Autumn Book Club Kick-Off

Hi Ladies!

I hope everybody had a fabulous summer!  I can't believe September is already here, but I embraced it fully by baking a couple dozen pumpkin snickerdoodles this afternoon, and after downing a few of those, I can honestly say I'm happy to see autumn. =)

I wanted to invite you all to join us again this year for Book Club!  I debated setting it up again, but then realized I'd really missed sharing a book with other ladies over the summer, and I love having an excuse to get together for a girls' night once a month.  So....we're at it again!

We'll be meeting once a month to discuss a piece of literature over a pot luck style, book-themed dinner. Costumes are always welcome. =) We will rotate homes each month so anyone who is interested will have an opportunity to host a Book Club meeting.

Our first book will be Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman, and we will meet at my house on Thursday, October 6 at 6 o'clock in the evening.  If you need my address, contact me on Facebook or leave a comment with your email address, and I will send it your way. We can shoot for the first Thursday of every month, or we can switch up our dates after the first meeting- we'll make a definite plan for future meetings when we meet in October. We're looking to recruit members, so if you know someone who might be interested, please pass along the invite!

Momma always told CeeCee (short for Cecelia Rose) that “being in the North isn’t living—it’s absolute hell.” Of course, having to live with Momma—Camille Sugarbaker Honeycutt, that is, Vidalia Onion Queen, 1951—doesn’t make it any more heavenly, especially when Momma starts standing in the front yard blowing kisses to passersby. You know this is going to end badly, and so it does, when the erstwhile onion queen is run over by a speeding Happy Cow Ice Cream Truck. Before you can say “sweet magnolia blossoms,” 12-year-old CeeCee is sent off to Savannah to live with her elderly great aunt, Tallulah Caldwell, and her wise African American housekeeper and cook, Oletta. It being 1967, you know there will be one dark episode of racial hatred, but it’s quickly—and conveniently—resolved offstage, leaving all the characters free to continue being relentlessly eccentric, upbeat, sweet as molasses, and living, as CeeCee puts it with a straight face, “in a breezy, flower-scented fairy tale . . . a strange, perfumed world that . . . seemed to be run entirely by women.” Light as air but thoroughly pleasant reading. --Michael Cart 

I really hope you'll join us!  I'm looking forward to coming together to chat about some great books and getting the most out of all the fun dinner ideas on Pinterest. We'd love to have a slew of women to enjoy the fun! =)  If you're up for Book Club this year, leave a comment below or catch me on Facebook and let me know.  I'll be using the blog to keep everyone informed, so be sure to check back for updates and dinner sign-ups!

Happy reading!

-Brittany