Quick Update...

Hello!
How's everybody?

Feels like forever since our last meeting for me because I missed one. February 20th at 6:30 at Alana's...I won't post your address and phone number here!

Shannon picked up Cholera at Costco on a super sale, so be sure to look there first. I haven't started our next book Love in the Time of Cholera, but it seems I'm always a book ahead. I searched Chapters Online Calgary locations for Mommies Who Drink and there are zero available in the city stores. Who all would like to go in with me on an online order? The irewards price is $11.73. Remind me to make a list at the meeting!

I feel like Water for Elephants was a book I could revisit time after time after time. Does any one else feel that way? Something to discuss at the meeting...looking forward to it.

First Rule of Book Club - Broken

You know how when you would sneak into the house at night and wouldn't want your parents to hear so you'd try to be super quiet and you end up crashing and banging around? Seems the same applies to the rules of Book Borrowing.

All weekend I treated The Other Boleyn Girl like gold, careful not to bend pages or bend the spine, and especially careful not to fuzz up the corners of the cover. So as Brian and I are driving home from Banff and I'm reading he decides to crack open a can of pop which had been in the truck all weekend. Of course it was still halfway frozen or something and starts to fizz all over his lap. He trys to cover it with his mouth to no avail. So then he lets go of the steering wheel, we start to swerve all over the road as he opens it fully with both hands (thinking this will stop the explosion). When he realizes this won't work he opens MY side window and proceeds to chuck exploding can of Coke Zero, over MY lap, soaking through 10 pages on each side of the pages I am reading, and through MY window. I can not repeat on this blog the words I had for him at that moment in time.

So in a few weeks my soiled copy of The Other Boleyn Girl will be available for borrowing to those who have clumsy ass husbands or otherwise would like to take the book to a beach, gym, or equally treacherous reading locations without fearing damange as it is no longer perfect. Kristin - you'll have a copy as new as the one you lent me!!!

Extracurricular Reading...

Hello!
So sounds like most of us are able to make a mid-week book club on February 20. That works great for me! Keep us posted on plans and what we can bring Alana!

I finished Water for Elephants and thought it was a great easy read and a good story, can't wait to hear what you all think. I asked Brian if we could go to the Circus next time it comes to town. He looked at me like I was a circus freak. So he compromised and we are going to ride Elephants in Thailand which will be a fun tie in to this book.

I am waiting for the super long plane ride on Feb 24 to start Love in the Time of Cholera. I think the Hollywood writers strike has done wonders for my reading time and I found myself grappling for pages to turn in the meantime this week. I must admit that I have been dreading picking up my borrowed book from Kristin, The Other Boleyn Girl. It is a huge book and I have the preconceived notion that it would be similar to the Outlander series because it's a mideviel setting. There I go again, judging a book by it's cover.
To get myself motivated the first thing I did was watch the trailer for the movie coming out in February. Click the Link on the side bar to watch it...you will not be disappointed! I wish every book had a movie trailer instead of just the description on the back...how many more books would they sell!? I could not wait to start it after that preview! If you remember from a few months back my need to associate book characters to movie stars you can imagine how delighted I was to have it done for me before I started.
Long story short ~ if you whiz through Elephants like I did, pick up Boleyn Girl for some extracurricular reading and we can go see the movie together! Has anyone else read this book already? Kristin...don't watch it without me!!

I attached the Cholera Movie trailer on the side bar as well!
Happy Reading!

Water for Elephants...

Hi Gals...

I missed the meeting on Friday. Tear. What are the details of next meeting? I'm over halfway through Water for Elephants and I am sad that I don't see more pages. I get the sense it'll be one of those books that is over too soon...but we shall see. Has every one started? Any one finished? Comment so I'm back in the loop!

Musings on a Mundane Monday

Interesting. First time I've noticed the similarity in the two words. Mundane. Monday.

6:30 came early.
Crap, it's Monday.
House is frozen.
Damn near froze on the way to work.
Fax machine broken.
E-mail slow.
Work no fun.
12:00, time to do some cardio.
Groan.
Crack open new book ~ Water for Elephants
30 mins of sweat and pain fly by.
The day is much improved.
Sometimes a good book is really good medicine.

See you on Friday

An excerpt from "Whitney, My Love"

"His hands went to her waist to shove her away, but Whitney pressed closer. Timidly, she touched her tounge to his lips, hoping he would like it if she kissed him that way. He went rigid. Every muscle in his body drew taut, hardening against her. Her tounge slid between his barley parted lips, enountered his, recoiled in wild alarm (Christine - I'm sorry, but since when do tounges recoil in wild alarm?) - and then crept back for one more sweet, forbidden touch. And her world exploded with the violence of his response. His arms went around her, crushing her to him as his mouth opened over hers, slanting fiercely back and forth. His tounge plunged boldly into her mouth, probing, as if to verify it's welcome there."

Repeat this paragraph 50+ times, change some adjectives and adverbs, and there you have it. Whitney, My Love.

Ps. Book Club at Amba's sounds great! What can I bring? Some finer things?

Vacay Reading

Hello Book Club!

I'm back from vacation in Mexico! Not wanting to get ahead on Water for Elephants, and not wanting to bring harm (water damage, curled pages, creasing the spine) to The Other Boleyn Girl, I dove into Brian's Mom's xmas gift to me "Whitney, My Love". It is exactly as it sounds, a soft-core Harlequin romance and it's over 800 pages for crying out loud! I've really struggled with it. My dilemma is it is her "FAVOURITE" book, like, of all time. We are a no-opinions-barred Book Club, but how do you tell someone their best book is a major snore? Don't get me wrong, I love a good love story, but one that brings tears to my eyes and not "the passion of his tender heat to my loins" By the way I'm going to bring the book tomorrow to give you all an excerpt. I can't say it was a total dud...as after 4 Bahama Mama's by the pool in Ixtapa I would start reading some of the more "smoldering" paragraphs to Brian and that would entertain me for a while, and most of the loungers beside me.

Next meeting is FRIDAY, JAN 25, to discuss Lullabies for Little Criminals and be sure to bring your books from Christmas exchange for extra curricular borrowing.
Last question is WHERE are we meeting? Did we decide?
BIG THANKS again Kristin for the great hostessing of the last meeting and all that delicious wine and sushi. Love it.