Thursday, November 10, 2011

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!

Thursday, March 3, 2011

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

Monday, November 1, 2010

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

Friday, October 15, 2010

Choosing the 2011 Book List

    Jo's suggestions:

      Pat:
      • The Happiness ProjectOr, 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:

      Jackie:

      Cheryl:

      Nancy B:

      Nancy R:


      Linda:

      Debbie:

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



      2009 Black Butte

      Thursday, March 26, 2009

      Beach Retreat in Waldport






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

      Monday, March 23, 2009

      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

      Monday, March 16, 2009

      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.



      Saturday, March 14, 2009

      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