Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley

Thank you for hosting Cortney! Happy Birthday Keri!!

Thank you for the great book recommendation Maria. This was every bit enchanting of a read as could have been hoped for. I can see why it is one of your favorites. Thank you for sharing it will all of us.

From Goodreads.com : A strange imprisonment...

Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage.

When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father protests that he will not let her go, but she answers, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"

Robin McKinley's beloved telling illuminates the unusual love story of a most unlikely couple, Beauty and the Beast

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - 5/24/2011

Thank you Rachel for hosting this month's book club meeting at your beautiful home.
For May we read Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford.

We also wished Lynn Lambert a Happy Birthday and Aloha 'Oe. We love you Lynn and you will be greatly missed though only an email, status update, tag or tweet away!!

In attendance:
Rachel, Cortney, Sarah, Joy, Jamie and Lynn.

We are in need of some suggestions for the Summer. Feel free to suggest away!

Happy 7th Anniversary!

While there wasn't a Book Club meeting planned in July, we had a couple opportunities to celebrate. For Laura's birthday many of us met for dinner on July 14 at Aunty Pasto's in Kunia. Then for the opening weekend of Twilight: Eclipse, a group of us watched a matinee at Regal Theaters, July 3.


Aunty Pasto's July 14, 2010

Leticia Davis, Veronica Peterson, Laura Smith, Shelley Atkinson,
Cortney Nadig, Joy Paet, Sarah Ohki, Cindy Barton, Julie Basham

Our August meeting will be held on 8/18/2010 the book is
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
We will meet at the Kapolei Consolidated Theaters lobby at 7:00 for the 7:30 showing.

Graceling 5/26/2010

This month celebrated birthdays!








Trisha Sessions(May 5), Lynn Lambert(May 25),
Sarah Ohki(May 31) and Molly Koch(June 2).

What a fabulous cake Cortney!


For fans of The Goose Girl (Jan.'09 - one of our book club favorites) Graceling by Kristin Cashore will ring true and kick-it-up-a-notch.
Graceling is a term for a person with 'extreme skills' called a Grace. The main character Katsa's Grace is killing, so you can be sure there is violence...and she is supremely skilled.

Quote of Katsa while speaking to her nursemaid:

"I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.
"It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.
She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face."

In attendance this evening:
Molly, Sarah, Joy, Trisha, Moana, Jamie, Veronica, Laura, Cortney, Lynn and Wendi

We enjoyed a quiz to see who was a graceling and what skill they might be graced with. Unsurprisingly(surprisingly?), no one had the Killing Grace. A few with the Fighting Grace. Quite a few with the Relationships Grace and one with the Calming Grace that likely saved us all from a night of undignified behavior! (jury still out on that one)
Thank you all for gracing my life with laughter and sisterhood!
~Joy

The Glass Castle - 7/16/08

Happy 5th Anniversary Book Clubbers!!

I hope everyone had an enjoyable time at the Paet home on Wednesday night.

The Poet Spotlight was given by Joy.

From Runny Babbit - a Billy Sook by Shel Silverstein:
Runny be quimble,
Runny be nick,
Runny cump over the jandlestick.
But now -- what smells like furning bluff?
Guess he didn't hump jigh enough."

We talked a little about The Glass Castle and then time sure got away from us!

Ah, the snacks sure were yummy, anyway. *grin*

Some interesting quotes & questions:

"I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a dumpster."

"Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting.
"Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom.
"Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering."

HOT TOPIC: When Jeannette and her brother find a diamond ring, they immediately want to sell it for food, but their mother keeps it to "improve her self esteem." Really? REALLY?

"Mom and Dad liked to make a big point about never surrendering to fear or to prejudice or to the narrow-minded conformist sticks-in-the-mud who tried to tell everyone else what was proper."

HOT TOPIC: Was the U-haul the best place to ‘store’ the Wall’s children on their trip across country? Really? REALLY??

And finally, a lesson on self-reliance anyone?

...the wood was chewed through everywhere. We kept stepping on soft spots in the floorboards, crashing through, and creating new holes. "Darned* if this floor isn't starting to look like a piece of Swiss cheese," Dad said one day. He told me to fetch him his wire cutters, a hammer, and some roofing nails. He finished off the beer he was drinking, snipped the can open with his wire cutters, hammered it flat, and nailed it over the hole. He needed more patches, he said, so he had to go out and buy another six-pack. After he polished off each beer, he used the can to repair one of the holes. And whenever a new hole appeared, he'd get out his hammer, down a beer, and do another patch job.

In attendance:
Joy, Molly, Moana, Arielle and Trisha

We had fun answering trivia questions from our book choices from July 2006 - July 2008. I only did the two most recent years instead of five because, well goodness, it is a lot of books!

For the Month of August we will be reading "These is My Words" by Nancy E. Turner.

**UPDATE** Congratulations to Sarah & Takuya and family on your newest arrival. Kenji Cavalier Ohki was born July 22nd. We know you are enjoying your new son.

Leticia Davis Birthday Fiesta 6/19/07

At Sarah Ohki's house. Sarah you did an amazing decorating job! How FESTIVE!!!!Molly Koch, Leticia Davis, Sarah Ohki, Trish Sessions, Jaquie Franco, Debbie Sell and sister-in-law, Emily Walthius, Jennifer, Keri Magaoay, Bonnie Sessions, Jackie Healy, Codee Franco, Joy Paet, Billie Laws, Tori Sessions

Lety Love! Amor! Amor! Muy, Muy Amor!










Bonnie and Lety kicking up their heals!








What is Lety laughing at do you say? . . .





















. . .We will not soon forget the Mariachi Serenade by a certain Tori-Session's-husband.
Dave, what talent!

Our book for June 2007:
Sea Runners by Ivan Doig
It was a collective bomb. Sorry, to say.
Anyone say different and I'll update this post. =)