Friday, September 24, 2010

Mrs. Mike

This month Cecilia picked our new book; we will be reading Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman. Here is a brief description of what the book is about:

Mrs. Mike...is the story of the start of young love, its growth to maturity, and its acceptance of a dangerous, hard, but enthralling life. A moving love story set in the Canadian wilderness, Mrs. Mike is a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of the Great North to life-and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful young Katherine Mary O'Fallon.

So check your local library, borrow it from a friend who has it, or, if you're wanting to build up a library collection of your own, purchase it. Have fun reading!

Monday, September 20, 2010

Book Club Tuesday

Book Club thisTuesday,Sept 21st,  is at Trudy Bainter's at 7:00 pm. 

Directions:


Go up 235 north (three notch rd) to Mechanicsville Rd, turn left go about 1 1/2 miles to Cox Dr turn right, pass one street and turn right on Carrie Court and it is the first house on the right.



Leonardtown Directions:

Go to route 5 (Lookout Rd) turn left on Budd's Creek rd, then go around the turn about and keep on Budd's Creek and make a right on Mechanicsville Rd and then a left on Cox Dr, and a right on Carrie Court, first house on the right.

Hope to see you all there.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Debby's Tuesday Teaser

"Ignore them and they'll stop bothering you, " my mom and the counselor said. So that's what I tried to do. Everytime Dara, Kat, or any of their friends abused me, instead of fighting back and sticking up for my rights, I responded with a verbal comeback, or I acted as if they weren't there. The more I showed how "mature" I could be, the more determined they were to get my goat. What had started out as a simple payback for being a tattle tale had mutated into something far more serious.

Please Stop Laughing At Me . . .One Woman's Inspirational Story by Jodee Blanco page 65

Liz's Teaser Tuesday

But forgiveness...I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

A Great And Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray pg. 402

Cecilia's Teaser

It was possible in the camp, as men died, to come into possession of objects of some value--shirt, shorts, knives, and occasionally, watches.  The Thais would pay gladly for them in their paper money known as "bahts."  A baht was worth about twenty-one cents.  Or they would barter for the goods, offering medicines or duck eggs.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Reminder

Tomorrow is the first Tuesday of the month and we all know what that means...Teaser Tuesday!!!! So grab a book you've read or are reading (excluding our book of the month) and find a couple of sentences, or short paragraph, and share it with us.