Our ‘bama Babes Book Party

What’s up from some of our smart and sassy Book End Babes? Things are rockin’ over in Alabama. Our queen Bs give us a full report!

BEB 3.5.10 009We welcomed 2 new members to the Alabama Chapter of Book End Babes, Diane Browning and her beautiful daughter Chey.

Queen Bees are DJ Weaver and CK Webb and other members are Sonya Price & Tammie Lane. We had wonderful homemade chicken quesadillas and drank wine and of course Merlot.

BEB 3.5.10 012 Tammie Lane chose Saving Rachel by John Locke as her read for the month, Sonya Price chose Pirate Lattitudes by the late Michael Crichton and Horns by Joe Hill, Diane chose Shades Of Midnight by author Lara Adrian and Chey chose Elsewhere by William Peter Blatty.

51cvytqCqRL._SL500_AA300_DJ took on an enormous list of books with The Organ Grinder by Sarah Curran-Ross, The Amoveo Legacy by Sarah Taney Humphreys, Terminal Neglect by Michael Rushnak, Classmate Murders by Bob Moates, Doomsday Key by James Rollins and Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.

CK chose Software By The Kilo from Larry Ketchersid, Prophecy Of Power by Andrew Parker, One Hundred Great French Books by Lance Donaldson-Evans and PREY by Thomas Emson. We are some reading fanatics here in Alabama and we love it…Real Babes Read!!!!

If you’d like to start a book club, e-mail us at bookendbabes (at) me (dot) com and we’ll give you the 4-1-1.

New Chapter of the Week: 19!!!

I’m so thrilled to welcome the newest chapters in Book End Babes who joined this winter. For the full list, go to our Twitter BEBabes directory. This week we’re featuring chapter #19 and they are so super organized, they’ve already picked out their reads from now through January 2011.
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They are an “All-for-one” chapter so they will all be reading the same book to discuss each month. All for one is the traditional book club method, but if your group is diverse and you’d like more choices in what to read simply to encourage reading, you can consider an “any four” club where your members read any of the four top picks we promote on the site or “anything goes” where your members read ANYTHING THEY LIKE but then come to book club and discuss it.

CHAPTER OF THE WEEK: Chapter 19 from the Oklahoma City Metro
queenB: Jill

Members:
Christi (Twitter @cwoodworth; Blog http://cnotes.typepad.com
Non-tweeting members: Nicole, Angela, Ali, Holly, Jenny, Julie, Leslie, Lindsay

Their book club selections for the year:
March: Lovely Bones
by: Alice Sebold
April: The Emperors Children
by: Claire Messud
May: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress (A BEB February Top Pick)
by: Rhoda Janzen
June: Hunger Games
by: Suzanne Collins
July: Chasing Fire
by: Suzanne Collins
14527968.JPGAugust: Wuthering Heights
by: Emily Bronte
Sept: Are You there Vodka, its me Chelsea
by: Chelsea Handler
Oct: The Help
by: Catherine Stockett
Nov: Redeeming Love
by: Francine Rivers
Dec: Dune Road
by: Jane Green
Jan: The Necklace
by: Cheryl Jarvis

Ready to join Book End Babes? See the about page for more info. New queenBs receive a tote bag, free book and bookmarks for your book club!

Chapter of the Week: Ch. 1

allChapter 1, headed by Malena Lott (that’s me, dear reader) has 25 members in the greater OKC metro area and 13 were able to make our first book party on October 1st. In essence, I’m interviewing myself here which is always trippy fun.

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1. How often and where do you all meet? Every other month at my house. Since I decided to have a large chapter, if more members come to a particular meeting, I’ll split the group up into two groups – family room and library. But for our first one we squeezed 13 into my family room (and it’s not a large room!)

2. What do you all eat/drink at your parties? Anything the members are willing to bring! I asked the members to bring a favorite dish (if they wanted to bring anything at all). It turned out we had just the right amount of food, dessert and drinks. I made the wedding martinis and had a pitcher of water and coffee on hand. The coffee (decaf) was a perfect way to end the evening with the yummy brownies (pictured).

afood4. What do you love best about your book club? I simply love sharing stories, period. Having my girlfriends come (some were new, some were long-time friends) and seeing what everyone chooses to read is fascinating to me and for those of us who read the same books it was interesting to hear their take on the book. As the saying goes, no two people ever read the same book. (The experience is different for each of us.) Okay, the wedding martinis were awesome, too.

We’ll be meeting again on Thursday, Dec. 3rd for our HoLITday party, where we’ll share what we’ve read since October and discuss the HoLITday Gift Guide put together by our chapters around the country. If you’re reading this and want to start your own book club or network in an existing one, e-mail me on the link in the right sidebar.

Happy reading and thanks for making reading fun, sisters!

BEbabes Chapter of the Week

009Atta-babes to our first ALABAMA BEbabes chapter, who just had their first book party last week!

1. How often do you all meet? We will be meeting once a month

2. Where do you meet? We will either meet at DJ’s or CK’s homes for now. At some point we will go out to a fantastic restaurant and have our meeting over dinner.

3. What do you all eat/drink at your parties: Light hors d’ouevres with wine or mixed drinks.

4. What do you love best about your book club?
Getting together with girl friends and discussing our fav. topic…books

011Chapter Report!

The first meeting of the Alabama Chapter of BookEndBabes met on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009 at the home of Queen Bee DJ. We rang in our first meeting with toasts and cheers of White Zinfandel and Merlot with cheese, crackers and cookies. And we were off. We discussed the books we had read and those we would like to read in the future. All our members are interested in different reading genre so we decided to let each member pick what they would like to read and then give us all a run down of their book at the next meeting.
Tammie chose installments one and two of Lara Adrian’s Night Breed Series, Kiss of Midnight and Kiss of Crimson. Sonya chose Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. CK is reading Richard Jay Parker’s Stop Me and will be reviewing this book for the WebbWeaver blog. DJ is reading Stacey Voss’ Thunder and Blood which will also be reviewed on the blog and will be part of a three-day Virtual Book Tour being hosted by WebbWeaver featuring Stacey which will end in a signed book give away. This Virtual Book Tour will be held from Nov. 1st-3rd with questions from our followers. We also have questions that the members of the book club gave us for Stacey.
A good time was had by all and the Book Club will meet again next month with reports on the books being read by our members.
So ended our first Book Club Meeting. – ck webb & dj weaver

BEbabes Chapter of the Week

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(L to R: Deena Flanigan-Kreutzer, Dani Stone, Stacie Unruh and Jennifer Wright. Deena, Dani & Stacie are Rebel book clubbers.)

Let’s see, besides being FREAKING HILARIOUS and a generous spirit, Dani Stone also reads. What’s not to love? Join me in giving an atta-babe and mimosa toast to Chapter 2 queenB Dani Stone and her Rebel Book Club in Wichita, Kansas. Can’t wait to hear more from you gals!

1. How often do you all meet? Currently we meet once a month. I know that might sound like alot to other groups but it really makes you work hard to carve out time to read when you know you only have 30 days to do it.

2. Where do you meet? We take turns meeting at each other’s homes. When I send out the nominations for the next month’s book I ask for volunteers to host. I like your idea of doing it at a restaurant though at some point, maybe somewhere that has a private party room to keep the mess at bay.

lustlizard3. What books in the past have sparked great discussion? We’ve only met twice. Our first two books were The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove and Jennifer Weiner’s latest, Best Friends Forever. Lust Lizard provided an interesting discussion because it was so odd and different from anything we’d ever read. Books that have moved us individually and sparked “mini discussions” at nomination time include, “Lovely Bones,” “My Sister’s Keeper,” and “The Red Tent.”

4. What are you reading now? Burn. I’m not quite done and we meet in less than 2 weeks so I need to get on it!! So far I’ve only heard one negative grumbling about it so I’m excited to get everyone together and talk it over.

5. What do you all eat/drink at your parties? Though I was in a previous book club that served elaborate potlucks and even themed meals, we’ve kept it very low key in the form of appetizers and wine. Anything that can be dipped with a chip or a spread on a cracker is the usual fare including a new concoction created by fellow founder, Stacie Unruh that we simply call, “Hella-Good Dip.” It’s cream cheese, Raspberry Chipotle grilling sauce and black beans, baked until it’s bubbly and hot. Delish!

6. What do you love best about your book club? The members of my bookclub are lighthearted, fun and often a little outlandish. From the beginning our motto has been, “we don’t judge.” If you want to come to bookclub in sweatpants carrying a bag of Fritos because you’ve had a bad day, that’s okay. As long as you come with an open mind, an open heart, ready to listen and laugh, you’re going to be welcomed with open arms and a full glass. ;)

Thanks, Dani! You can connect with Dani’s club by following them on Twitter. See our TwitterBEbabes directory for all the info. I hope Dani has inspired you to start up a chapter of BEbabes in your area. It’s easy! Just pop over to the Book Club page for the deets, use the invite we’ve supplied on the page and invite your girlfriends, co-workers or other interesting gals for a girls night out with great reads at least every other month.