Booker Babes is not an exclusive club, but simply a bunch of good friends who enjoy reading and meeting once a month to share their lives and their love of books.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

January "Jewelia"

Our January book club met at Phyllis' home.  She had the table all decked out in snowflakes and candles.

Of course we ate--sloppy joes, tortilla chips and dip, salad, cake, Snickers cheesecake, carmels, and bourbon fudge.  Oh, and Suzanne made this cabbage dish:

I hear it was yummy!

Our book for this month was, The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives by Cheryl Jarvis.   

We had mixed feelings about this book.  Some enjoyed reading about the friendship that developed between these women who started out pretty much as strangers. Some people thought that the women in the book were just too materialistic.  Some people compared the group of women to our reading group of women!  Most of us agreed that good things came out of this experiment like, fundraising for good causes, and just making lots of people smile.  Overall, I don't think we would recommend the book.

As usual we had some great laughs.

Kim and Phyllis
                                                                  Nancy, Kathy, and Jan
And good discussions.
                                                     Phyllis, Suzanne, and Jill

Also Karen practicing her Grandma skills to get ready for the first grandchild.
We voted for our favorite books so far.  Each person got to vote three times.  Jackie used all of her votes at once while Susie encouraged her!
We had a visiting book club member, Emmitt.  He is getting ready to read our book for next month--The Shack.

2 comments:

  1. I am so missing out!!1 I am trying to be patient! What was so funny anyway??

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  2. the website is WONDERFUL! thanks for doing this, kim. but, what do you mean "you heard it (my cabbage) was good." you didn't try it? where's the love? the picture make it look like worms....perhaps it was! :)

    just wondering what is in kathy's front "pouch" pocket? did we ever figure it out? also, jackie is the only one who could have possibly given all 3 of her votes to the same book...the rest of us could not get our legs that far up in the air!

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