New Book! New Book!

Thanks Shannon for a truly gourmet Book Club feast! You outdid yourself. Just so we can all remember it was salmon (with butter sauce), quiche, brocolli (with cheese sauce - need that recipe), and yummy lemon risotto/rice. Also the bread and dippers and of course the sticky toffee pudding for dessert! Soooo good.

Also some great books to choose from.

Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
Day After Night by Anita Diamant
Let the Great World Spin by Colum Mccann

And the winner was.....






Very excited to read this one...post with your thoughts/comments!
Till next month! Happy Reading

ps. Can we all go see Water For Elephants together?

A New Book

Thanks for coming last night ladies! We missed you Candice! Reviews of your book Unbearable Lightness were great. Definitely one to read if you haven't already.
Keeping in the biography genre, my 3 choices for this month were
I Shall Not Hate
Prisoner of Tehran
Left to Tell


Vote was for Left to Tell, a story about a Rwanadan holocaust survivor. I hope that it is equal parts informative and inspiring!

Until next time at Horne's House....comment with your thoughts

Book Club Recap

Thanks Kristin for a fab Book Club last night! My favourite thing is when all 8 of us are in attendance. More laughter, outrageousness, and stimulating conversation. Of course, could not go without mention the perogie casserole courtesy of K. Shew. So delicious I've told 2 people about what I ate for dinner last night, and it's only 9:00am. Soul food. Mmmmm...

General consensus is that The Outlander was a good book...receiving a 4/5, 3/5, and of course 4/100...

Kristin's Choices for our new book were as diverse as the votes for them:

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2 votes)

Wicked (3 votes)

The Slap (3 votes)

The tie-breaker determined that Wicked is our new book!



Click here for more on the author
Click here or here for more on the book
Click here for more on the Broadway Play


If anyone wants to do some extra-curricular book exchange, for those books that we love, but didn't make Book Club, post here what you have or may be looking for and we can swap at the next meeting! I've got Book of Negroes, Life of Pi, Secret Life of Bees, The Red Tent...and maybe something else you are looking for that I can't remember right now.


Next meeting is tentatively set for around third week in Feb? Brunch styles at Casa de la Tuscany? There may or may not be a brand spankin' new baby in attendance. That is too exciting. Will it be a little Charlze or perhaps a little Crazyhorse?


Have a fabulous 2 week cruise Ms. Bauer! Soak up that sun! Thanks again Kristin. Have a great read ladies, and don't forget to post thoughts here.

Book Club Recap

Big Thanks to Alana for a fun Book Club last night!!! The food was delicious...veggie chili and banana bread was so good together, I think this is how I will always serve it from now on (not to forget the real butter and salt too)


Alana's Choices for December book were:
1. The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
2. Stitches: A Memoir - David Small
3. The Outlander - Gil Adamson


The Winner IS...

Click here for the author's website - Gil is a SHE! Short for Gillian, pronounced "Jill".
Click here for an interview with Gil and David Wrobleski (our fave author of the Never Ending Story of Edgar Sawtelle). It is semi long, but interesting!

I think this will be a great Christmas read. I did a little more looking online about it and it seems like it might be reminiscent of The Birth House (1900's young heroine) and One Thousand White Women (again, Wild West and young heroine). Two books I thoroughly enjoyed.

The chase in this book takes place across Southern Alberta Crowsnest Pass area, and at some point ventures into Frank, Alberta. Didn't we all take a field trip there as kids? This should be some interesting local historical fiction, which I always am excited about.

Thanks Amber and Candice for the cute, thoughtful gifts.

I hope wherever you travel for the holidays...be it Fort Mac, Saskatoon, Kauai, Montana, Castlegar, or a cozy Christmas at home...it will be safe and filled with good eats, sweet treats, lively conversation, and deep sleeps.

Happy Christmas Reading Ladies!!!

June - Bright Shiny Morning

Aptly named book for the first day of June! I know some of us are still finishing up Edgar Sawtelle, but I thought I'd get a few postings up on the side bar for our new book for those of us that are starting soon. This Book is Amber's pick. Here is the Publisher's Synopsis...

"One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers his first novel—a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original.

Dozens of characters pass across the reader's sight lines—some never to be seen again—but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA's lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives: a bright, ambitious young Mexican-American woman who allows her future to be undone by a moment of searing humiliation; a supremely narcissistic action-movie star whose passion for the unattainable object of his affection nearly destroys him; a couple, both nineteen years old, who flee their suffocating hometown and struggle to survive on the fringes of the great city; and an aging Venice Beach alcoholic whose life is turned upside down when a meth-addled teenage girl shows up half-dead outside the restroom he calls home.

Throughout this strikingly powerful novel there is the relentless drumbeat of the millions of other stories that, taken as a whole, describe a city, a culture, and an age. A dazzling tour de force, Bright Shiny Morning illuminates the joys, horrors, and unexpected fortunes of life and death in Los Angeles."

See you on Friday!