It’s gift giving time and I enjoy making homemade gifts to give to my Book Club Babes. Every year, I spend months thinking about what I want to do and generally go through several different ideas. And every year, I figure it out about 6 weeks before our annual holiday party and then scramble to…
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Book Club/Books
Reading Update-Oct-Nov
Time to share my latest reads with you. All of these books were interesting and captivating in their own ways. The Last House Guest and The Silent Patient are murder mystery thrillers with lots of twists and turns. How Not to Die Alone is really thoughtful and deals well with many challenging themes. The book…
Book Club/Books
Monthly Reading Update-September to October
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an…
Book Club/Books
Books-Monthly Catch Up
While I was on my blogging break, I did continue reading/listening to books. I enjoyed all of the books on my list, but one (Those Who Wish Me Dead) almost didn’t get finished. This book starts out slow and with a lot of detail. I was 15 minutes away from giving up but decided to…
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Monthly Reading Update-June
I continue to crush it when it comes to reading!! My plan of reading one book while listening to another is really working. Here are the books that I have finished since my last update. This Could Change Everything by Jill Mansell SYNOPSIS: All it takes is one email to end her relationship, get her…
Book Club/Books
Monthly Reading Update
Time to update you again on what I’ve read this past month. One of my goals this year is to read more and I am happy to report that by being in two book clubs and also reading a book and listening to another at the same time, I have been able to accomplish this…
Book Club/Books
Reading List Update-what I’ve read recently
It’s time to update what I’ve read since my last post on this topic. My goal of reading more books by listening to some and reading others has been working! I’ve read more books in these last two months than I have in a long time. And this pleases me! A couple of these books…
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Books I’ve Read & Want to Read
Throughout the year, I plan to share the books that I’ve read (or listened to) and my thoughts on them. I am in two book clubs which is where I read most of the books. However, the list of books that I want to read keeps growing and I am going to try and read…
Book Club/Books
BOOK CLUB BABES-year in review
This past Saturday, December 15, the book club babes held our annual holiday party. The babes have been going strong for 13 years meeting every 6-7 weeks at each of our homes or at a restaurant. I don’t remember when we started the annual holiday party celebration but it’s been several years now. We don’t…
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Favorite Books-Book Club established 2005
As many of you are aware, I have been involved in a book club since 2005. I’m not sure when book clubs became trendy, then nerdy and now trendy again but mine has been going strong for 12.5 years! I’ve always been a regular reader and being in a book club helped me to expand…
