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

Unbearable Lightness

I loved this book. I had not planned to read it because I thought how could I read that many pages about bingeing and purging...but in the end I found it fascinating! Two things in particular jumped out at me in the epilogue that I thought I needed to remember. The first was her comment about how she never sees overweight people out walking their dogs, but lots of people overweight walking on treadmills in the gym. Tha makes so much sense to me not only because I attribute a lot of my weight loss to Patch's puppy dog eyes begging me to walk him every day, but that we reap so much benefit out of life from doing what we truly enjoy. When I walk patch I almost always have a friendly interaction with another person, I meet neighbors, I get a bouncy happy dog who is so grateful and excited, fresh air, and enjoy the beautiful scenery in the downtown parks. On the treadmill at the gym it's just the whirr of machines, people plugged into iPods, and smell of sweat. Gross. I will remember this post next time I consider a gym membership

The last thing I loved from this book was the quote, I think it's on the very last page. That "true nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be." I just love that.

Thanks Candice for another great pick that I wouldn't have otherwise chosen.

Happy New Year Book Club!

Coming to you live from the new iPad! Loving this thing. Sad there were NO posts in December! I think a first in our 3.5 years!
Catching up, we all loved Room. Had another wickedly delicious meal at Casa del Bauer. Decided to read Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi (how hilarious she made that up. Seriously? I think I'm going to go by Princess Beyonce Buttercup again) also we have homework to do a daytrip from Calgary. This months meeting is delayed due to the most brutal winter of sickness that I can ever remember! Hopefully we are all well enough to get together soon, and Amber,s delicious Indian meal is spicy enough to knock any remaining colds out of us. Are you being productive with this extra time to read? I'm multitasking Unbearable Lightness and Secret Daughter. This year my resolution is to Focus and do one thing at a time, but I have to say I after a slow start to Secret Daughter, I am having a hard time putting both down!
Reading on the iPad is AWESOME. Any one else out there loving the switch to paperless? Gotta say, didn't think that I would!
Lastly, I'm doing the Happiness Project month-to-month this year. Any one want to join me?
Happy Reading! Comment what you are up to!

Prize for 'Room'

Reading the National Post this morning, I came across an article about our book pick for October, 'Room'. Glad it's getting recognized, as it was a very haunting and powerful read. Check it out.

http://arts.nationalpost.com/2010/11/02/emma-donoghue-wins-rogers-writers-trust-fiction-prize-for-room/

New Year of Books!

Hi Ladies!
It is only 9:14 and I am already home from Book Club, blogging about Book Club. Thanks Baby Cash. I am super excited that our new book is Room by Emma Donoghue. I am also super excited that we have our new year set out, as well as an extracurricular trip to Canmore coming up in a few weeks! Squeee! Don't forget to send me here, or on FB, or on e-mail the times of your spa treatments so we can map out times for coffees, shopping, hot tubs and when to head back to the condo for eating, drinking, more eating, and more drinking.

This is what we've put ourselves down for potluck so far...
Malia - Appie/Salad
Candice - Appie
Amber - Veg Lasagna
Christine - Dessert

You know I realize this is simple math, but 3 years X 12 books = 36 books we've shared! Give or take a few months. Check out our Shelfari to see where we've been! I've updated the last year. Ah the memories...

I'm trying to get back into this blogging thing, and trying to figure out how to get music going. Let me know if you have any other blog requests and I'll update.

Book Club Turns Three!

Alright ladies. Big night. Book club turns three, meaning we are entering our 4th year of book club together. Good work. Not a lot of book clubs stay together this long. And I'm proud to say that not only are we meeting once a week for wine and chats, we're actually reading books. This year, book club's birthday will be celebrated at my place, Wednesday, October 20th. Feel free to bring gifts. I kid. Come when you can, we'll have dinner, snacks, wine and conversation. Look forward to seeing you all!!

Next Meeting

So... Amber had the last meeting, which looks like I've got the next. Seeing as we didn't have a book to read... the sooner the better? I'm not even sure if this blog gets read anymore, so I'll see if there are any responds to this and if not I'll send out some e-mails. Thinking maybe soon?? We are entering into year #4 so we have to start choosing months and people. Yes?? Le excitement. I was talking to some friends the other day and they were so envious of our book club. Said that they couldn't get any of their book clubs to go for more then a couple of months. We're doing great!! And we're reading loads of books. Anyways, we'll get something going soon. This might have been the break we needed to get back on track!