September 16 Meeting at Sharon's

Tonight we conclude our 2nd year of "Good Time Girls Book Club". We're read quite an assortment of books over these past two years and I look forward to reading some more.
Sharon greeted all her soggy guests with wine and cheer because it finally rained. Praise Allah!  After the usual catching up of events over the past month, we were treated to baked chicken, zucchini & rice, salad and Chapati bread.

Now we come to the main purpose of our meeting - to discuss the book we read (right girls??) --"Three Cups of Tea" about Greg Mortenson. He’s an incredibly likable guy, with a passion to fulfill his promise to build schools for Pakistan girls. All agreed he's a driven individual who's sacrificed family, health and personal gain but I had to admit I didn't like the book. I thought the author had too many jabs against Americans, he thought that Mortenson could single-handedly solve the problems for these people and "everyone wasn't doing their fare share" and it just made me mad, but I'm not sorry I read this book.

OK, now to the business part of our meeting. Grace passed around a sign up sheet to host next year's book-club meetings. Next meeting all members need to present their book titles. We decided not to change any of the rules, however, if we do not like the length of a book we will conduct a "bitch session" at that meeting. A list of all members current information will be passed out at the next meeting.  Grace will contact the library to try to hold books for our meetings.
Sorry to say, Gayle decide to opt out of our bookclub to pursue her singing career. We will miss her. She always read the books and then some! Edna will ask Nora Porterfield to take Gayle's place.

Our next meeting will be at Grace's house on Oct 28 and we will read "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen.

Good night Gracie,
KAthy G