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Hello snow bunnies!
Happy Wednesday.

So I was reading my NPR and came across this article. Had to shared it.

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/07/143163729/conversation-starters-2011s-top-5-book-club-picks?sc=fb&cc=fp

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A Dustcover Christmas!

Thank you Jennifer for hosting book club. It was yummy!












Te amo sin saber cómo, o cuándo, o de donde. Te amo directo, sin complejidades u orgullo; te amo tan porque no sé ninguna otra manera. Pablo Neruda









This is a picture of Federico Garcia Lorca.
This is how I imagined Daniel Varsky.

Books of 2011

Hi Ladies! Check it out - The New York Times best books of 2011!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/10-best-books-of-2011.html?_r=1&hp

In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can’t lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire gunshots in your living room; you have to listen to it in your head. A book won’t move your eyes for you the way images on a screen do. It won’t move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won’t do the work for you. To read a story well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it—everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is not “interactive” with a set of rules or options, as games are; reading is actual collaboration with the writer’s mind. No wonder not everybody is up to it.” – Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper’s Magazine (via bookoasis) (via teachingliteracy)

The Wonder Girls!

Thank you Ann for hosting! Last night was so much fun! I think Babe would have been proud of us...well maybe not so much of the two intellectuals in the group...who shall remain nameless...but I guess we cannot have it all. The food was awesome as always. You are such a good cook! I am heading to the kitchen to enjoy a bowl of that wonderful soup. It is 60 degrees here in the dungeon/office! So it is on to the next! XO marisol

You got to see this...

A friend send me this video...it is an advertising to encourage people to exercise. Worth watching

Contrex - Ma Contrexpérience - 97s from Marcel on Vimeo.

enjoy! marisol

Article about Babe in the New Work Times

Thought I would share this interesting article about Babe's fading legacy. NYTimes article See you later! marisol

Don Van Natta overview on Babe

I got you Babe!

Just sharing some pics and a short "movie" clip of our Wonder Girl


Here is the link to see  the video  of her training...

pondering

More book suggestions

Hello,

Great House by Nicole Krauss for details click here
Vida by Patricia Engel. Click here for more details

A classic from the Beat Generation writers which came after the "Lost Generation"
Jack Kerouac "On the Road"

The Paris Wife

“I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.” 

E.H. from the book " The Moveable Feast,

EH 614N  Wedding of Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway, 03 September 1921, Horton's Bay, Michigan. L-R: Carol Hemingway, Ursula Hemingway, Hadley Richardson Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway, Grace Hall Hemingway, Leicester Hemingway, Dr. C. E. Hemingway. Photograph in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.

Ernest and Hadley Hemingway at a cafe with Lady Duff Twysden and others, Pamplona, Spain, 1925.

Ernest and Pauline in Spain 

Ernest and Pauline

  

 with Bumby

A Lesson in Motherhood | Real Simple

Hello,

I ran across this article written by the Author of "The Paris Wife". A real life lesson.

A Lesson in Motherhood | Real Simple

XO

marisol

We have no horror

These photos were taken in Somalia and Kenya...2011!

Doctors without borders at work in Kenya by

Francesco Zizola / NOOR via Redux

It made me think of Little Bee

Francesco Zizola / NOOR via Redux

security guard beats a woman for trying to enter a feeding center.

John Moore / Getty Images

Need to swap my hosting date

Hello All -

I have a challenge with hosting the book club on August 25. Can anyone swap their hosting month with me? Respond as soon as possible so I can work out something else if no one can swap.

Thanks -

Ann

Book Club and a fashion show??

Hey Book Club Ladies!

I have been laughing my bossypants off at our latest book!

On July 28th, coinciding with our book club meeting, there is a champagne tasting and Anthropologie fashion show with Grace Askew playing at the Dixon from 6 to 8. This sounded like something every one of us might be interested in attending, so I was wondering if you guys might like to go! I was thinking we could have book club at the Dixon during the champagne tasting part or have book club after this event. Would you guys be interested in this at all, or would you prefer to just keep it as it is? Just throwing out an idea!

http://www.dixon.org/eventdetail.aspx?pid=6&eid=343&E_na=Events

xoxo

Lana

Impressed?

So an Impressionist exhibit is coming to the Brooks. I thought it might be fun to read this book: The Private Lives of Impressionists and then go see the exhibit. The book is like People Magazine for impressionists. All the gossip...who hated who... who was really crazy....who was having an affair with who and who dumped who etc... I know we already have a book list established through September. The exhibit runs through October 9. I know we just finished an art book.

So here's my suggestion...read the book or not...the choice is yours (I'll be reading it) and then anyone who is interested maybe we could have a book club "field trip" to the exhibit before it closes... You can still enjoy the exhibit without reading the book?!? We might even time it with a special wine tasting there or just get some wine at the brushmark (club soda for Miss Angel...)

Well let me know if you're interested in the book or field trip as an extracurricular activity!

Love,

Jess

A Night of Beauty

I just want to thank Beth and Lana for a splendid evening. Great conversations, wonderful libations, and yummy food. The art catalogs were very thoughtful and lovely. I will cherish them forever! The trivia portion was fun and the prize was awesome! 

On another note, now I know why the caged bird (me) talks too much...many hours of sitting in the basement by myself staring at a computer and yes ...The Aviator. I woke up this morning feeling like I have talked too much last night...sorry. Need to get out more often!

And lastly, for some reason last night after I got home, I couldn't go to sleep. I had a jukebox in my brain playing the New Kids on The Block and that song from Prince P###y Control! Playing some Mozart right now to help me get through the day.

Love you guys!

marisol

A Live Reading of Ulysses on Twitter

Since we talked about reading a classic, i thought this could be a good option. I read this book a long time ago and I must admit I cannot remember the content very well.

Not sure I can do the "twitter version" but I am intrigue by the concept.

click here to read more of the article

Something cool

Enter a book you like and the site will analyse their database of real readers' favorite
books (more than 75,000 different titles so far, and more than a million reader
recommendations) to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next.

Check it out! http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/

marisol

Did you guys fell asleep reading?

So, not to be pushy or anything like that but are we having a meeting soon?

Thanks!

Book Club at Lana's in April!

Beautiful Ladies!

Let's plan Book Club gathering for An Object of Beauty - How about my place, Tuesday April 26th or Tuesday, May 3rd? Would either of these days work?

xo

Lana

New York Times Book Review on "An Object of Beauty"

Thought I would share 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/books/review/Jacobs-t.html?_r=1

An Object of Beauty: A Novel

Next Book Club Selection

Has anyone started to read "An Object of Beauty"?

Book Club Meeting simply awesome!

Thank you to our host Ms. Jackson. You Rock! 
We need to plan trips to those wonderful places we all want to see and drink our way trough it!


The geek.

Reminder: Book Club Meeting today at 7:00 pm

I am bringing some libations to get us in the mood for interesting discussions and juicy chit chat.

Bookstore Bingo: 7 Crazy Things Overheard In Bookstores (PHOTOS)

This is too funny...ha­d to share. Enjoy it. mt
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

The Dust Cover: and so the journey begins

Hey! It's Amanda! Trying to become a blogger has been an ultimate challenge for me. Am I on Dust Cover???

and so the journey begins

3 bottles on wine, 1 bottle of pellegrino, Hopi stew, avocados, tortillas, dark chocolate with chili peppers, and at least 4 hours of conversations...what a start! 


love you my fellow book readers. We are definitely a very strong eclectic bunch. 

Reminder: BooK Club Meeting

7:00 pm.
Also, we need to select books for future meetings. So let's come up with a plan. Maybe we just put titles in a hat, and select. Anyway, think about it.


Looking forward to it.


marisol

If the wine is good, drink it!

This looks good. Anyone up to it?

Get To Know Your Wines Wednesday Menu for: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 This Wednesday, we will feature the following bottles of wine for half price: Hopler Riesling Regulary: $38, Tonight's Price: $19 Caldora Pecorino, Regulary: $42, Tonight's Price: $21 Peter Zemmer Pinot Nero Regulary: $48, Tonight's Price: $24 Brutocao Quadriga Regulary: $42, Tonight's Price: $21 Castiglion del Bosco Brunello Regulary: $80, Tonight's Price: $40 Come enjoy a great meal and get to know a great bottle of wine.

Next Meeting coming up!

Hello fellow bookworms!

Our next meeting is set for Thursday January 27, 2011. 

Time: 7:00 pm

place: Marisol's abode

I am looking forward to it!

Happy New Year !

Hope you are doing well! 

How is your reading coming along? Are you ready to get together? 

Please let me know what your schedule looks like so we can determine our official first book club meeting.

Looking forward to seeing you!
~ marisol