2014 The Votes Are In

1-The Help

2-The Friday Night Knitting Club

3-The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

4-The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion

5-The Choice

6-Suspect

7-1^st to Die

8-Mrs Kimble

9-River Angel

10-The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

11-The Great Bridge

12-First Family

 

Club Meeting Monday, January 5, 2015

Book:  The Christmas Box
Author: Richard Paul Evans
Hostess:  Nel

We will be voting for our top three book club choices of 2014.

Club Meeting Monday, December 1, 2014

Book:  Suspect
Author: Robert Crais
Hostess:  Debbie
This will be our Christmas Club meeting.  We will meet at Michael's in Germantown at 6:00PM.  Don't forget to drop off your canned goods for the Spring Bay Food Pantry.

Club meeting Monday, November 3, 2014

 

Book:  The All-Girl Filling Station's Final Reunion
Author:  Fannie Flagg
Hostess:  Lyn

Club Meeting Monday, October 6, 2014

Book:  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Author:  Douglas Adams
Hostess:  Betty

 

Review of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galax – Don’t Panic

By Betty Pugh

You will either love or hate this book.

If you want a sensible, comfy book, a quiet story progressing rationally from scene to scene, you should pick up a nice cozy mystery featuring tea and scones and cats with psychic powers.   Relax quietly with a warm afghan and do not get this book.

If you prefer a manic romp with galactic freeways, depressed robots, and falling pots of petunias (“Oh no!  Not again!) then grab the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and buckle your seatbelt.  The ride WILL be fast and bumpy. 

This book spoofs all Science Fiction and is a parody of itself.  It blasts science fiction clichés to bits, fries the bits up with bacon and blasts them again.  I laughed out loud the first time I read this book, and laughed aloud again thirty some years later.

A plot exists.  Arthur Dent sees first his home and then his planet destroyed and escapes with his buddy on a passing spaceship.  The plot is secondary to the adventure, however, and merely a base for a crazed romp.  The book’s writing is jumpy and a reader might think pages or explanations are missing.  Jittery is apparently just how author Douglas Adams thinks as the style is the same in all his books.

Recall that Hitchhiker was written in 1979.  The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galax is an electronic book, though, a new concept that inventers were happy to make available to the real world decades later.  Like the best fiction, it created its own truth.

I read a lot, so it is rare for me to be surprised by plot or characters, but after thirty years, Hitchhiker still amazes me.  If you would enjoy a crazy literary romp, I recommend you read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.  As a reviewer on Amazon wrote, “It's like Monty Python and Kurt Vonnegut melted together and spread on toast -- crisp and tangy and a little bit ridiculous.”

Club Meeting Thursday, September 4, 2014

Book:  Mrs. Kimble
Author:  Jennifer Haigh
Hostess:

Club Meeting Monday, August 4, 2014

Book::  The Help
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Hostess:

Club Meeting Monday July 7, 2014

Book: The Friday Night Knitting Club
Author:  Kate Jacobs
Hostess:  Rae Lynn Williams

Club Meeting Monday June 2, 2014

Book: The Choice
Author: Suzanne Woods
Hostess:  Marian

2013 The Votes are in...........and the winner is

Every year the Spring Bay Bookies vote for their favorite book club book. 
This year given 1st choice 5 pts, second choice 3 pts, and third choice 1 point.


1. The Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Steadman

2. The Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts hostess Kim

3. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

4.Tthe Hunger Games by Suzanne Colllins

5.The Sweet By and By by Todd Johnson

6. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

7. Home Front by Kristin Hannah

8. Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews

9. Save Me by Lisa Scottoline

10. How to be Lost by Amanda Eyre Ward and The Hobbit by J.R.Tolkein

11. Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Stout

Club Meeting Monday May 5, 2014

Book: First Family
Author:David Baldacci
Hostess:  Donna

Club Meeting April 7, 2014

Book:  River Angel
Author: Manette Ansay
Hostess:  Sandy