Cherlynn’s Comments (group member since Jan 21, 2013)

Cherlynn’s comments from the Whatcom Women group.

I'm sorry olivia, i was not aware. that was during the height of my medical issue. we have received 11 requests to read guernsey. Someone suggested an autobiography or A biography of Madeleine Albright and I found a book kit that looks very interesting and set during the same time called "Prague Winter: a personal story of remembrance and war". guernsey is a fast read, so it will be nice to have two options that month. we now have a book kit available 11/21 for prague winter. it'll be nice to compare and contrast the two stories (one fiction and one memoir) since I am almost finished with guernsey myself. ill be checking out prague winter in december.

List for the rest of the year! Meetup is updated!

8/27 Atonement by Ian McEwan(book kit AVAILABLE starting 7/29)

9/24 The Help by Kathryn Stockett (book kit AVAILABLE starting 8/26)

10/29 Snowflower and the secret fan:A novel by Lisa See (book kit AVAILABLE starting 9/26)

11/26 Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay (book kit AVAILABLE starting Nov 4th)

12/16 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (book kit AVAILABLE starting 11/26)

Thank you ladies for all your fabulous suggestions sent in various forms. Dates and titles were organized by book kit availability and I am so excited to have secured a book kit for every title we have the rest of this year! Happy Reading!

Our list for the rest of the year! Meetup is updated!

8/20 Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple (PNW author) (No book kit)

9/17 Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline (No Book kit)

10/22 The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Book kit AVAILABLE starting 9/30)

11/19 Joy for Beginners by Erica Bauermeister (Book kit AVAILABLE starting 10/29)

12/17 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Schaffer (book kit AVAILABLE 11/27)

Thank you ladies for suggestions during book club, meetups, emails, facebook, here on good reads and months chosen by book kit availability from the library. Looking to compile suggestions for Jan-july of 2014 selections. Let me know if you have any faves.

some emailed and chatty coffee discussed book/movie suggestions for oct nov and dec.
silver linings playbook
perks of being a wallflower
hunger games (book kit available)
the freedom writers diary (book kit available)
the prize winner of defiance, ohio (book kit available)

let me know what youd like, give your top pick a 3, second pick a 2 third choice gets a 1 and I will tally with the email/meetup conversation requests. oct will have the highest scored, nov the second highest and dec the third highest.
thanks ladies you are awesome!!

we have had numerous requests for Jane austen, particularly pride and prejudice. there was a book kit available in June and thereare ladies that can only do one or the other book club.Having one month that brings both clubs together creates a community of commraderie and could introduce ladies to each other that may not have met yet, but share a love of books. it was also an opportunity to create excitement for both clubs and ww trivia, pride and prejudice was book/movie clubs first ever offering years ago. lots of fun bringing it back.

Updated Book club lists for both book clubs. Open for suggestions for august/october and beyond, heres what we have so far....
4/9 Plain Truth
4/26 Ladies' No 1 Detective Society
5/14 Wild By Cheryl Strayed (book kit available now)
5/31 Joy Luck Club
6/11 Pride and Prejudice (lit chat and swap)
6/28 Pride and Prejudice (book/movie)(book kit reserved, available may 25th)
7/9 Sing you home
7/26 Water for elephants (book kit reserved, available June 28th)

book/movie club
8/30 Atonement (book kit reserved, available july 29th)
9/27 The Help (book kit reserved, available aug 26th)

okay there is an event march 1st at 7:30 pm it is the hugohouse series to promote writing. it is music then 3 authors giving classes. it costs. there is a book signing type event at third place books on april 23rd in forest lake park, washington on bothell way. seems free and on topic of her book wild. the retreat on the 16th is hella expensive and mostly for women writers trying to break into the publishing market. so with that detail, I. think it would be awesome to read wild in april and then go meet the author herself.

ladies no 1 detective agency has my vote but it is not a movie it is a tv show so it will be a much longer movie night.

the author of wild, cheryl strayed will be in washington in the month of march. she is coming to leavenworth to speak at a reyreat where there will be a scholarship set up in her name. ive got an email in to find out more information about her visit to washington. so im thinking possibly wild as a book choice for march?