PALEHUA BOOK CLUB

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

***Ender's Game will be made into a movie was set to be released March 13, 2012 but is now pushed back to November 1, 2012! ***waiting***waiting***

Happy November Palehua Book Club!

11/08/11 I just finished our book for the month, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. If you only have the opportunity to read one sci-fi book, this is the one to choose. It's so different from nearly anything I've ever read, however, there is so much to talk about.
If you are finding it challenging, please stick it out, finish the book, there is so much for us to discuss!

***Update***

On Tuesday, November 29th at 7 PM we met at Sarah Ohki's home.

Thanks Sarah!

also in attendance:

Me!

Jennifer Aiton - Thank you for the book recommendation!!

Cortney

Jamie

Sally

Tori

Dee
Wendi Phillips - We wish you safe travels! Have a wonderful adventure for you and family!!

There were so many wonderful refreshments. They were all delicious! Sarah even made Molly Koch's famous mint brownies.

Cortney, Tori, Sarah, Dee, Jamie, Wendi, Joy, Jennifer

Some of our favorite quotes were those in the introduction of Ender's Game given by the author, Orson Scott Card, and readers' reaction to Ender's Game:

The highest praise I ever received for a book of mine was when the school librarian at Farrer Junior High in Provo, Utah told me, "You know, Ender's Game is our most-lost book." (intro. pg. xx)

Why else do we read fiction, anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody's dazzling language -- or at least I hope that's not our reason. I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we are hungry for another kind of truth: The mystic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourself. (intro. pg. xxiv-xxv)

The story of Ender's Game is not this book, though it has the title emblazoned on it. The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together. (intro. pg. xxv-xxvi)

And the favorite quote of the night pointed out by Cortney:

(Peter says to Val - he, Locke and she, Demosthenes) This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. (Chapter nine pg. 128)

Also, Saturday, November, 19th at 6:30PM The Relief Society will be shown the 3rd movie in the Love Comes Softly series, "Love's Long Journey".

And the wait is over!!!
Nov. 19th, Saturday at 11AM we saw the matinee for The Twilight Saga: BREAKING DAWN at REGAL THEATERS Pearl Highlands.
~*~*~AWESOME~*~*~

**12/11/11**UPDATE****
Our December Book Club pick is The Christmas Train by David Baldacci. We will be meeting at Joy Paet's home Tuesday, December 27th at 7PM.

Wishing you and your family

a very Merry Christmas

and Happy New Year!!

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

The House at Riverton

For September and October we read The House at Riverton by Kate Morton

Summer 1924

On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again.

Winter 1999

Grace Bradley, ninety-eight, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and old memories - long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind - begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge, something history has forgotten but Grace never could.

Set as the war-shattered Edwardian summer surrenders to the decadent twenties, The House at Riverton is a thrilling mystery and a compelling love story.

This mystery had a lot of intrigue.

Thank you for hosting Cortney!

We loved the Halloween themed spread! Everything was delicious!
Thanks Cortney for bringing out the chocolate fountain. Yes, I said chocolate fountain! YUM!

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~ Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson 8-23 ~ The Downstairs Girl by Stacy Lee 6&7-23 ~ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins 5-2023 ~ Fablehaven by Brandon Mull 4-23 ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen 3-23 ~ The Rose Code by Kate Quinn 2-23 ~ A Man Called Ove by Fedrick Backman 1-23 **Movie Night** ~ The Christmas Promise by Richard Paul Evans 12-22 ~ The Forgotten Room by White, Williams, Willig 11-22 ~ The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 10-22 ~ The Ladies Room by Carolyn Brown 9-22 ~ Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan 8-22 ~ Mr. Malcolm’s List by Suzanne Allain 7-22 ~ The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore 6-22 ~ The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen 5-22 ~ Gentleman Jim by Mimi Matthews 4-22 ~ And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 3-22 ~ When Marnie Was There by Joan G. Robinson 2-22 ~ The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See 1-22 ~ The Noel Diary by Richard Paul Evans 12-21 ~ The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright 11-21 ~ Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco 10-21 ~ The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab 9-21 ~ Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price 8-21 ~ Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah 7-21 ~ The Time In Between by Maria Dueñas 6-21 ~ The Storyteller’s Daughter by Cameron Dokey 5-21 ~ My Name is Resolute by Nancy E. Turner 4-21

~ Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon 3-21

~ Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 3-20

~ Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli 2-20

~ The Call of the Wild by Jack London 1-20

~ The Man Who Invented Christmas by Les Standiford 12-19

~ The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee 11-19

~ Tell No One by Harlan Coban 10-19

~ What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon 9-19

~ The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick 8-19

~ The Sunflower by Richard Paul Evans 7-19

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~ Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan 5-19

~ Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen 4-19

~ Girl in the Ice 3-19

~ Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch 2-19

~ The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton 1-19

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~ The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness 4-18

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~ Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline 1-18

~ The Mistletoe Inn by Richard Paul Evans 12-17

~ Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos 11-17

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~ The Rent Collector by Camron Wright 6-17

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~ Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder 11-16

~ I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells 10-16

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~ The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker 6&7-16

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~ Ready Player One by Earnest Cline 5-16
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**12th Anniversary**
~ Blackmoore by Julianna Donaldson 2-15
~ Me Before You by Jojo Moyes 1-15
~ The Gift by Richard Paul Evans 12-14
~ The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch 11-14
~ We Were Liars by E. Lockhart 10-14
~ The Maze Runner by James Dashner 9-14
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*11th Anniversary*
~ Dangerous by Shannon Hale 5 & 6-14
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~ Promise Me by Richard Paul Evans 12-13
~ My Story by Elizabeth Smart 11-13
~ The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare 10-13
~ The Sweetest Spell by Suzanne Selfors 9-13
~ Austenland by Shannon Hale 8-13
~ Anguish by Lila Felix 7-13 *10 Year Anniversary*
~ The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker 6-13
~ The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman 5-13
~ The Devil Colony by James Rollins 4-13
~ Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson 3-13
~ Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks 2-13
~ The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 1-13
~ Lost December by Richard Paul Evans 12-12
~ The Gates of Zion(Zion Chronicles #1) by Brodie & Brock Thoene 7-12 9th Anniversary
~ Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank 6-12
~ Divergent by Veronica Roth 5-12
~ The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton 4-12
~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3-12
~ To the Last Man by Zane Grey 2-12
~ Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine 1-12
~ The Christmas Train by David Baldacci 12-11
~ Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 11-11
~ The House at Riverton by Kate Morton 9&10-11
~ Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman 8-11
~ Happy 8th Anniversary Palehua Book Club 7-11
~ Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford 5-11
~ Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 4-11
~ Day of Tears by Julius Lester 3-11
~ The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 2-11
~ The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins 1-11
~ The Christmas List by Richard Paul Evans 12-10
~ The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein 11-10
~ The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin 10-10
~ Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese 9-10
~ Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 8-10
~ Happy 7th Anniversary Palehua Book Club 7-10
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~ Grace by Richard Paul Evans 12-09 & 1-10
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~ Redeeming Love – Francine Rivers 5-07
~ Fried Green Tomatoes…Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg 4-07
~ Candle In the Darkness - Lynn Austin 3-07
~ Running Blind - Lee Child 1 & 2-07
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~ At Home in Mitford – Jan Karon 9-03
~ Wish You Well – David Baldacci 8-03
~ 1st Meeting Sheri McEntire's Home July 28, 2003