The November Wine and Words Book Club holiday gathering was held at the Northwater Restaurant at the Holiday Inn. We enjoyed a fun time together over happy hour refreshments and food, talking about our Thanksgiving plans and reminiscing about book we read. Thank you, Linda, for making the arrangements. Linda, Sandie, Kay, Jan, Jodi, and…

The October meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Cindy’s. Everyone was able to attend but Karen, who was traveling in the South. Lou served us a delicious meal of barbecued pork, brown rice and green salad. Cindy served a raspberry cobbler pie with ice cream for desert. Linda made reservations for…

              Our September 2019 Wine and Words Book Club meeting was held at Jodie’s and Ken prepared a wonderful paella recipe from Julia Child’s The French Chef cookbook. Everyone but Kay attended the meeting. Members told us about book they had read over the summer months. Ann enjoyed Property…

The May meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Karen’s at the last minute because Cindy was not feeling well. Karen served a wonderful salad and we heard about everyone’s travels, Karen & Anne to France/Belgium and Kay to Israel. Very little was discussed about the book for May, which was Becoming,…

The Wine and Words Book Club meeting for April, 2019, was held at Kay’s. Kay, Sandie, Linda, Jan and Ann attended. Kay served a green salad and prepared two wonderful pizza crusts. Members each brought a topping for the pizza. We ended up with a delicious variety of pizzas made with mushrooms, tomatoes, roasted red…

The March meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Ann’s and everyone attended.  Anne served potato leek soup and a delicious endivey, beet and goat cheese salad. We discussed the book for this month, Magpie Murders, and everyone seemed to enjoy it. The book within a book concept was fascinating, but it…

The February meeting of Wine and Words was held at Linda’s home. She served a delicious homemade minestrone soup and coleslaw. For dessert we enjoyed a cacophony of delicious chocolates artfully arranged in a martini glass. Linda, Cindy, Ann, Jody, Sandie, Karen and Jan attended. Karen needs to trade the March meeting date with someone.…

The January 2019 meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Jan’s. Everyone was able to attend. Jan served a delicious green salad and lemon chicken and ice cream with fresh raspberries and chocolates sauce for dessert. We had fun catching up, since our last gathering was in November. Sadly Jan’s husband, Dick,…

The November Wine and Words Book Club meeting was held on Nov. 27, 2018 at Chat Noir, everyone but Jodie were able to attend. We discussed the book for November, This Is How It Always Is. Most of the members enjoyed the book, but Linda felt it was too predictable. We talked about how different areas in the…

The Wine & Words Book Club meeting for Sept./Oct was held on Oct. 10 at Sandie’s – Everyone attended, including Sandie’s sister, Lindy. Sandie served a Fall-themed meal – Indian Summer Salad, Butternut Squash Soup and Pumpkin Pie ice cream (from Trader Joes). Book for Sept. was Killers of the Flower Moon, by Grann –…