Tuesday October 23rd, 6:30pm, $25.00, Adante Restaurant, 113 Emberson St, Chelan, WA 98816
Join Kaya McLaren for a book signing dinner event - "How I Came to Sparkle"
Check with Debbie if you are looking for more information.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Indian Summer
It was wonderful to see everyone at Chris's home last Wednseday. We all relaxed while we got caught up with each other and also reviewed our last two books. Finger foods with a basic "Alsakan" theme (crab and smoked salmon) prevailed and couldn't have made for a better evening. Chris and Nancy had gone huckleberry picking the weekend before our gathering, so we enjoyed fresh-picked wild berries along with the yummy cucumbers fresh from the garden. Dark chocolate Eskimo Pies topped it all off and Barbara treated us with her homemade peach sorbet. Bravo Chris, Nancy and Barbara!
Mark your calendars for two Events in October. Our next book review will be held on Wednesday, Oct 10th, 6pm at Esther's home. We are hopefule that Adrienne will be able to join us again at Esther's! Also, there is an author event being held in Chelan on Oct 23rd, featuring Kaya McLaren. Debbie has details and told us this will include a dinner.
If you are interested and available, Claudia will be giving a presentation on textile design for the quilt industry at the Wenatchee Quilter's Guild meeting September 26th, 7pm at the Masonic Temple on Chelan Street.
Enjoy the rest of your summer and we will all get together in October!
Mark your calendars for two Events in October. Our next book review will be held on Wednesday, Oct 10th, 6pm at Esther's home. We are hopefule that Adrienne will be able to join us again at Esther's! Also, there is an author event being held in Chelan on Oct 23rd, featuring Kaya McLaren. Debbie has details and told us this will include a dinner.
If you are interested and available, Claudia will be giving a presentation on textile design for the quilt industry at the Wenatchee Quilter's Guild meeting September 26th, 7pm at the Masonic Temple on Chelan Street.
Enjoy the rest of your summer and we will all get together in October!
Monday, July 16, 2012
Books Available!
Hi Ladies!
I have the next choice for you ready to check out at the library. Chris's pick is The Map of My Dead Pilots, by Colleen Mondor. Here is a link to the Amazon page about the book.
Map of My Dead Pilots
I miss all of you and am hoping that Barbara is feeling better! I hope we can meet soon to catch up. Any ideas?
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Thursday, June 14, 2012
A Lovely Evening Up River
We had a delightful evening hosted by Lisa, tucked away in the forest 22 miles up river. Wonderful meal (including country ham and fresh Angel biscuits), great conversation and an interesting discussion about our interesting book - "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky.
This is a thouroughly researched work that everyone was glad to have read. Each one of us learned new things about the world's history of which we were previously unaware. However, we did not come up with a rating for this book. Maybe we were too relaxed to give it much thought! I'm not sure, but I was also not sure what rating I would have given it. I felt it was a very worthy read, but this subject didn't lend itself to character and story development as so many other books do. Everyone struggled a bit with trying to picture the timeline of events as the author chose to break chapters down by culture instead of keeping events in historic order. We all found that, once we disregarded the exact date and only focused on the general aspect of the date (what century things occurred), the book flowed better and one was able to pay attention to the interesting tid-bits of knowledge and the recipes.
Lisa announced that she will not be able to continue with our book club on a regular basis which was a disappointment to us all. She did say that she may be able to join us from time to time on future reads, but found that she currently has too many things that need her attention. We will miss Lisa as one of our regulars and hope that she is able to participate with one of our selections soon.
This is a thouroughly researched work that everyone was glad to have read. Each one of us learned new things about the world's history of which we were previously unaware. However, we did not come up with a rating for this book. Maybe we were too relaxed to give it much thought! I'm not sure, but I was also not sure what rating I would have given it. I felt it was a very worthy read, but this subject didn't lend itself to character and story development as so many other books do. Everyone struggled a bit with trying to picture the timeline of events as the author chose to break chapters down by culture instead of keeping events in historic order. We all found that, once we disregarded the exact date and only focused on the general aspect of the date (what century things occurred), the book flowed better and one was able to pay attention to the interesting tid-bits of knowledge and the recipes.
Lisa announced that she will not be able to continue with our book club on a regular basis which was a disappointment to us all. She did say that she may be able to join us from time to time on future reads, but found that she currently has too many things that need her attention. We will miss Lisa as one of our regulars and hope that she is able to participate with one of our selections soon.
Monday, May 7, 2012
"100th Book" Party
Hi Everyone,
We had a lovely - but breezy - time as we discussed our community read book "Unbroken". It was nice to have others join us for an always insightful discussion of the book, it's impact on us and what we have gained from reading this. Providing food for a larger group based on a book that was about starvation was a bit of a challenge as we didn't want to serve just rice and water. Hat's off to Lisa for her lovely tray of seaweed and goldfish crackers! Also enjoyable was making the poster featuring pictures of all the 100 books that have been read. It was great to remember which ones we really liked and which ones we didn't enjoy as much. Sharing this with our guests and finding out which books on our poster they have also read and enjoyed made for interesting discussion. It also reminded us of two books which were inadvertently left off our reading list! So, we found we've got a jump start on our second hundred books to read! It was great seeing everyone and learning and sharing. A lovely afternoon with special friends!
We had a lovely - but breezy - time as we discussed our community read book "Unbroken". It was nice to have others join us for an always insightful discussion of the book, it's impact on us and what we have gained from reading this. Providing food for a larger group based on a book that was about starvation was a bit of a challenge as we didn't want to serve just rice and water. Hat's off to Lisa for her lovely tray of seaweed and goldfish crackers! Also enjoyable was making the poster featuring pictures of all the 100 books that have been read. It was great to remember which ones we really liked and which ones we didn't enjoy as much. Sharing this with our guests and finding out which books on our poster they have also read and enjoyed made for interesting discussion. It also reminded us of two books which were inadvertently left off our reading list! So, we found we've got a jump start on our second hundred books to read! It was great seeing everyone and learning and sharing. A lovely afternoon with special friends!
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