November Book Club Meeting

Hello Ladies! We sure had a FABULOUS time at book Club. Thanks to SharRee for a great night! We discussed the book, snacked on yummy food and even showed off our dance moves!!!

We'll be reading One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus and will meet early in January 2014!

October Book Club Meeting

Robyn hosted this months meeting and we meet at The Chelsea for some scrumptious food! We discussed her book pick and are looking forward to the nest one in the series!

SharRee is hosting Novembers book and she's picked Molokai'i by Alan Brennert.

Moloka'i is the story of Rachel Kalama, growing up in Honolulu in the 1890's, who at the age of 7 is taken from her family and sent to Kalaupapa, the isolated leprosy settlement on the island of Moloka'i.

Happy Reading!!!

Septembers Book Club Meeting

Angela hosted this months BC meeting. She chose The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton.

It was such a fantastic book and we all agreed that it would make a wonderful movie!!! We met at the Bay Leaf Restaurant in Downtown New Bern. Its a new place, its Indian food and it was soooo DELICIOUS!!! I don't think anyone left hungry :)

Next month Robyn will be hosting and she has picked Born of Persuasion by Jessica Dotta!

Jenni's Tea Party

We got to have a meeting that included facials and massages! Jenni put together the cutest "Tea Party" themed meeting. Even though we were a much smaller group and missed the rest of the BC Ladies, it was still a nice relaxing meeting with yummy food and great conversation.

August's Book Club Meeting; The Light Between Oceans

Hey Girls! I hope you all enjoy my book club pick for August.  It has received four of five stars and over 46,000 ratings.  I have not personally read the book before, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity after reading the synopsis online; "The Light Between Oceans is exquisite and unforgettable, a deeply moving novel".  I haven't set a date / time / and place for the upcoming book club meeting, but plans are underway!  I will keep you all posted :)

July book club meeting

Carla hosted July's meeting. She chose Icons by Margaret Stohl. We met at Captain Rattys for dinner and started on the roof before the rain came! Then went inside to eat our yummy dinner and chat about the book!

Junes Book Club Meeting -- Legend

I really enjoyed this book!! Thanks to Carla for telling me about it. I hope all of you enjoyed it as well.

We started out with a relaxing picnic by the water at Union Point Park. We had a pretty good turn out although we still missed those that couldn't come.

After our dinner we headed to the Strike Zone for a lil "friendly" game of laser tag! Brittany thought for sure that she had us with her A Team of women, but whoa what's that, the Underdogs WON!! Thats right, Carrie, Angela and Robyn (our newest member--wahoo!!!) totally rocked it!

Thanks to everyone that took the time to come out and talk about the book as well as have some fun!

Next months book is ~ 

Carla Miller is Hosting in July! More info on a date to come.

June Book Club Meeting Date

Wasn't Legend soooo good!!! Ok back to business :)

Thursday June 13th, 6:30-8:30, will be our next Book Club Meeting, hosted by Carrie. Invitations to come!

May Book Club Meeting - To Kill a Mockingbird

Melissa Trenum hosted Mays book club meeting at Arturo's! The company was great, food fantastic, and the book was enlightening.

Carrie is hosting next months book club meeting, she's picked Legend by Marie Lu. Since it is not a book club kit book, you will need to purchase it online or in a store. Possibly rent from the library if its out. 

Thanks to all those that had been apart of book club over the years and more recently months. We'd like to say good luck and farewell to Melissa Young, Melissa Trenum, Sonja Philbrick and Stacey Wilkinson as they move onto a new adventure with their families!

We'd like to welcome Erin Hoellein, Jenni Kelsey, Melissa Byram and Angela Uber which are new joins this year! We are excited to have a great remainder of the year with you all!

Movie Night!!

Carla set us up in her theater room for our April book club meeting. It was fabulous! Brittany rented the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby and supplied many TASTY treats!

We wish that more girls from the club could have been there but we realize life gets crazy. However, I think we should all have a date night to see the new one! Any takers?

Melissa T. is heading up the next month's pick: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.  She has books if you need one!  I'm seeing a running theme of "classics."  Happy reading!

March Meeting

We met at Stacey's house to discuss The Memory Keeper's Daughter. It was a fun group and we all had a lot to say about the book!  Thanks for hosting, Stacey! 

The next book is Brittany's choice: The Great Gatsby.  Let's see what all the fuss is about! :)

This month we are reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. Our next meeting will be held the second week of March and Stacey will be hosting it. We are looking forward to a another fun discussion.



The next few months will be hosted by:
Stacey - March
Brittany - April
Melissa T. - May
Carrie - June

If you cannot host your month or have not signed up for a month yet, just contact Melissa Y. This should be a fun year!

February 12th Meeting

We had a fun evening at the Craven County Library in Downtown New Bern, discussing The Zookeeper's Wife and playing a rousing game of Taboo. The book club questions were not the greatest yet the conversation about the book was interesting. There seemed to be mixed feelings about actual storyline yet we all agreed that the author was too longwinded.
Thanks for another fun get together!

Come As You Like

If you know Brittany at all, then you know she can't pass up a chance to dress up as something!  She decided to ask everyone to dress up as a character from their favorite (or well-liked) book and have everyone try to match their characters to the books we brought. We had a small turn-out but the costumes did NOT disappoint! haha

We walked in the door and were immediately surprised by this guy:

Carrie dressed as the father from The Road.  She played a really good nomad, but without the smell. 

 

Melissa dressed up as Scarlett O'Hara from Gone With The Wind.  She loves period pieces and brought her well worn copy of the novel.

Brittany came as Tris from Divergent.  Don't worry, no photographer was harmed during the photo shoot!

 

We have added a few new faces to Book Club this year!  This is Jenni, Carrie's friend whom she met through their husbands' work.  She came as the dog from The Art Of Racing In The Rain.  She didn't really want to be a dog, but eventually gave in!

 

We also welcomed Stacey, a neighbor of Brittany's, who dressed up as Lyra from The Golden Compass.  It was interesting to hear the differences between England and the U.S. surrounding the book.



 

We played a really fun game called Buzz Word, and don't have any pictures because Brittany would have killed the person who stopped playing long enough to take one.  Just know that everyone left a winner! ;)  Here is our fun group--and we hope more of you can make it next time!  (Big thanks to Nathaniel, the paparazzi photographer.)

 

The book we are now reading is The Zookeeper's Wife, and Melissa Young will host February's meeting.  Happy reading!

 

 

January Kick-Off

Our first meeting of 2013 will be on Thursday Jan. 10th at 7pm at Carrie's house. Join in the fun and dress up as a character from your favorite book! Please bring a finger food to share so we can eat some yummy treats and play some games with friends. Melissa Young will have our first book of the year. Also, we welcome some new faces to book club: Stacey, Jenni, and Melissa T. We are so excited to get back into the swing of things!! See you all there!