January 2025

The January 2025 meeting was at Jodi’s and everyone but Kay was present. The book for Dec-Jan was The Chancellor, by Kati Marton about Angela Merkel. The members liked the book. She was very diplomatic and kept her opinions to herself. Anne is watching The Crown and thought Margaret Thatcher is a lot like Angela…

October, 2024

The October meeting of the Wine and Words Book Club was at Sandie’s home, with everyone but Linda and Kay attending. Sandie put together a charcuterie board on a lazy Susan loaded with cheeses, meats, dried apple chips, blackberries and pumpkin spiced pecans. Check out the spider web decorated brie! We discussed the book for…

September 2024

Book Club Notes – Sept. 24, 2024 The meeting was held at Kay’s. Everyone attended except Linda and Anne. We sat outside in the back yard under Kay’s new pergola. We talked about native plants, garter snakes and drying fruit. Our summer reading selection was  The Kingdom, The Power & The Glory by Tim Alberta, who…

May 2024

We had a great meeting at Cindy’s home. Good food with book club ladies. As usual not a lot of discussion on the latest book, but lots of lively banter. I think the consensus on The Starless Sea was that it was not as good as The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. The next meeting…

March 2024

The March meeting of the Wine and Words Book Club was at Linda’s. Karen, Jodi, Sandie, Linda and Kay attended. We decided to change the meeting time to 4:30pm on Tuesdays from now on. The book for this month is How to Know a Person by David Brooks. Jodi said “A good book that makes you realize…

January 2024

Dear Ladies, We missed you at our book club meeting, Cindy, Sandie, and Jodi. We hope you are all doing better. Jan did a great job hosting, as always. We had wine and appetizers. We talked about Hello Beautiful and the consensus was that it was okay. Here are the new book suggestions: Recommended reads:…

October, 2023

Wine and Words Book Club Summary from 10/24/23 The October meeting was held at Karen’s and she provided a fruit, cheese and salmon platter from Whole Foods, which were awesome. She served them on three wooden platters with handles that Karen found on the Food 52 website. They no longer carry the platters, but it…

June, 2023

The meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Jodi’s and we enjoyed hors ‘d oeuvres and peach Aperol spritzer cocktails. They were delicious! The book for the month was Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt, which is a wonderful story about a woman who befriends an octopus. Anne is reading: The…

Spring 2023

Note taking for the past few meetings was sparse, so this is a summary of March and April, 2023, of the Wine and Word Book Club meetings. In March the meeting was held at Linda’s and we discussed Lessons in Chemestry, by Bonnie Garmus. We discussed the Best Picture winner, Everything, Everywhere, All at Once,…