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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

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…

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,…

The February meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Anne’s and everyone attended except Linda, who was traveling. Anne treated us to an amazing appetizer selection of assorted cheeses, crackers, fruit, spanakopita, deviled eggs and cookies. Jodi emailed the members a review on Lessons in Chemistry. It will be our book for…

The January meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Jan’s and was attended by Anne, Jodi, Kay, Linda, Jan and Sandie. Books members shared at the meeting: Cloud Cuckooland, by Anthony Doerr, the author of a previous book club selection, All the Light we Cannot See. The Secrets of Underground Medicine, by…