Our New Read

Our new book is Eats, Shoots & Leaves The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss. :) Here is what it says on the back cover.

A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

It sounds like it should be hilarious and informative. Debby Mitchell chose the book so we will be meeting at her house on Tues. Feb. 15th at 7 p.m. to discuss it. Hope you all enjoy it.

(The panda background was for you Alecia) :)

Book Club Meeting

Tomorrow night we will be meeting @ my house to discuss The Host by Stephenie Meyer. If you need directions just call or email me. Hope to see you all here!

Liz's Teaser Tuesday

"The volcano?" Drizzt asked, and Bruenor kept nodding as if it was all coming clear to him.
"Aye, that's it. That's the beast."
"They told you that?"
"No," Bruenor readily admitted. "But that's it."
"You can't know that."
But Bruenor kept nodding. "Ye feel the earth moving beneath yer feet," he said. "Ye seen the mountain growin'. It's waking up. The beast. The beast o' Gauntlgrym." He looked Drizzt directly in the eye and nodded. "And they're askin' for me help, elf, and so they're to get it, or I'm a bearded gnome!"
He nodded with even more determination then rushed for his pack, fumbling with his maps. " And now we're knowing the general area o' the place! It's real, elf! Gauntlgrym is real!"
"So we're going to go there?" Drizzt asked, and Bruenor looked at him as if the answer was so obvious that Drizzt must have lost his mind to even ask.
"And stop a volcano?" Drizzt explained.
Bruenor's jaw hung open and he stopped fumbling with his maps.
After all, how did one stop a volcano?

Gauntlgrym: Neverwinter book I by R.A. Salvatore

Debby's Teaser Tuesday

T. Ray and I lived just outside Sylvan, South Carolina, population 3,100. Peach stands and Baptist churches, that sums it up.

At the entrance to the farm we had a big wooden sign with OWENS PEACH ENTERPRISES painted across it in the worst orange color you've ever seen. I hated that sign. But the sign was nothing compared with the giant peach perched atop a sixty-foot pole beside the gate. Everyone at school referred to it as the Great Fanny, and I'm cleaning up the language. Its fleshy color, not to mention the crease down the middle, gave it the unmistakable appearance oa a rear end. Rosaleen said it was T. Ray's way of mooning the entire world. That was T. Ray.

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd page 8

Liz's Teaser Tuesday

"You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in the pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer."

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Alecia's teaser

"Do you think you and your sister--smart and clever as you think you are with your Shanghai city ways--will know where to go tonight with that baby girl? Will you know where to go tomorrow? The blood of your father has ruined you both. This is why I can buy you for such a low price, but that doesn't mean I'm willing to lose my goods so easily."

May looks at me. I'm the older sister. I'm supposed to know what to do, but I'm completely confused by what we're seeing and experiencing. Not once has anyone asked why we didn't meet the Louies in Hong Kong, what we've been through, how we survived or how we got to America. We let the old man take our jewelry and it feels as if we've been caught in a fisherman's net.

"Shanghai Girls" by Lisa See

Debby's Tuesday Teaser

Sometimes circumstances in our lives keep trying to distract us from being happy and at peace in the moment. Sometimes it feels hypocritical to even think we could find happiness when there is so much sorrow surrounding us. If that's true for you right now, please believe me when I tell you that you can find the faith that says: I don't understand, and I don't know how long this is going to last - this situation may seem permanent, but how I experience this moment is not permanent, as long as my language of joy tells me the truth about what's going on. I can still be happy.

by Michael McLean, page 16

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