Thursday, May 10, 2012

Books we didn't read

Here is a list of some of the books that were presented but didn't get picked that month:
 **Please read through this list and if you can think of any others we presented but didn't choose that aren't on here leave it in a comment.
 

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
The Violets of March by Sarah Jio
Hotel on the Corner of bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Master by Toni Sorenson
Heaven is Here by Staphanie Nielson

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (this one can be picked up for free at the library)
Seven Miracles that Saved America by Chris and Ted Stewart
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
The Sweet By and By by Todd Johnson
The Garden of Eve by K. L. Going
First Do No Harm by Lisa Belkin
Heaven is For Real by Todd Burpo
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
A Year By The Sea by Joan Anderson

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Secret Journal of Brett Colton by Kay Lynn Mangum
The Message by Lance Richardson
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Forever on the Mountain by James M Tabor
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (some bad language)
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis... by Stephen E. Ambrose
The Self Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate... by Polly Young-Eisendrath
The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

The books that don't make the cut from now on will simply be listed on the blog post that reviews that month's meeting.  Do I make sense to anyone besides myself?

May 2012

We met at Nicole's house today and had a yummy lunch provided by Shannon and Lori.
Becky presented 4 books for us to consider today...
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
and the book we choose is
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metexas
 
Here is a link to the dessert we had:
 http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-eclair-dessert/detail.aspx
Chocolate sauce used was in the comment section of this recipe:
Mix 1/3 cup cocoa, 1 cup sugar in sauce pan. Add 1 teasp vanilla, 1 stick butter, 1/4 cup milk. Boil for 1 minute, then set aside to cool.