Our First Club Meeting

Hi Girls, welcome to "Girls Night In" Book & Wine Club . We welcome local and remote sisters from California, Texas, Florida and beyond........this is a place to relax with close friends with a glass of wine in one hand and a good book in the other. Cant get any better then that :)

Lets get this party Started~

What we need to do first is, pick one of the two books I have posted below. I would like this done by Friday August the 7th 2009, so please put your vote in at the poll. If I do not have an answer by Friday I will be obliged to pick the First Book.

Once it is chosen, I will provide a coupon for the book and post it on our blog to print. It would be most appreciated for you to bring the chosen book to our first club meeting.

I will be the host for our first "Girls Night In" we will have yummy treats to pair with the wine of the evening. We will then choose a new location for each meeting there after. We will have some meetings at a comfy wine bar, and at times we may meet at a local wine tasting event. Everything will be discussed and posted on our blog.

At our first meeting we will meet and greet, get the rules and questions answered. For the remote girls you'll be part of the club via Blog and Video phone the night of the meeting.

All books chosen will be of Good Taste. But please note, a few light romance scenes or light crime related stories might be in the books we choose. If this is something your uncomfortable with please let me know. We will never read a book that could offend one of our sisters or give anyone something to question our integrity.

This is a time to get together with our dear friends to bond and read books to uplift, put smiles on pretty faces.....make us giggle....move us to tears.... and the wine to comfort us :)

I look forward to seeing you all, I will post our first GNI Club Meeting Date By Monday August 3rd.

Cheers,

Jennifer

Our First Book

I've researched Two Novels that look like fun interesting books, please review the two synopses below. If anyone opposes both books, I'm always open for suggestions. Please add your vote to the poll box to the right.

I posted a link to the Authors web page, to help with your decision making, enjoy!

The First Novel is "The Keep" by Kathryn Stockett

Its about three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women--mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends--view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.

For more information visit: http://www.kathrynstockett.com/

The Second Novel is BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, by Jennifer Weiner.

Some bonds can never be broken...

Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That's what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they're both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her school's scapegoat.

Flash-forward fifteen years. Valerie Adler has found a measure of fame and fortune working as the weathergirl at the local TV station. Addie Downs lives alone in her parents' house in their small hometown of Pleasant Ridge, Illinois, caring for a troubled brother and trying to meet Prince Charming on the Internet. She's just returned from Bad Date #6 when she opens her door to find her long-gone best friend standing there, a terrified look on her face and blood on the sleeve of her coat. "Something horrible has happened," Val tells Addie, "and you're the only one who can help."

Best Friends Forever is a grand, hilarious, edge-of-your-seat adventure; a story about betrayal and loyalty, family history and small-town secrets. It's about living through tragedy, finding love where you least expect it, and the ties that keep best friends together.

For more information: www.jenniferweiner.com/bff.htm

We look forward to thoughts & view points, fun & laughter, good wine & Company.

Jennifer Bradshaw