Thursday, August 26, 2010

alone in a book club....

Hello fellow "bookclubbers"

I say this in quotations because as you can observe I am alone here in this book club. Tanna has talked to me and apolagized asking if she can re-start in September, so she is sitting this book out. She also requested to not pick the next book as she has deemed herself unworthy. Taylor- do you want to choose the Septemberbook?

Strickland

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

TANNA DAWSON

TAnna-

are you out there?? we are all worried about you...please join us on the blog :)

strickland

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

First Impressions?

Hey guys!

Just wondering what everyones first impression is. It had my attention just about right away. It's not filled with mystery and romance or anything, but I love when an author can write so candidly about their unique upbringing and also find humor in really dark areas of their life. I always wonder in books like these, do they ever get nervous writing harshly about family or do they just not let them read the book? haha...

strickland (Taylor is a Thompson officially now so im the only strickland on this blog;)

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

So does everyone have their book now? I'm not sure about Tanna. I know you got onto the blog but do you have the book yet? Let me know.....

Monday, August 2, 2010

schedule

Hey-

ok Taylor semt me a message (did you meant to comment on the blog? I think you just emailed me....)about possibly setting up a schedule. I think we should let Tanna choose next since we all kinda agrees on the first book without her there. So TANNA- you can choose the September book (choose wisely or we will kick you out ;). After that I dont care...how about Taylor next then wrap it up with Kaufman then start over? How does that sound?

August- Strickland
September- Tanna
October- Taylor
Novemeber- Kaufman

Any ideas for how we help this flow properly with our comments? I think we sould all agree to comment once a week at least, and maybe you can just write about whatever you have read, not sure if this will ruin anything for people who aren't as far...but maybe not. So I have already read the first 2 chapters of this book, i'll wait alittle to let people read a few before I comment! I really enjoy it so far but I'm also reading the "posionwood Bible" which is great.

-Strickland-

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Introducing the first book!

hey guys-

well, three out of four of us were camping together when we came up with this book club, so we thought of a book we would like to start with. I actually will claim this as my choice for this month, since it is a book Brett bought me for my birthday. We would like for whoever chooses the book of the month to list the name and author of the book, a brief description of the book, and why you chose it. Nothing is off limits (well...you know what I mean) so choose whatever you want even if you don't know if others will like it. we are here to cultural ourselves :), because i know i would never be caught dead reading a jane austin novel but i have a feeling someone (Taylor) will force me to. Here is the first book:

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (National Bestseller)
Author: Anne Lamott

Instead of describing it myself, i'll just quote the New York Times Book Review. "Even at her most serious, she never takes herself or her spirituality too seriously...Lamott is a narrator who has realized and soaked up the details of her existence, equally of mirth and devastation, spirit and grief, and spilled them onto her pages."

I chose the book 1. because brett bought it for me and he usually has good taste on books he knows i would enjoy. 2. i like this quote by her, "the best two prayers I know are "help me, help me, help me" and "thank you, thank you, thank you." I like this because I have always considered by faith something simple. I have never been one to love praying in front of people because I dont chose to use big words or long drawn out sentences. My faith is something simple, but also something very real to me which has grown and evolved (and still is) throughout my life.

Bethany S.