Book Club 2024: December

 I had virtual book club yesterday.  We read The Women by Kristin Hannah.

I give the first part of the book a 10 and the second part a 9.5 ...I would highly recommend it, it is about a Nurse that served in Vietnam.   Everyone in the book club liked the book. 

I ran errands in town whilst Far Guy had his infusion yesterday.  Groceries, bank, picked up our special order Christmas paper for the non existent Christmas letter and I went to the Meat Store...we were out of Bacon!  Came home put everything away, visited with my baby brother, his bride, Baxter and Smudge.  Smudge grew a bit taller when they were gone for a couple of weeks and Baxter is looking thin...I think he missed my treats (Cheerios). 

No huge improvement in my back pain yet....might be a little less pain...time will tell.

Christmas Card Report: 12 more added total is now 47.

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Book Club:November

 I picked the book for book club this month.  I read it previously and enjoyed it very much...in fact I enjoyed it the second time I read it too!  I give it a 9 1/2 out of 10.  It is a fun read.

James Patterson and Tad Safran wrote The Twelve Topsy- Tervy, Very Messy Days of Christmas

It is a good book that may inspire you to begin Christmas preparations. ( I could use a big kick in the butt to get me going on the Christmas cards)

All of the gals at book club enjoyed the book. 

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Book Club: October

 We had book club yesterday.  We read  Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen.  I give it a 9 out of a 10.  It was a short but good read all about a young man who at the age of 15 joined the First Minnesota Volunteers in 1861.  

All of the women in book club enjoyed the read.    One thought it was a very simple read, perhaps a good read for Middle School children.  I thought it would be good for any Social Studies or History class. 

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Book Club: September

 We read The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom.

I liked the book as did the other ladies in the book club.  I give it a 9 plus...not a perfect 10.   It is another historical fiction read.  

What have you read lately?  Anything good that you care to recommend? 

I still order books from Thrift Books...I still like to hold a book in my hand even though I have many books on my Kindle.   I usually pass the books along after I have read them or donate them.

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Book Club : August

 The Book Club gathered at a local park for a book exchange, snacks and a discussion of the book The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki.   It is historical fiction....that is the type of book I like best.

This was one of my selections to read.  I give it an 8 out of a 10.  It was an enjoyable read.  It might have gotten a 9 out of 10 but about 20 pages of the book were missing and replaced with a different book.  Frustrating for this reader...the other gals had to brief me about the goings on in those 20 pages.  I put the book in the paper recycling bin so it won't happen to anyone else. 

I took a few books to exchange and brought just as many back home. Not that I need another book in this house.  

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Book Club : July

 Book Club happened yesterday.  We read All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.

I give it a 8.5 out of 10.   It was a good read...a different kind of read for me.  I guess that is what Book Club is about, it gets you to read some books that you may not read on your own. 

Netflix is featuring the book as a series...four parts I think.  I fell asleep during it on two attempts because I knew what would happen next...as far as I could see it was following the book closely.   I am not sure I will visit the movie again...

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Book Club 2024: June

 We read Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.

It was a great read I give it a nine out of a ten.  I enjoyed it very much...especially the dog named six thirty.  All of the women enjoyed the book.

Onto the next book! 

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Book Club: May

We read and discussed Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan. 

I enjoyed the bee keeping aspect of the novel, the rest of it was just okay, I give it a six out of ten stars. 

Although the book is not about Mad Honey itself.  I was curious about it. 

 A plant by the name of Rhododendron ponticum grows in Nepal and Turkey. The bees gather the nectar from the Rhododendron flowers, the flowers contain a neurotoxin called grayanotoxin that is transferred to the hive and the honey. The honey can be toxic or hallucinogenic depending on the amount ingested. It was most likely the first biological weapon, the Persians left it behind for the Roman army waited a bit and then slaughtered them because they were too sick to fight back. 

Who knew?  You can legally purchase it in the United States...I saw it for sale on Amazon.  

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Book Club April

 The book we read for the April bookclub was How The Word Is Passed by Clint Smith.

I gave it a 2 barely...it reads like a text book and the author is real wordy either that or he had a lazy editor. 

The book club girls were split some liked it and some did not.  

I hope that next months read is not dull and dreary. 

Far Guy is doing pretty good, knock on wood I think he is 3/4 of the way around the corner. I still  have an eye on him.

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Book Club: March

 We had book club a few weeks ago.  We read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.

Although is is a young adult book, I enjoyed it very much, I give it a 8 possibly a 9 out of 10 stars.  It was an easy read. All the gals in the bookclub enjoyed it. 

I am going to send this over to my baby brothers house as he has some readers coming up that would enjoy this novel. 

Far Guy and I had a quiet Saturday, recovery is slow.  He is still improving a bit each day.

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Book Club: February 2024

 We had book club yesterday.  Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo.

I was not thrilled with the book, I gave it two stars out of ten.  There are three more books in the series and no one in book club was excited to read them. 

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Book Club 2024

Book Club was yesterday we read The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. 

I was impressed by the first part of the book but it went downhill from there.  It slid in my ratings from a 9 to a questionable 5.  It could have been better on so many levels.   Most of the women in the book club liked it. One said the violence was a bit much for her and she had to quit reading for a bit.  I just wanted the book to be over with.  

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