October 10th

This is Dylon M. We had the last BC at my house on October 10th. We had planned on sitting outside by the fire pit but Mother Nature thought I would be funny to snow. So we had a great fire in the den with lots of candles. Mia apparently liked the fire because she practically crawled in it. Luckily, she moved from sitting on the hearth about 15 seconds before a huge fire log rolled out to where she was sitting!!! (I've always thought she had some sort of premonition power!).

We also found out that Chester (my 3 year old English Fox Hound) was entirely too big to be in between the couch and the coffee table. His big butt knocked over a couple wine glasses, which in-and-of -itself is a tragedy! However, due to Joy and Stacey's quick reflexes no wine was spilled on the carpet. Hooray!

Other notable happenings include Amber's questions about Joy's "normal" people, Joy's gratefulness of Brooks (Mia's husband) for watching Pierce so that she could attend, and of course the much discussed "big log" I brought to the fire. A new vocab word of "nootch" was discovered but I can't remember what it means (so typical of me and vocabulary).

The book that we read was "Time of My Life" by Allison Winn Scotch. The story was about a woman who got a second chance at seeing what life might have been like if she had made other choices (and some sacrifices). This took us through a discussion of what things we would maybe like to change about our pasts and how they could have affected our future. A dabbling of fate talk was included, as would be expected from such a topic. Overall, those who finished reading the book (I'm still working my way through it!) seemed to enjoy it.

The book we decided on for next time is "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane" by Katherine Howe. We did not discuss who would be hosting the next BC. The holidays are usually a difficult time for us to put together a date that will work for everyone.

Overall, it was a great night filled with laughter and conversation. We all left with a little bit of wine in our bellies, some good memories and just a hint of carbon monoxide poisoning.

August 29

(This is Mia R.) For this BC we read "Same Kind of Different As Me" by Ron Hall and Denver Moore.  http://www.samekindofdifferentasme.com/  On the whole I think we all liked it. Our conversation about it led us to how we feel about hand outs to the homeless and homelessness in general. Some of us feel ok about giving handouts without strings, some of us feel we have a responsibility to give the person a "foothold" to better their life. We discussed the religious aspect of the book and how it contributed to our feelings about the characters. We were all touched by the emotional connection these two men felt towards each other at the end of the book. For some reason - I can't remember much other conversation about the book - help me out here girls!

Next on the agenda, picked by Amber D: "Time of My Life" by Alison Winn Scotch. http://allisonwinnscotch.blogspot.com/

We talked about meeting at Dylon's next time on October 10 for a bon fire BC! More to come on that.

Highlights from the night:
"You wouldn't care as much about what other people thought of you if you realized how seldom they do."
"You're the cutest whore I've ever seen without sores!"
"Her two favorite things in the world are Mass and Convertables."
A polite little squeek when our group pic was taken. :)

Thanks Amber for an awesome night, great food!  Can't wait until next time girls!

Our history

Our Book Club (BC) started about 3.5 years ago.  We came together as women who loved to read and who wanted to share that passion. Little did we know what BC would come to mean to us....
In the last 3.5 years we have been through layoffs, breakups, difficult pregnancies, birth of children, stressful times with friends, financial difficulties and personal losses.  And we've celebrated holidays, birthdays, weddings, engagements, new jobs, new loves, new babies, new friends, great adventures, and great wine. Our group tries to meet monthly, though it usually actually happens every 6 weeks or so. We hardly ever make it every 4 weeks only because the chemistry of us all together makes it worth it to put off the next date until the day that most of us can make it.
When we began BC we decided to meet Thursday nights. Fridays and Saturdays were days reserved for precious boyfriends, husbands, families or other obligations.  After suffering through our hangovers following that first BC we all agreed, Thursdays just would not work. I think we stayed at the inaugural BC until 1 or 2 AM. We laughed so hard we cried.  We drank enough wine to put our men under the table.  And we realized the magic of this group.
We are: Dawn V (not pictured), Stacy H, Mia R, Alli A, Amber D, Joy D and Dylon M. We are strong, loving, loyal, intelligent, successful, happy, and really fricking funny women.  We are Book Club. We are Inclement Bitches.
Don't get too excited: no secrets will be revealed here.  This is merely a way for us to chronicle our hilarious moments and actually discuss and keep track of the books we've read. (Yes, we do actually read and discuss books.) The plan is for the hostess of the last meeting to be in charge of blogging about that meeting and post our next book. Ladies, when it is your turn, make sure you indicate who is doing the writing.  We should all feel free to comment and share this with anyone who may appreciate what we're all about: good times, good friends, tasty wine and great books. Cheers!