Sunday, January 22, 2012

2012 Kickoff Tea

[to the tune of are-you-ready-for-some-FOOTBALL?!]:
"Are you reading for some READING??"

hells yeah! Here we go 2012 Radicals!

Feb 24 ~ Kristen's: Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption, Thomspon-Cannino, Cotton, & Torneo
March 16 ~ Theresa's: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
April 20 ~ Amy's: We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
May 18 ~ Jade's: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
June 29 ~ Sarah's: The Time In Between, Maria Duenas
July ~ shall we see a movie together?
August 17 ~ Alayna's: An American Childhood, Annie Dillard  
September 21 ~ Heather's: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
October 19 ~ Julie: Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
November 16 ~ Leslie: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
December 14 ~ Kjirsten: Bossypants, Tina Fey

Also-Rans:
Sarah's
* An Object of Beauty, (author?)
* One Day I Will Write About This Place, Wainaina
* How to Read the Air, Mengestu
* The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir, Leslie Marmon Silko
Theresa
* The Secret History, Tartt
Heather
* The Paris Wife, Mclain
Jade
* Half Broke Horses, Walls
Julie
Still Alice, Genova
Amy
* Shadow of the Wind, Zafon
* Kafka on the Shore, Murakami
* Mistress of Spices, Divakaruni
Leslie
* Before I Go to Sleep, Watson
* And Amy chose her other option ...Kevin
Kjirsten
* The Road, McCarthy
* Sarah's Key, De Rosnay
* Yay - Heather chose my first choice, Extremely Loud...

these lists are brought to you mostly by The Enforcer, Ms. B, who asserted her wishes upon book club boot-lickers.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Swimming in the Daylight

Kicking off the Colorado weekend, Lisa spoke to students at Evergreen High School, thanks to some WonderWomen EHS instructors. 

 Before our Russian feast.
 I did say "feast."


 Colorado babushkas



Wednesday, September 14, 2011

09September - While Swimming...

About the story.

Andrei Sakharov - nuclear physicist, dissident, human rights activist; swam in the same circles as Naum Meiman, Inna's husband. (They're in a pic together in this Wikipedia article.)

Lisa blogs about wishing she could be at Sakharov's wife's funeral earlier this year.

Inna's Interview Part 1, Part 2Part 3

After you've finished the book, see Lisa's Press Conference
Part 1 - Press Conference Lisa's statement
Part 2 - Press Conference Q&A, a break from 6:00-6:20 then a news story of Inna's arrival in the US

Inna's step-daughter lives in Boulder. She was interviewed about her emigration and the work she did to help her father get an exit visa.

Friday, August 26, 2011

August - Tender / Meats, and other delights

A pleasure, down to the perfectly glazed lavander flower: Chez Messina for August's book club event featuring My Year of Meats and Tender at the Bone.
Heather's masterpiece: Ruth Reichl's Devil's Food Cake with 7 Minute Frosting.
 Is it not stunning??
 a plate of delices with (was it babaganoush?)
 oh, please remind me what we're viewing, Sarah. your purple shake-weight, it's not.
 Julie grilling up the most delicious grilled squash - recipe, pls? (citrus infused olive oil,....)
 thank you, ladies, for your contributions to our feast! your works are splendid!
 perfect city-chicken egg
 almost-pesto
 Amy's coca cola roast!
 the spread!
 yes

Tender at the Bone
This site lists recipes from the book!

My Year of Meats

Etc.

Friday, July 22, 2011

07July - The Virgin Blue

Ali Baba's in Golden for Erica's book pick, The Virgin Blue.

We were: Alayna, Amy, Erica, Kjirsten, Leslie - in other words, none of the charter book club members?!

Also of note:
~ No alcohol on the menu at Ali Baba's. Appropriately, we all drank thematically appropriate Virgin drinks.
~ We weren't sure if our waiter was going to spit in our food as we weren't the most straightforward, prepared orderers. If only he'd slipped us a few shots.
~ Kjirsten will never again order the...oh, shite, I've already forgotten what it was, the Hummus Be Schwarma??
~ Erica will be attending Train / Maroon 5 concert at Red Rocks, on the house. Wow!
~ Alayna will NOT be creating a presentation for her family reunion.
~ Leslie was up for moving past the virgins to The Spot next door, after dinner.
~ Amy generously collected leftovers to feed The Hubs.

Holy Hell! We forgot to take a Calendar picture, Erica!

Friday, June 24, 2011

06 June - Alice I Have Been

And....our first Calendar Page!!
I think we have a bit of catchup to do.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011