Ann's comments
(member since Dec 09, 2008)
Ann's comments from the The Book Club for Fun, Fabulous Females!!! group.
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Caroline wrote: "We can always throw in the suggestions from the last couple of months that we haven't read, too."
That's a good idea. . .we can take some of the "second place" books from previous months and vote on those.
Twenties Girl A Novel
I haven't read Kinsella's latest, but it sounds interesting!
[close:] Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young women don’t get visited by ghosts. Or do they?
When the spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie–a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance–mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie’s possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Lara, on the other hand, has a number of ongoing distractions. Her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa, her start-up company is floundering, and she’s just been dumped by the “perfect” man.
Sadie, however, could care less.
Lara and Sadie make a hilarious sparring duo, and at first it seems as though they have nothing in common. But as the mission to find Sadie’s necklace leads to intrigue and a new romance for Lara, these very different “twenties” girls learn some surprising truths from each other along the way. Written with all the irrepressible charm and humor that have made Sophie Kinsella’s books beloved by millions, Twenties Girl is also a deeply moving testament to the transcendent bonds of friendship and family.
Sounds like fun to me!
Any suggestions for a venue? I think we originally chose the Tysons area b/c it was central for those of us west and east. And Jenn, congrats, you're almost there! Just relax and enjoy your day (and those leading up to it!)
I'll be willing to lead. I'm with Jenn, let's try somewhere else. Let's go somewhere fun where we can all have a cocktail (I may need one if we're talking about one night stands) ;)
I'd like to suggest The Secret Life of Bees.
In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owens, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic.
The Secret Life of Bees
I would like to recommend that we only read an author once. This group has introduced me to some wonderful authors that I have, on my own read other books by them, that not necessarily everyone would have wanted to read (Kate Jacobs!). This way, we get a variety.
Ok, I must confess, since I hadn't heard anything, I went and saw it on Sunday. It was so cute!!
I would be interested as well. If anyone is interested I wouldn't mind going to see Confessions of a Shopaholic when it comes out and we can discuss Cinderella Rules over lunch afterwards?
I thought it was cute.
Keeping with the Valentine theme. . .I suggest: 
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