October - Matched by Ally Condie

Thanks to Jennifer for hosting our September book club. We had a lot in attendance and enjoyed a great discussion about The Guardian, by Gerald Lund, who first came up with the story of 13 year old Curruther's (Danni) when he was a young father making up stories to tell his children. Since he was a grandfather when he finally wrote her story down on paper, he had to enlist the help of his children and grandchildren to get the lingo of a teenager down. :)

Kendra will be hosting October's book club on Wednesday, October 16 at 7 p.m. She has chosen a young adult fiction titled Matched by Ally Condie. This is the first book in a series of 3. I am just finished the final book and I've really enjoyed them all.

Matched (Matched #1)

by Ally Condie (Goodreads Author) 

Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate... until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.

The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.

Cheese Anyone?

Finally! I am able to post again. I've been having issues with my computer and was unable to post information on August's book club and the summary for September's book. So, here's a quick recap:

We had a nice visit with one of the authors of The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale, Randall Wright.We enjoyed learning how this book came to be and about his co-author, Carmen Agra Deedy. Here's what our wonderful hostess, Fay, had to say about the evening.

Thanks to everyone who came to book club last night. It was a fun evening and Randall, the author was impressed with our group and said he had a lot of fun and it was a constructive evening for him as an author.

  Fay was a wonderful hostess and appropriately served us, what else? Cheese!