The Literary Cupcake

Date: September 11, 2009

Time: 7pm

Host: Lina

Attendees: Malinda, Meg, Jennifer

Favorite Snack of the evening: Chocolate cupcakes

Meetings will be held once a month on the second Friday of the month.  This is flexible depending on schedules.

The meeting began with a discussion of hosting and it was decided that everyone in attendance is willing to host a meeting.  Hosting will be rotated, the host for the next meeting will choose the next book, provide snacks, and lead the discussion.

No advanced schedule will be set. At the end of each meeting the next book will be decided in case someone thinks up a great book idea in the month between meetings.

There will be no genre restrictions. Everyone is open to reading new books. This did make it hard to decide what to read first though! There were requests for no horror/supernatural thrillers and no sci-fi.

There are no rules against books on tape, for those who are busy and have long commutes. We don’t discriminate, books on tape are still books, you just don’t have to do the work of flipping the pages.

The holiday schedule will be discussed and decided at the November meeting.

Our whole group is new to book clubs and quite excited about getting started.  Everyone is laid back, we have no strict rules.

Some book suggestions included:
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
March by Geraldine Brooks
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

The options were narrowed down, four suggestions were placed in a cup.
The books that made it into the cup were:
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Twelfth Night Shakespeare

The winner was: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Due to scheduling issues the next meeting has been set for Sunday, October 4th, at 1pm. Jenn Sullivan will be hosting.

Get your copy of Great Expectations from your bookshelf, your local library, or the book store and read along with us!