Pangman

We had our February book club meeting on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at the Library.

In January we started reading The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. As this is a very large book, we have decided to read this book over two months (January and February).

At our meeting everyone said they are enjoying the book. We all felt that the characters and story are very interesting.

Our next meeting is on March 10, 2010, 7 p.m. at the Library.

Up coming selections:

• March 2010 – The Bishop Man by Linden MacIntyre
• April 2010 – 2nd Chance by James Patterson
• May 2010 – World without End by Ken Follett

If you love to read and would like to read different type of books, come and join us at our Book Club meeting.

We had our January book club meeting on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at the Library.

Our December selection was This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy. A collection of 15  Christmas tales about love and family snarls in the season of comfort and joy, set in England, Ireland,  and Australia.

We discussed this book a bit and the consensus was that it was not what we expected for Christmas stories and  most of us did not enjoy this selection.

If you would like to read other books by Maeve Binchy, you can find more books by her on www.amazon.ca.

Our January book club selection is The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. As this is a very large book, we will be reading the first half of this book in January and the second half in February.

Our next meeting is on Wednesday, February 10th, 7:00 p.m. at the Library.

This is our second year for the Book Club. We started the book club in November 2008 and the first book we read was Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan.

Below is a list of all the books we have read so far:

• Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan – November 2008
• The Ukrainian Wedding by Larry Warwaruk – December 2008
• Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark – January 2009
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway – February 2009
• Why Shoot the Teacher by MaxBraithwaite  – February 2009
• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams – February 2009
• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald – March 2009
• Revenge of the Land by Maggie Siggins – April 2009
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith – May 2009
• The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou – August 2009
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines – September 2009
• 1st to Die by James Patterson – October 2009
• Where the Heart is by Billie Letts – November 2009
• This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy – December 2009

If you love to read and would be interested in joining the book club feel free to come to our next meeting or call Debra at 442-2055 for more information.

We had our Christmas Supper and book club meeting at Kathy’s Place on December 8th, 2009. For supper we had Turkey and all the trimmings plus delicious desserts.

After we had supper, we discussed our November book club selection, Where the Heart is by Billie Letts. Everyone enjoyed this book and we all thought it was an easy read and a great story.

This is the story of Novalee Nation, who at age 17, and 7 months pregnant was dropped off at the Wal-mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma with only $7.77 in change, by her boyfriend, Willy Jack Pickens.

Novalee meets 3 people her first day at the Wal-mart store, who later are there for her when she is in need and become her best friends. At the town library she meets the town librarian, Forney Hull, who introduces Novalee to the world of books and becomes a very important person in her and her child’s live.

After our meeting we exchanged gifts.

In December we will be reading This Year Will be Different by Maeve Binchy.

At our Novemer 11th book club meeting we discussed our October selection, 1st to Die by James Patterson. This is the 1st book in James Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club Series.

A serial killer is stalking and murdering newlyweds on their honeymoon and San Francisco Homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer takes the case.  While on the case Lindsay Boxer meets three other women–a lawyer, a reporter, and the city medical examiner. These women join forces to solve this gruesome crime and the Women’s Murder Club is born.

This book kept me in suspense until the very end, and I was very surprised at who the serial killer was.

The ladies enjoyed this book and next year we will be reading the 2nd book in this series.

In November our book club selection is Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts. Our November meeting will be on Tuesday, December 8th at Kathy’s Place. We will be having our Christmas supper at 6 p.m. with the meeting to follow.

The Pangman Book Club was started in November of 2008 by a few ladies who love to read. We had our first meeting in November were we selected our first book club selection, Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan. Currently we have eight members and we meet at the Library the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. After we discuss the book we have read, we have coffee, tea and goodies.

Our last meeting was on October 14th were we discussed  our September book club selection,  A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines. We had a lively discussion about this book and almost everyone agreed that this was a very moving and sad story.

If you have not read this book it is about Jefferson, a young black man who is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. His grandmother asks the school teacher, Grant to visit Jefferson at the prison to help him to become a man prior to his death. Grant struggles with this request, but he goes to the prison to visit Jefferson and over time he gets through to Jefferson.

Our next meeting will be at the Library on Wednesday, November 11th at 7:00 p.m.

Upcoming books we will be reading:

• October – 1st to Die by James Patterson
• November – Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
• December – This Year Will be Different by Maeve Binchy

If you love to read and would be interested in joining the book club feel free to come to our next meeting or  call Debra at 442-2055 for more information.