May Meeting

Book: "Mrs. Mike" by Benedict and Nancy Freedman
Date: Thursday, May 27th at 8:00 pm
Location: Heidi Barker's house


We will be watching an old production of "Mrs. Mike" in Heidi Barker's theater room! Please bring a treat to share!!

April Meeting

Book: "The Friday Night Knitting Club" by Kate Jacobs
Date: Friday, April 30th, at 7:00 pm
Location: Brooklyn Brothers Pizza


For our April meeting, we will meet on next Friday, April 30th at 7:00 pm at Brooklyn Brothers Pizza in downtown Everett, across the street from the hockey rink (on Hewitt). I was recently introduced to this place by my new employer and coworkers. Let me tell you, it's one you won't want to miss! They have authentic Brooklyn-style pizzas and cheesy breadsticks to die for!! (Eric will be very jealous, maybe I won't tell!)


Please let me know if you want to attend. It is definitely one we'll want to carpool for, especially for the limited parking.

April Book

Our book for April will be "The Friday Night Knitting Club," by Kate Jacobs.

Here is a brief synopsis:

"Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday Night Knitting Club. Her friends are happy to escape their lives too, even for just a few hours. But when Georgia's ex suddenly reappears, demanding a role in their daughter's life, her whole world is shattered.

Luckily, Georgia's friends are there, sharing their own tales of intimacy, heartbreak, and miracle making. And when the unthinkable happens, these women will discover that what they've created isn't just a knitting club: it's a sisterhood."

Want some pie with that?

Our March meeting for book club was great!

We met at my house, where we discussed "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society," by Mary Ann Shaffer. We also endulged in enough pie to feed an entire Literary Society!

Those who attended were: JoLyn Thompson, Carrie Howell, Maryanne Wight, Audrey Sisco, and myself. Thanks for such a great night, Ladies!!

March Meeting

Date: Friday, March 26th, at 8:00 pm
Location: Heather's house

We will be enjoying pie while discussing "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society."

March Book

For March I chose a book that I have heard great reviews of. I am really excited to read it. It sounds both touching and entertaining. It is "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society," by Mary Ann Shaffer. I tried to find an official synopsis for you, but it was only about one sentance long, so I resorted to copying a synopsis written by a reader posted on Amazon.




"During World War II, the Germans occupied Guernsey in the Channel Islands, so close to France that, apparently, you could see cars on the highway on a clear day. The Germans built heavy fortifications against the islanders, built a concentration camp on Guernsey, and Guernsey's children were evacuated to England.

Juliet Ashton is an author looking for her next great idea, when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams, who lives on Guernsey, about Charles Lamb, to whose works he was introduced through the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. The Society came to be in an unusual fashion: one evening after curfew, on their way home, some of its members were stopped by German soldiers, and Elizabeth McKenna had to make something up on the spot. Over time, the members got together whenever they could to talk about what they'd read. That's how Isola, for example, became addicted to Wuthering Heights.

Juliet lives in a London that was decimated by war; her apartment by the Thames has been lost, as well as all of her books (as you can imagine, horrifying). But her career as a writer is going well, and she has a potential love interest: the handsome and rich Mark. But Juliet's life changes as she receives more and more letters from the Guernsey Islanders, and she decides that she just might have to pay them a visit."

Correction....

We will be meeting this Friday, March 5th instead to see "Dear John." Same time and everything else!