borrow it before we meet.

Thanks,
Stacie

BOOK CLUB TOMORROW NIGHT * ARYN'S HOUSE!!!!!

i'm so sorry. i've totally slacked on my emailing duties.

book club is thursday night april 15th * sampson residence 8:30p.m

discussing "ALCHEMIST"... and other important matters.

address:

4488 north station ave * meridian

from star:

go south on star rd. (heading toward chinden)

turn left on chinden

right on ten mile (not very visible, little green sign)

go through the mcmillian intersection and then take 2nd left into the BRIDGE TOWER subdivision

turn left after waterfall (Desert Breeze)

right on Piazza

rode will curve left on STATION AVE.

right hand side in the cul-de-sac.

can't wait to see all of your lovely faces!!!

Book Ideas for Future Months...

Per a conglomeration of brainstorming at last months book club:

The Lost Symbol

The Shack

Les Miserables

The Great Divorce

Zookeepers Wife

I Am Mother

Galileos Daughter

Fahrenheit 451

Water for Elephants

#1 Ladies Detective Agency

I believe at Brittany's house we decided that after Cry The Beloved Country, we were going to read Thorn Birds, then Mere Christianity [if Kim still wants that one], Eat, Pray, Love [if Jill still wants that one] and I'm going to choose Pope Joan.

So... the order for right now should be... approximately:

March - The Alchemist

April - Cry, the Beloved Country

May - Thorn Birds

June - Mere Christianity

July - Eat, Pray, Love

August - Pope Joan

September - The Good Earth?

Everyone! Does this sound right???? Please Add Add Add! Or make whatever changes you need to!!! Jessica, we haven't really had a pick from your direction in a while!!

Book of the Month

"Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an Alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a meditation on the treasures found within. Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is art eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts."

next month:

Book Suggestions

Really cute one for kids...and adults~

"Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children-two boys and two girls-succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete. To accomplish it they will have to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules. But what they'll find in the hidden underground tunnels of the school is more than your average school supplies. So, if you're gifted, creative, or happen to know Morse Code, they could probably use your help."

"Wang Lung, rising from humble Chinese farmer to wealthy landowner, gloried in the soil he worked. He held it above his family, even above his gods. But soon, between Wang Lung and the kindly soil that sustained him, came flood and drought, pestilence and revolution....

Through this one Chinese peasant and his children, Nobel Prize-winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life, its terrors, its passion, its persistent ambitions and its rewards. Her brilliant novel—beloved by millions of readers throughout the world—is a universal tale of the destiny of men."