Thank you Rhona for opening your home for our book club meeting. Our meeting this month allowed us to bid Aloha 'Oe to Elizabeth Baldwin. We'll miss you so much! Thank goodness for email! Cyberspeakingly, you'll still be close! I was about to list all the gals that have moved away that we still keep up with, however. . .there's just too many and I'd end up bawling!!!
This was a great meeting for book discussion. We talked about "Love Comes Softly" by Janette Oke. This is the first book of 8 in the series:
The first date is the book publication date the second is the date the book was made into a movie.
1. Love Comes Softly (1979) (2003)
2. Love's Enduring Promise (1979) (2004)
3. Love's Long Journey (1982) (2005)
4. Love's Abiding Joy (1983) (2006)
5. Love's Unending Legacy (1984) (2007)
6. Love's Unfolding Dream (1987) (2007)
7. Love Takes a Wing (1988) (2009)
8. Love Finds a Home (1989) (2009)
***update9/20/2011***ALL the books have now been made into Hallmark movies. The most recent Love Finds a Home(2009) And now there is a 9th movie called Love Begins(2011) a prequel to Love Comes Softly*** AND a 10th movie Loves Everlasting Courage(2011) premiering on the Hallmark Channel October 1, 2011 - which is also a prequel to Love Comes Softly.
They are really beautiful stories. So read, then watch or just watch. ;-)
For February we will be reading "The Sunflower" by Richard Paul Evans and the February 19th meeting will be at Joy Paet's home. Yehaw! ;-)
****9/20/2011 update*** Ladies of the Palehua Ward Relief Society had a retreat this past weekend and we watched Love Comes Softly(2003), ate snacks and just enjoyed each others' company like we do so well. Such a wonderful movie and a fine adaptation of the book***
