September-December Meetings!

Yes, the Book Club is still meeting! We now meet at Jennifer D's house, unless of course we aren't for some reason. Here's the schedule til the end of the year.

Thursday, Setptember 23: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis


Thursday, October 21: Edgar Allan Poe Party
Bring camp chairs and marshmallows for the bonfire in Jennifer's back yard. Hot dogs and popcorn will be provided. We'll be discussing several shorter works by Edgar Allan Poe:
The Raven
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Cask of Amantillado
The Pit and the Pendulum


Thursday, November 18: The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, by Terry Ryan


Thursday, Dec 16: Bring your own short Christmas story/book to share and a wrapped book for the gift exchange. And, of course, food.

Join the Unspeakable Menace!

January 2010's meeting will be on Thursday the 28th at 8:30 PM at Amy's as usual.

From page 248:
"By the 1890s women's reading clubs were a respected part of community life . . . But in the early years they were controversial. When the New England Women's Club was founded in 1868, the Boston Transcript predicted that "Homes will be ruined, children neglected, woman is straying from her sphere." In Greencastle, Indiana, a newspaper editorial attacked Elizabeth Ames, founder of a local women's club, claiming she had "lured women from their duties as homemakers" to join an "unspeakable menace."