June Meeting at Lisa's

Hi everyone. Our June meeting will be held Wednesday night, June 6th, 6:30 pm (since she is up river and some of us have a longer drive to get there) at Lisa's home. Esther says she has our books available for pick-up. Lisa will have to let us all know how to get to her place up river. See you then!

Plans for 100th

We had an organizational meeting to make plans for our 100th celebration and here is what was decided:

The event will be held Saturday, May 5th, 2pm at the Fire Interpretive Center. We will arrive at noon to get things set up. Debbie will bring table cloths and will make up a book club brochure. Barbara will bring a cooler with ice. We will buy bottled water and non alcoholic beverages. Members are requested to bring a snack item - veggies, fruit, cookies, etc. Also bring paper plates, cups and napkins. Sorry, but I can't remember who volunteered to take care of the water, plates, cups and napkins. Maybe we will all bring what we have available. Please leave a comment to this post with additional info. We are expecting up to 30 people.

We will do introductions of everyone. Barbara will give a history of the book club. Book club members are requested to propose a question based on the book - these questions will be used to stimulate the conversation about the book.

We are also planning to do a poster-board presentation featuring covers/titles of all the 100 books we have read. The book list was divvied up among us as follows:
Barb - books 1-17
Debbie - books 18-33
Esther - books 34-50
Claudia - books 51-65
Gerry - books 66-80
Lisa - books 81-100
Some of these titles may be given to Chris - Esther will let Chris know what the plan is. Esther will make a title for the poster. Claudia will take the individual images and pin them to the bulletin/poster board. Since the meeting it was decided the the images should be approx 5" tall x 3" wide - NOTE - the bulletin board will be displayed in the "portrait" position instead of the "landscape" position. Also, Claudia will bring stickers/stamps such as star/heart. Each member can stamp a gold star/place a heart on their favorite books that we have read. Claudia will also make a sign for the bottom of the poster saying something like - go to www.WeReallyReadtheBook.blogspot.com for complete book list and rating.

Looking forward to a fun event! Please leave updates and comments to the above information.