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!