January Book Club

Book Club will be January 21st at 8:00 pm at Sue's house. The books we are reading are...

The Help by: Kathryn Stockett

The other book is a book of your choice. We thought it would be nice to have a catch up month incase there was a book you didn't get to from our past meetings.

December Book Club

Book Club in December will be Thursday the 17th at Tara's House. The books we will be reading are....

The Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society

by: Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows

and...

The Warrior Heir

by: Cinda Williams Chima

November Book Club

Thanks for another awesome book club girls. It was really fun to have Sue and Natalie join us again!

The books for November Book Club are...

A Thousand Splendid Suns, by: Khaled Hosseini

and

City of Bones, by: Cassandra Clare

Next month's book club will be November 19th at Tara's House. Can't wait to see you there!

October book club

Book Club will be October 15th at Stephanie's house. The books we will be reading are..........

Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke

and

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

I just had to throw the movie cover in too because after you read the book, you have to watch the movie....SO GOOD!!!

September Book Club

Book Club will be Thursday, September 17th at Susanna's house.

The books we are reading are....

and.....

We will also be having a girls night out on Tuesday August 25th to celebrate Bryn's and Natalie's birthday. We're going to do dinner and a movie. We will meet at The Olive Garden at 5:30, and then we will go see Julie and Julia at 7:05. Hope to see you all there!

August Book Club

BookClub will be Thursday August 20th at Natalie Bates house.

The books we are reading for this month are

Fablehaven, by Brandon Mull

Austen Land, by Shannon Hale

Can't wait to see you there!

Ashley Mae Photography

If anyone is needing family pictures, go to

http://ashleymaephoto.com/blog/

She is giving away a free photo session. Her pictures are amazing!

Harry Potter Ticket Details?

Hey! Just couldn't remember which day we had talked about going to the new Harry Potter movie? And do we need to order a bunch of tickets online early or do you think we'd be okay to get them there? If anybody else remembers, maybe let me know? Thanks a bunch!

June Book Club

Book Club will be Wednesday June 17th at
Bryn's house.

Here is a list of all the books we have read, since June is a catch-up month. Happy reading!!
This is a big List.



Chronicles of Narnia - Mrs. Mike
Cold Sassy Tree - The 5 People You Meet in Heaven
Lady in White - The Killer Angels
Ender’s Game - Circle of Friends
Little Prince - Wild Swans
Picture of Dorian Gray - The Giver
Cry of the Beloved Country - The Hobbit
The Hiding Place - #1 Ladies Detective Agency
Angels & Demons - Simplify
Scarlet Pimpernel - Crocodiles on the Sandbank
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Left to Tell
Those Who Love - Twilight
Red Scarf Girl - The Good Earth
I Capture the Castle - The Golden Compass
Inheritance - Water for Elephants
Bridge to Terabithia - The Book Thief
Train to Potevka - A Town Like Alice
Abram’s Daughter #1 - Night
Princess Academy - The Peace Giver
Tisha - Secret Life of Bees
Goose Girl - Silent Night
Witch of Black Bird Pond - Persuasion
Prelude to Glory - Beauty
These is My Words
Follow the River - Indiscretion
Scaramouch - Prelude to Glory
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town - Path of the Trident
The Screw Tape Letters - City of Ember
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter - Life of Pi
Night of Rain & Stars - The Lightning Thief
The Alchemist - On the Wings of Heroes
Across Five Aprils - Stargirl
Citizen Washington - Wives and Daughters
Westing Game - The Ladies Auxiliary
The Host - The Mascot
Joy Luck Club - Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Eragon - The Nazi Officer’s Wife
Jane Eyre - 3 Cups of Tea
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Midwife’s Apprentice
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The Wednesday Letters

May Books

Book Club was super fun last night. I love chatting the night away with you gals...you all totally inspire me!

The books for next month are....

Uncle Tom's Cabin by: Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Mascot by: Mark Kurzem
We'll be meeting at Rebecca's next month. May 21st at 8:00pm. Good Luck with your reading!

Friendship Bread Recipe

The one ingredient that you may not have on hand is the large box of instant vanilla pudding. So sometime in the next 10 days, buy one.
Do not use metal mixing utensils or a metal bowl to make this. However when ready to put in the oven, a metal loaf pan is ok. Who knows why.

Day 1: This is the day you receive the starter. Accept it graciously while thinking, what the heck is this?
Day 2: Mush the bag. Let air out if necessary.
Day 3: Squish the bag.
Day 4: Let your toddler mush the bag.

Day 5: Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Oh and guess what? Mush the bag.

Day 6: If you forgot to add that stuff yesterday, do it today. And mush the bag.
Day 7: Squeeze the bag repeatedly.
Day 8: Remember that you only have two days to figure out who to give the starters to. Panic. Beat the bag to vent your aggressions.
Day 9: Mash the bag. Make a list of all your friends within driving distance. Call two of them to ask if they’d like friendship bread. Sense their hesitation. Decide not to call anyone else and just drop in bearing ‘gifts.’ Go get gallon zipper bags if you’re running low and photocopy the instructions.

Day 10: Pour the contents of the bag into a bowl (remember non metal) adding 1.5 c flour, 1.5 c sugar and 1.5 c milk. Mix (though, if you’re on a roll, you could certainly try pouring all these into the bag and . . . you know, mushing it). Measure out 4 separate batters of 1 cup each into 4 gallon zipper bags. Write the date on the bags. Look at your list of friends again. Pick the three or four you can afford to lose if necessary. Give them the bags later. Heck, you could even ease their ‘burden’ by giving them the bags on day four. Or five. Or nine. Don’t forget to include the instructions.

With the remaining batter in the bowl, make bread. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Add
3 eggs
1 c oil (or 0.5 c oil and 0.5 c applesauce)
0.5 c milk
1 c sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
0.5 tsp vanilla
1.5 tsp baking powder
0.5 tsp baking soda
1.75 to 2 c flour
1 large box instant pudding mix (any flavor. Very Amish, yes?)

Grease 2 large loaf pans and divide mixture. Bake 55-60 minutes. Sprinkle cinnamon/sugar over the top before or after baking.

If you keep a starter bag for yourself, you must be a glutton for punishment. Or you need the stress relief of four seconds of squishing a somewhat viscous liquid. Maybe you should get a bag of honey instead. But, hey, you could have fresh Amish bread every 10 days. And continue forcing the starters on your friends. Until you run out of friends.

Only the Amish know how to create a starter bag, but apparently they got on Allrecipes. If you give away all your starters, you’ll have to wait until someone gives you one back. But I’m sure your friends would be eager to return the favor if you’d like one.

Sit down with your loaves of Amish bread and eat them both in a single sitting. It can’t be fattening if it’s Amish, right?

April Books

The books we chose for this month are...

Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Ladies Auxiliary, by Tova Mirvis

We'll meet again on April 16th at Stephanie Hancock's house. Can't wait to see you all again!

March Change

It's been decided- we will have book club on the 26th on March. That works best for most everyone- and then maybe Stephanie can bring her new little guy. Hope you see you there!

8:00pm at Tara Schwab's House.

Can we Change the Day?

Hi guys, I've just had something come up on the 19th of next month- would it be possible to change the book club to either the week before (the 12th) or the week after (the 26th)?

I understand if it doesn't work- I just thought I check and see.

Susanna

March Book Club

Our books for this next month are

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

The Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck

Book Club will be on March 19th at Tara's house. Look forward to seeing you there.

Stephanie- we missed you and hope all goes well with the baby!

Hard Core Book Club

Thanks Susanna for setting all this up! Hopefully we can catch up with the few that haven't been able to come lately--you've been missed! I think the books for this month must be good--there's a long wait even down in Davis County for both of them--that's usually an annoyingly good sign! I did find Hubener vs. Hitler, Natalie were you the one who told me about that one? It's pretty technical, I wondered if you got through it okay.

Februrary Book List

Hello everyone, I finally got around to making the blog for the book club. Feel free to post interesting insights or facts about the books. This is also a great way to let people know how you feel about the book or to warn us if there is something a little shady.

This months books are
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 1) by Rick Riordan.

Book Club for February will be at Susanna's on Thursday Feb 19th at 8:00 pm.