Book Clubs

[Michael R. Hicks]

I agree Gertie is going to be a great leader

Jeeze, I hope so! I'll be following along closely so I can figure out what the heck I'm supposed to do come February! LOL!

[ScrappingForever]

Ohhh! Does that mean you're going to read Outlander with us, Honey?

[mickey17]

I would love to join and read Dead After Dark - I already had it downloaded to read!  I will try to do less lurking!

[Angela]

I would love to join and read Dead After Dark - I already had it downloaded to read!  I will try to do less lurking!

Hello Mickey and welcome! Congrats on your first post!

[Betsy the Quilter]

Mickey, welcome to the KBoards, and we look forward to reading Dead After Dark with you!

FearNot, you're certainly welcome to lurk in the BookKlubs, but we warn you, posting is contagious.  There is many a former lurker here on KBoards!

Betsy

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

Jeeze, I hope so! I'll be following along closely so I can figure out what the heck I'm supposed to do come February! LOL!

At least you don't have to second guess the author.      I'm really looking forward to reading your book with you.  It will be a wonderful experience. 

[Michael R. Hicks]

Ohhh! Does that mean you're going to read Outlander with us, Honey?

<<...Mike silently ponders the idea of being in a thread where oodles of women are avidly discussing "hunky Highlanders" in kilts...how to wrap kilts...how to unwrap kilts...>>

"Ummm, yeah, dear, but isn't there going to be, like, a month-long golf marathon or something on ESPN93? You know how much I love golf - I can't afford to miss it...Oh, people don't golf in winter? Ummm..."   

[Michael R. Hicks]

At least you don't have to second guess the author.      I'm really looking forward to reading your book with you.  It will be a wonderful experience. 

I don't know about the second-guessing part! If someone were to ask me, "Hey, why did you write this part the way you did?" I'll likely respond, "Um, well, that's sort of the way my fingers decided to type it..." 

But yeah, I think this'll be a cool experience, even if nobody in In Her Name wears kilts. LOL! Besides, in my book, most of the "tough guys" are female! 

[ScrappingForever]

As if you even know what a golf ball looks like! LOL

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

I don't know about the second-guessing part! If someone were to ask me, "Hey, why did you write this part the way you did?" I'll likely respond, "Um, well, that's sort of the way my fingers decided to type it..." 

I know.  The characters do have a way of taking over the writing.  The author is hardly ever in control. 

But yeah, I think this'll be a cool experience, even if nobody in In Her Name wears kilts. LOL! Besides, in my book, most of the "tough guys" are female! 

I guess your female tough guys wear black leather. 

And as you'll see in Chapter 26, Page 425 (HB), it isn't necessary to unwrap a kilt. 

[Marci]

Oooh!  Is that available?  I love her books!  Especially "Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man", which used to be known as "Coming Attractions" (I did a book report on it in 7th grade.  Two years later, nobody was surprised when I got kicked off the newspaper staff.), but hadn't noticed it was out there.  Now I gotta go look.

Oooh!  And "Standing in the Rainbow" too!  That one was great!

~robin

    Laughing all the way!  Way to funny "2 years nobody was surprised when I got kicked off the newspaper staff"

Hey, thanks for letting me & others know her other titles are available -

Marci

[robin.goodfellow]

It was one of those insanse "scrapbook" book reports, where you had to make a scrap book of the main character's life.  And if you've read the book, you know that Daisy Fay had a deep and abiding hatred for school lunches.  So I used our school lunch menu as a page, and wrote next to it:  "Puke!  Do you see why I take my lunch money to the Pig & Whistle every day?" (which is an actual quote from the book, not just my feelings on the cafeteria lunches.)

The English teacher was not amused.  On the other hand, the scrap book book report was dropped the next year.

So it wasn't a completely wasted effort.

[Betsy the Quilter]

LOL!  Robin, you fit in soooo well here.

 

Betsy

[robin.goodfellow]

In addition, a Sweet Potato Queens book club might be fun.  I mean, there would be substantially less dressing up in costumes than goes on in the books (probably.  not on my part, but maybe on yours), but I think that would be an hilarious book club.  Also, spq.com has accessories, and we might could get Jill to sit in on some of it.  Or at least have an on-line conference or something.

If you haven't read the books, start with this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Potato-Queens-Book-Love/dp/B000FC2M9U/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1228315557&sr=1-4

I laughed so hard I hurt for the next three days.  Do not attempt to read the entire book in one sitting, especially if you are drinking Fat Mama's Knock You Naked margaritas.
Also, it's entirey possible that if we start that book club, we will also need to start a weight loss club, since so many of the spq's favorite activities are eating.

~robin

[LuckyRainbow]

Robin,

How do SPQ compare to Ya-Ya's? I love Rebecca Wells' writing. All three Ya-Ya books leave me in tears, but they also have much laughter.

The first two in the series are even reasonably priced for the Kindle at $6.39, while the third is only $8.76.

[robin.goodfellow]

To tell you the truth, I'm not sure.  I tried to read Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, but I just couldn't get into it.  For one thing, I found the narrator to be whiney to an extreme I didn't feel I could tolerate in a book.  And the SPQ books aren't novels.  They are more or less true.  Except the one that actually is a novel, and I couldn't finish that one either (also a narrator who was unforgivably whiney for the first 1000 pages about her hair.  It was endless.).  I got it for free and gave it up on bookmooch.com, so really no harm no foul there.

Additionally, Ashley Judd was in the movie, and I have a very deep-seated and personal dislike for her as both an actress and a person.

So, in reading the first one (which i believe is $4.95 on Kindle, so I may have to break my self-imposed spending embargo and get it) when they started to explain The Promise (which I will absolutely not repeat here, but will mention that I have shamelessly used it.), I had to put the book down.  It was a long bad weekend anyway, and my fiancee and I had decided that getting married to each other was a very bad idea at the end of a very long very bad fight (he started it), and you know how when you're that upset and that depressed and thinking you're going to die alone in a welfare hospital, some things just hit you as screamingly funny, and you laugh until there's no sound anymore?  Yeah.  It was like that.

I'm thinking the Ya-Ya books fall more into line with something like "The Secret Life of Bees", or "Welcome to the world, Baby Girl!".  Which is not bad, it's just different. 

Also, there are not nearly as many recipies involved in the Ya Ya books.  I have personally bought 4 copies of the "Big *ss Cookbook and Financial Planner", b/c they keep growing legs and walking away with friends.

~robin

[LuckyRainbow]

I may have to give Sweet Potato Queens a try. I have been a bit leery after seeing them on TV years ago. I think it was Today Show. They are a bit over the top.

[robin.goodfellow]

They are a bit over the top.

You must have mistaken them for someone else.  They are WAY over the top.

 

Additionally, the books are (to me) very inconsistent.  I found the second and fourth ones to be terrible.  Like they were a strain to write.  But the first one I thought was very original and very funny, and the third one was the cookbook (among other things) and I am trying to locate a hardback copy to keep in the kitchen.  We actually use several of the recipes from that one for family meals (Miss Lexie's pineapple death casserole:  yum.), and when I actually had to take food to a funeral (which is a big theme for them), I used a couple of those recipies.  One of the ladies at church said that, indeed, the food did nearly make up for the death in the church family.  At the time, she was eating cold kitchen sink mashed potatoes out of a casserole dish with a serving spoon.

Okay, that probably doesn't make sense to anyone but me:  I'm single, and frequently mention that I use my oven to store sweaters, so everyone gets fairly nervous when the time comes that I actually have to make food that they're going to have to eat.  So I made the potatoes the night before and put them in the fridge, and Miss Jan said she'd try them to make sure they weren't toxic.  I guess they were okay, since she kept the casserole dish with her and ate potatoes all the way over to where we had to drop off the food.  I asked later, they didn't actually make it to the wake.  I included the recipe in our church cookbook, and noticed a note after it was published that they were just as good cold.  So there you go.

~robin

[Linda Cannon-Mott]

LR, I read one book and although I found it humorous I found it to be derogatory toward women in some of the sexual content. They are about a group of women from MS. One was enough for me. We are all different though and I'm sure some books I like others don't.  

Linda

[robin.goodfellow]

We are all different though and I'm sure some books I like others don't.

True that.  In just this page, for example, I would know that a Ya-Yas club is not for me  (see previous post re: Ashley Judd.  You wouldn't think a person who is so tiny could be so unpleasant.), but I think an SPQ club would be a hoot.  And Linda, you are completely correct, some of the references are fairly rude and derogatory, and some things I can't believe they wrote at all.  Their mamas are going to have to change churches now.  So you might not enjoy an SPQ club as much as I might.     (My mother is constantly telling me that she's going to have to change churches.  I think she may be all talk.)

Honestly, I have to travel to Mississippi a lot, and I can't believe there is any part of it that's so interesting.  But then, I tend to have to travel to remote locations.

As Queen Latifah once said, and I believe it applies here too:  "Life's not fair.  That's why bras come in different sizes."  Except that we're not discussing "fair" or not so much as "broadly applicable" or not.

does anyone remember what my point was?

~robin

[Linda Cannon-Mott]

Robin you crack me up, you are funny as h***!  Don't want Betsy putting on one of those funny moderator hats and giving me a yellow flag.

Linda

[robin.goodfellow]

She has FLAGS?!?!?!?!


OMG.  I have to hunt up the YouTube of Eddie Izzard talking about flags when I get home tonight and put it here.  I mean, I knew about the hats, but flags?  Oh, the possibilities are endless.  We should totally try for a hostile takeover of the sony ereader board!

[Leslie]

And cards, too.

I am not quite sure where she got this collection of hats, cards, and flags. Heck, I'm a global moderator and all I have are Hugh Jackman pics and screenshots from my Kindle!

L

[Linda Cannon-Mott]

And cards, too.

I am not quite sure where she got this collection of hats, cards, and flags. Heck, I'm a global moderator and all I have are Hugh Jackman pics and screenshots from my Kindle!

L

Hugh Jackman works for me Leslie! 

[Betsy the Quilter]

And cards, too.

I am not quite sure where she got this collection of hats, cards, and flags. Heck, I'm a global moderator and all I have are Hugh Jackman pics and screenshots from my Kindle!

L

I think the cards and flags are the same thing.  No need to throw one here, but I'll put on one of my hats.... (and the Hugh Jackman pics work for me, too)



Betsy