Dear Readers,
Every once in a while I get an email from someone who is in a book club and they are reading my book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life". Peggy Grenawaldt was one of those persons and after you see the incredible photos I think you will agree. This is one email to share. Also Peggy, notice a librarian, also sent us her book clubs reading list. I more than happy to share this wonderful list too!
I love to hear from other book clubs. You can email me at kathy@beautyandthebook.com. Tomorrow I am sending the Daytime Book Club members signed bookplates for reading my book. I am more than happy to call in to book club members but as I jotted Peggy's number down wrong, they missed my call. So from now on I am scheduling those book clubs who are interested in me calling in to call me in the future!
Enjoy the Daytime Book Club and hopefully, they too will join us for our book club convention which we call Girlfriend Weekend! This year marks a milestone, our 10th Anniversary, January 14 - 17, 2010 and it will be the biggest one ever. You may email me at kathy@beautyandthebook.com or comment on this page!
Tiara wearing and Book sharing,
Kathy L. Patrick
Founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs
www.beautyandthebook.com
www.pulpwoodqueen.com
www.thebookclubcheerleader.com has featured Girlfriend Weekend on her Tip of the Week so scroll down to read it!
Hi Kathy....
We had a great book club in May using your wonderful book,The Pulpwood Queen's Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life . Thought you might enjoy seeing how your book inspired our really fun event. We had a enjoyable time playing games, having lunch, honoring a friend that passed and one moving, sharing your new book list, and discussing your inspiring book.
I recently finished the book Grace At Low Tide by Beth Webb Hart. Really loved the southern story...it was a good read. Attached are 5 photos, and copied below is our book club list for this coming year. Thought you might enjoy seeing it.
Blessings to you and happy reading!
Peggy Greenawalt
Librarian
Westlake Hills Presbyterian Church
Austin, TX
Daytime Book Club
2009-2010
Third Thursday of the Month
11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
September 17 - The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
A true tale highlighting Bernstein's childhood days during WWI in the small impoverished mill town of Lancashire, England. It tells the love story of his older sister, Lily, who is Jewish and her romance with Arthur, who is Christian. Filled with amazing character development and vivid descriptions, the reader gets an appreciation of living on a street divided invisibly by faith during the early 1900’s.
Hostess: Shirley Kopp
Neuroscientist and debut novelist Genova mines years of experience in her field to craft a realistic portrait of early onset Alzheimer's disease. Alice Howland has a career not unlike Genova's-she's an esteemed psychology professor at Harvard, living a comfortable life in Cambridge with her husband, John, when the first symptoms of Alzheimer's begin to emerge. Alice is shocked to be diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's after which her life begins steadily to unravel.
With guests Debbie Wilder and Diane Herrington from WHPC Gathering
November 19 - The Soloist (Movie Tie-In): A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez Scurrying back to his office one day, Lopez, a columnist for the L.A. Times, is stopped short by the ethereal strains of a violin. Searching for the sound, he spots a homeless man coaxing those beautiful sounds from a battered two-string violin. When the man finishes, Lopez compliments him briefly and rushes off to write about his newfound subject, Nathaniel Ayers, the homeless violinist. With self-effacing humor, fast-paced yet elegant prose and unsparing honesty, Lopez tells an inspiring true story of heartbreak and hope.
December 17 - Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the
One Midwestern winter night in 1988, a ginger kitten was shoved into the after-hours book-return slot at the public library in Spencer, Iowa. In this tender story, Myron, the library director, tells of the impact the cat, named Dewey Readmore Books, had on the library, its patrons, and on Myron herself. Through her developing relationship with the feline, Myron recounts the economic and social history of Spencer as well as her own success story—despite an alcoholic husband, living on welfare, and health and life problems.
Hostess: Peggy Greenawalt with cookie exchange & children’s book drive
January 21 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The letters comprising this small charming novel begin in 1946, when single, 30-something author Juliet Ashton (nom de plume Izzy Bickerstaff) writes to her publisher to say she is tired of covering the sunny side of war and its aftermath. When Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams finds Juliet's name in a used book and invites neighbors to write Juliet with their stories, the book's circle widens, putting Juliet back in the path of war stories. The letters jump from incident to incident—including the formation of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society while Guernsey was under German occupation. Juliet's quips are clever, the Guernsey inhabitants enchanting and the small acts of heroism vivid and moving.
Tea and Scones at Barnes and Noble 10:00 meeting
February 18 - Color Me Butterfly: A True Story of Courage, Hope and Transformation by L. Y. Marlow
This book, based on a true story, spans a 60 year period in the lives of a family of strong African American women who survived domestic abuse one generation after another. It covers four generations of mothers and daughters and their abuse, hurt, and pain. It displays the strength, courage, and faith of women when they have nowhere else to turn. Told by the very eloquent third generational daughter, Lydia; it is a tale that will keep the reader turning the pages late into the night touching the heart and giving rise to hope for victims of domestic abuse and admiration for these amazing women.
March 18 - Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia
Tsengel is a remote village in the far west of Mongolia, 1000 miles over poor roads from the capital city of Ulan Bator. British journalist Waugh decided to spend a year there teaching English while living in a ger (yurt), eating monotonous basic food, and enduring dust storms, bitter cold, filthy and unhealthy conditions, and loneliness. She befriended Mongols, Tuvans, and Kazakhs and writes sympathetically of their simple, seminomadic lives. A good study of life in contemporary rural Mongolia, the book is also an account of the author's determination to test herself in this most hostile environment.
Meet 11:00 AM for lunch
Mongolian Grille
117 San Jacinto Blvd
Austin, TX 78701-4025
Phone: (512) 476-3938
Told from the perspective of DeVeaux DeLoach, a teenager whose father, Billy, has suffered one business failure too many. His family is forced to move from their fine home in Charleston to a caretaker's cottage on the grounds of Rose Hill Plantation, which used to be the family plantation. From their new home in the South Carolina low country, the family has a clear view of a multi-million dollar development rising on a nearby island --- the very project that did Billy's business in and sent the family packing for poorer quarters. Hostess Karen Casey
Set in Hawaii more than a century ago, 7-year-old Rachel Kalama is taken from her home and quarantined in a leprosy settlement on the island of Moloka'i. Here her life is supposed to end, but she finds out that it is only just the beginning for her. This is an inspiring story full of eighty years of Hawaiian history, joy, and sorrow. It is a lovely account of a woman's journey as she rises above the limitations of a devastating illness.
Hawaiian fare and wear WHPC Parlor
June 17 - Here If You Need Me: A True Story
When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was ten years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided t o pursue her husband's dream of becoming a Unitarian minister, and eventually began working with the Maine Game Warden Service, which conducts the state's search and rescue operations when people go missing in the wilderness. She comes to discover that giving comfort is both a high calling and a precious gift. It is a deeply moving story of faith and hope.
Lyrical meditations on life, love, peace and solitude, inspired by a quiet summer at the beach, and the shells Lindbergh found along the way. This is a classic book to be read over and over.
Seafood fare and beach wear with a meeting by the pool.
August 19th - The Sweet By and By: A Novel (Paperback April 2010)
Johnson's bittersweet and often humorous debut novel portrays the lives of five very different Southern women: compassionate Lorraine, bossy Margaret, grief-stricken Bernice, ambitious April and brusque Rhonda. The story unfolds slowly over decades and life milestones, giving the characters plenty of time to reveal themselves. The underlying message of the power of love and friendship resonates, as does its depiction of the way in which people leading unremarkable lives can have a tremendous impact on those around them.
