Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time 5/20/09

Tonight's book club was so fun. Thank you Amber for opening your home for our meeting.
In attendance:
Amber, Molly, Jane, Cortney, Sarah, Joy, Lynn and welcome Laura to our book club!



We were impressed by the following quotes:

"I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death."

Prayer is better than sleep.

- from the hazzan, or call to worship

"Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of thirty-minute power lunches and two-minute football drills. Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects. He taught me that I had more to learn from the people I work with than I could ever hope to teach them."

For June - a classic:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Our next meeting will be at Sarah Ohki's home, June 17th.
It makes me sad just to type this but, next month's meeting will also be a farewell to Amber and Jane. Please, join in our Aloha 'Oi before they move to the mainland.

More books we talked about:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber
The Whole Truth by David Baldacci
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (avail 9/15/09)
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (the reviews on goodreads.com are amazingly torn on this one.)