book club: April 2010

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

April

We met last night at Stephanie's house and discussed Mrs. Mike. As always, besides the book, we discussed our own lives and learned from each other. Wonderful stuff.

Thanks Susie for providing the spring board for our discussion and thanks Stephanie for hosting.

Frances picked our next book Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It is not readily available from the library (popular book) and I can't even see any great Amazon deals. Contact Frances if you need a copy to read and also if you own the book and would be willing to lend it out.

Thanks!

I look forward to next month.

Nancy and Becky have the book for June (to be presented at our next meeting, May 4).

Words to Live By

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
--Thomas Kempis

You cannot open a book without learning something.
--Confucious

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
--Paul Sweeney

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
--Abraham Lincoln

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
--Jim Rohn

There is no friend as loyal as a book.
--Earnest Hemingway

A book is a gift you can open again and again.
--Garrison Keillor

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
--Tim Vine

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
--Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
--Frederick Douglass

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go.
--Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
--Austin Phelps

The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't.
--Mark Twain

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
--Walt Disney