2012 Book List

January 12  • The Paris Wife • Dinner at Karen's with Barb assisting

February 9 • Movie (Jackie)

March 16-18 • A Farewell to Arms • Retreat at the beach

April 12 • Movie (Jo)
May 10 • Moloka'i or Honolulu • Dinner at Peg’s house with Robin assisting

June 14 • Movie (Elene)

July 12 • Major Pettigrew's Last Stand • Dinner at Marj's with Lia assisting

August 9 • Movie (Jerry)

September 13 • State of Wonder • Dinner at Nancy Rogge's with Nancy B assisting

October 12-14 • Devil in the White City • Retreat at Black Butte

November 8 • Movie (Linda)

December 13 • PARTY at Pat and Buzz's home • Dinner at Pat's with Cheryl assisting

• Debbie joins us for retreats and Christmas party - hooray!
• Jan is so busy taking care of our community that she just gets to come when she can!
  

2011 Book List

January 13 • Esperanza's Box of Saints (Jo)

February 10 • Movie

March 10 • South of Broad (Debbie)

April 15-17 • Waldport Retreat; The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis

May 12 • Movie (Lia)

June 9 • Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (Robin)

July 14 • Movie (Marj)

August 11 • Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Cheryl)

September 8 • Movie (Linda & Nancy)

October 14-16 • Black Butte Retreat; The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett  

November 10 • Movie (Jackie)

December 8 • Christmas Party at Pat's; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hurston

Bonus Reads

• The Outlander, by Gil Adamson
•  Drop City by T.C. Boyle
• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan 
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet by Jamie Ford

I think I got it

okay, I think I got it now

Pick a Date!

Sign up to host or organize our 2nd Thursdays of 2011;

1. January 13 • Esperanza's Box of Saints already assigned
2. February 10 • Movie
3. March 10 • Book or Retreat March 11-13?
4. April 14 • Movie or Retreat April 15-17?
5. May 12 • 
6. June 9 • 
7. July 14 • 
8. August 11 • Cheryl
9. September 8 • 
10. October 14-16 • Fall retreat?
11. November 10 • 
12. December 8 • Christmas Party at Pat's

Choosing the 2011 Book List

Jo's suggestions:

• I'm Perfect, You're Doomed, by Kyria Abrahamson 
• Day After Night, by Anita Diamant (author of The Red Tent)
  
• The Pearl Diver, by Jeff Talarigo
• Push, by Sapphire
• The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis
  
• The Poet of Baghdad, by Jo Tatchell
  

Pat:

• The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin

Robin:

• Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett (has a movie; was an Oprah pick)
• World without End, by Ken Follett
• Joy in the Morning, by Betty Smith (author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
• The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
• O Pioneers! or My Antonía by Willa Cather (CLASSIC)
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay  
• Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey (CLASSIC)

Jackie:

• House Rules by Jodi Picoult

Cheryl:

• The God of Small Things by Arundahti Roy   
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexei (short stories)
• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan 

Nancy B:

• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake (still in hardcover)
• A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz 
• The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett  
• A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

Nancy R:

• Room by Emma Donohue (still in hardcover)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (still in hardcover) 
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Linda:

• The Outlander, by Gil Adamson
• Drop City by T.C. Boyle

Debbie:

• South of Broad by Pat Conroy
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Other suggestions that hadn't been read by anyone yet:

• Moral Ground by Kathleen Dean Moore (Pat)
• Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature by Kathleen Dean Moore (Pat)
• Too Close to the Falls, A Memoir by Catherine Gildiner (Janet)
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet by Jamie Ford (Elene)

2009 Black Butte

Beach Retreat in Waldport

The 'Thimble Game', aka Zonk. Jo has captured the very essence of the game!

more photos

Well this is enough for now. I'll see if I can put another slideshow together and post it here.

And if any of you get a chance, be sure to send an email to sockmonkey2009@gmail.com

just to say hello. I think he would appreciate it!

hugs,

jo
I'll see if i can just post them in a row here.

Its been a week, and I miss the beach!

And all that wonderful food and drink. Oh and the friends at the house are the best - bar non!
So in that spirit I thought I would post some photos for you to enjoy. please comment when you have time!

This one seems to really sum up the whole weekend doesn't it?

Jo

Despite rainy weather the weekend was GREAT!

March 16th.
I'm here, messing around with updating this blog. What a great weekend everyone! It would have been wonderful if all the bookies could have been there, but still, we managed to eat, drink, laugh, sleep, walk on the beach, drink some more and just in general enjoy ourselves! I don't know when I've known such a group of women who all get along and enjoy each other so much! And a couple of us even read the book. If you didn't, I'll post a link to the talk on the web given by the author of the book My Stroke of Insight. Personally, I wasn't wild about the book, but I did like her talk.
I will post some photos later today, but in the mean time here are some little videos of the final 5 of us enjoying the cold rainy weather before leaving for the valley.

Bookies 2009 Schedule

Well, here we are another year wiser, older and more well read! Each month we alternate between meeting for dinner and libations and watching a movie, OR discussing the selected book. Following is the list of dates and books:

March 13-15 - Bookies retreat at the Oregon Coast "Gathering Place". Book - My Stroke of Insight by Dr. Jill Bolt Taylor.

April 9th: The Zookeepers Wife by Diane Ackerman, hosted at Debbie's house.

May 14th: movie night with Peg

June 11th: The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett, hosted at Robin's house

July 9th: movie night - with Jo

August 13th: book-TBA

September 10th: movie with Lia

October 9-11: Bookies retreat at Black Butte, A Tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

November 12th: movie night with Marj

December 10: Bookies Christmas party at Pats