April 19 Meeting at Sharon's

The evening started off with a BANG but I won't go into details.  We settled down to a wonderful meal of chicken enchilada and salad and although it wasn't in keeping with the book, it was all good.  We ate like we we preparing for the Iditarod. Dessert was served to ease us into the discussion of "Winterdance" by Gary Paulsen.

Sharon liked the book and found it out right funny, which several others agreed.  The poor guys was getting beat to death.  He almost seemed like a cartoon character, it was down right amusing.  Alice related several stories of people she knew who lived in the wilderness they call Alaska.  She and her family  witnessed a smaller dog race up in Corning.  Louisa took a cruise to Alaska and saw the training ground of Susan Butcher.  Susan Butcher is noteworthy as the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1986, the second four-time winner in 1990, and the first to win four out of five sequential years. Sharon related that the animal rights groups are protesting the inhuman treatment of the dogs in the Iditarod but the mushers counter that the sled dogs are well cared for. They say they take better care of the dogs than they do of themselves, which is probably true.  Edna commented that some pets are treated better than humans.We all agreed that this was one tough race and that this is crazy.  No one was signing up for it any time soon. 

For May's Meeting we decided to go out to dinner at the "Black Eyed Susan" in Williamsport, MD. Everyone can read a book of choice and feel free to discuss it on May 17.  We will decide where to meet as the date gets closer. 
Check out the reading list as several people have now revealed their book choice.
June 21's meeting will be at Ellen's and we will read "50 shades of Grey" by E.L. James - shame on you Ellen, we'd expect something like this from Edna........ha ha.  Can't wait to start reading it.

Great seeing you all, especially Ellen who looks "marvelous"!

GEE,
KAthy G
Hello to Pat and Linda.  Grace is cruising the Mediterranean so I'm sure she just doing fine.