Next Reading....

Thank you everyone for coming to our holiday book club! And thank you so much to Irene for hosting in her lovely home and providing the mulled wine... it was a big hit! Our next meeting will be Wednesday, January 19th at 7pm at Sara's house. Put it in your calendars now! :)

We will be reading one book called America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins.

Well researched and well written, America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines is a powerful and important book. Starting with Pocahontas and Eleanor Dare (the first female colonist), this lively and fascinating history records the changes in American women's lives and the transformations in American society from the 1580s through the 2000s.
A history of the oft-marginalized sex must often draw from diaries and journals, which were disproportionally written by whites; as a result, African-American and Native American women are not as well represented as white in the earlier chapters of America's Women. However, Gail Collins writes about women of many races and ethnicities, and in fact provides more information about Native Americans, African-Americans, and Chinese, Jewish, and Italian immigrants than some general U.S. history books. She writes about rich and poor, young and old, urban and rural, slave and slave-owner, athlete and aviatrix, president's wife and presidential candidate--and, of course, men and women. And some of these women--from the justly famous, like Clara Barton and Harriet Tubman, to the undeservedly obscure, like Elizabeth Eckford and Senator Margaret Chase Smith--will not only make any woman proud to be a woman, they will make any American proud to be American.
(from http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Women-Drudges-Helpmates-Heroines/dp/0061227226/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291314457&sr=8-1)




Other books of interest
Though we are only reading one book this time, I wanted to share other books of interest from this meeting in case others were interested in reading:


The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates


The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery






On Deck

We have been 'holding' onto The Help for a long while now. I looked online and the paperback release date has been pushed back to May 30, 2011. What?!? But, I also noticed that it is already released in paperback in Canada and it looks like you can buy a new/used copy from sellers.

So if anyone is dying to read it, there are some options for you. I've also seen the hardback on sale at Costco and right now the hardback is a little cheaper on Amazon than the Kindle version.

I don't know if I can wait until May to read it, so I may be purchasing on the Kindle. Let me know if there are other impatient readers that are interested.





Speaking of a "side group" of books. I know some of us discussed reading the Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1 by Mark Twain. Volume 1 is about 750 pages. So, would anyone be interested in reading some of this too. Maybe we could read half and talk about it a little in January and then read the other half?



Just some thoughts!



Have a very happy and safe holidays!!
Karina