The Finer Things Book Club

November Book

2009-10-28T11:42:00.000-06:00

Here is a link to Suzanne Collins website.

November Meeting

2009-10-28T11:41:00.000-06:00

Tuesday, November 24th
7:30 pm
Lisa's house

October Book

2009-09-30T06:44:00.001-06:00

Check yours out from the library here.

October Meeting

2009-09-30T06:43:00.001-06:00

Tuesday, October 27th
7:30 pm
Hillary's house

September Book

2009-08-26T08:33:00.003-06:00

Check out Kathryn Stockett's website here.

September Meting

2009-08-26T08:32:00.001-06:00

Tuesday, September 29th
7:30 pm
Dianna's house

Change

2009-08-03T11:45:00.002-06:00

I just want to let everyone know that Abi changed the August book to Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Heads Up

2009-07-22T12:40:00.002-06:00

Hillary wanted to give everyone a heads about our November book.
We will be reading the newly released (in September) book, Catching Fire.
The library has started taking holds.

August Book

2009-07-22T12:33:00.004-06:00

Abi changed the book for August to Mere Christianity.

August Meeting

2009-07-22T12:31:00.000-06:00

Tuesday, August 25th
7:30 pm
Tiffanie's house

July Book

2009-07-01T11:21:00.000-06:00

When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period–people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy.

July Meeting

2009-07-01T11:14:00.001-06:00

Tuesday, July 21st
7:30 pm
Abi's house

June Meeting

2009-05-20T07:18:00.002-06:00

Tuesday, June 30th
7:30 pm
Lisa's house

June Book

2009-05-19T21:55:00.000-06:00

Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.

May Book

2009-04-22T08:18:00.001-06:00

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

In the astonishing new novel by the author of the bestsellers The Robber Bride, Cat's Eye, and The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood takes us back in time and into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, the wealthy Thomas Kinnear, and of Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence after a stint in Toronto's lunatic asylum, Grace herself claims to have no memory of the murders.
Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story, from her family's difficult passage out of Ireland into Canada, to her time as a maid in Thomas Kinnear's household. As he brings Grace closer and closer to the day she cannot remember, he hears of the turbulent relationship between Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery, and of the alarming behavior of Grace's fellow servant, James McDermott. Jordan is drawn to Grace, but he is also baffled by her. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend, a bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she a victim of circumstances?

May Meeting

2009-04-22T08:14:00.000-06:00

Tuesday, April 19th
7:30pm
Amanda's house

Book Sale

2009-04-02T08:49:00.001-06:00

The East Millcreek library is holding their annual book sale April 16th, 17th, 18th.
See more information here.

April Book

2009-03-25T08:43:00.001-06:00

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival.

April Meeting

2009-03-25T08:27:00.000-06:00

Tuesday, April 21st
7:30 pm
Tiffanie's house

March Book

2009-02-25T07:53:00.003-07:00

Jane Hayes is a seemingly normal young New Yorker, but she has a secret. Her obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is ruining her love life: no real man can compare. But when a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, Jane’s fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become realer than she ever could have imagined.
Decked out in empire-waist gowns, Jane struggles to master Regency etiquette and flirts with gardeners and gentlemen—or maybe even, she suspects, with the actors who are playing them. It’s all a game, Jane knows. And yet the longer she stays, the more her insecurities seem to fall away, and the more she wonders: Is she about to kick the Austen obsession for good, or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own?

March Meeting

2009-02-25T07:50:00.001-07:00

Tuesday March 24th
7:30pm
Hillary's house

February Book

2009-01-28T08:19:00.003-07:00

This novel depicts three generations of Southern women living together during World War II. Unworthy men marry into this formidable tribe, but they cannot break the women's circle of strength and grace. Margaret, the narrator, gently and humorously regales readers with the adventures of her grandmother, Charlie Kate, as a respectable yet unlicensed physician. Without losing her rural sensibility, Gibbons moves from her previous country settings to Raleigh, the capital of her native North Carolina.

February Meeting

2009-01-28T05:42:00.002-07:00

Tuesday, February 24th
7:30 pm
Jen"s house

January Meeting

2008-12-20T04:56:00.001-07:00

Tuesday, January 27th
7:30pm
Celeste's house

Happy Holidays!

2008-12-01T10:56:00.000-07:00