We had a very special guest at book club this month. Since it was my last physical book club (conference call next time!! :)), the girls invited Blackie and brought presents!! :) Thank you all of you girls. You are all very special chicks and I love you!! :)
We had a hard time staying focused on the discussion of the book (what else is new). Teri had some questions that she found online. We all enjoyed the book and it opened our eyes to the struggles of a mixed race family, what a mom is capable of and how family dynamics can either really make you or really mess you up.Our average rating was 7.69 and our descriptive words were.....
Easy Read
Fascinating
Compelling
Encouraging
Confusing
Harrowing
Enlightening
Captivating
The next book discussion will be at the Ladderhouse on June 18, 2009. The book is a mystery called Murder Passes the Buck by Deb Baker. Here's a little tidbit to get you excited....
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Gertie Johnson may be outspoken, distrustful of banks, and a quick draw with the pepper spray, but she hasn't lost her marbles. Her son Blaze, the sheriff in a backwoods community of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is petitioning to become her legal guardian, but Gertie, a sassy sixty-six-year-old widow with a taste for detective work, has got bigger fish to fry: solving the murder of Chester Lampi who was shot dead in his deer blind. Blaze-who's more interested in retiring than investigating-rules Chester's death as a hunting accident. So, Gertie takes on the case with help from her friends, man-hungry Cora Mae and pin-curled Kitty. Interrogating neighbors, spying, impersonating the FBI . . . the stubborn, spunky grandmother won't give up the chase even when the killer takes aim at her.
