Book Club at the Cabin

On July 31, it was Book Club.  It was Becky's turn to host, and we held book club at Jackie's sister-in-law's cabin up near Oakley (past Park City).  It is beautiful up there.  Not everyone was able to make it due to illness and vacations, but the seven of us that went had a wonderful time. We missed Kemra, Kim, Penni, Marla and Liz.  Becky had us each read a different book that featured a character diagnosed with Asperger syndrome (books:  Marcelo in the Real World, The White Bicycle, The Kitchen Daughter, Colin Fischer, Mindblind, and The London Eye Mystery).  We discussed the unique gifts and interests that our characters had due to this syndrome as well as the challenges it presented for them and for those that loved them.  We had a great discussion.  We talked and laughed and ate.  Becky made delicious chocolate cake.  So yummy.  We stayed up until 3:30 AM talking.  

Everyone was up by around 7:30.   Then we ate breakfast (bagels, coffee cake, yogurt, fruit, oj, milk...all provided by Becky).  About 10:30, we headed back to Salt Lake.  It was such a fun trip.  We hope this will become a new tradition.

Here's a few pictures.  I am sorry the first one is so blurry.

2013 Gift Books

Here are the titles of the books that each person received at our December book club:

Marla: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Penni: The Memory Thief by Emily Colin

Jackie: The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown

Nicole and Becky: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Bonnie: A smash book

Angie: Rosetti Letter by Christi Phillips and Gita Yuliani K.

Jenny: The House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay

Kemra: I, Saul by Jerry B. Jenkins

Darla: Far Far Away by Tom McNeal

Kim: Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell

Liz: The Star Garden by Nancy E. Turner

2014 Book List

2014 Schedule:

January: Jackie chose Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall

February: Angie chose The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton by Coonie Wooldridge and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

March: Liz chose Across a Star Swept Sea by Diana Peterfreund

April: Bonnie chose The Invisible Wall:  A Love Story by Harry Bernstein

May: Kim chose The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

June: Jenny chose The Girl on the Cliff by Lucinda Riley

July: Becky chose a theme:  Aspergers:  The London Eye Mystery, Colin Fischer, Mindblind, Marcelo in the Real World, The White Bicycle, The Kitchen Daughter

August: Kemra:  The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

September: Penni Unsaid by Neil Abramson

October: Darla  Agatha Christie books

November: Marla

December: Nicole The Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd

December Book Club at Darla's

We read Christmas Jars. We wore ugly Christmas sweaters. We ate delicious food. We exchanged books. We laughed. We missed Becky.