Book: The Girl on the Train
Author: Paula Hawkins
Hostess: Betty
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Showing posts with label Betty. Show all posts
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Club meeting Thursday, July 7, 2016
During the month of June Spring Bay Bookies will read
Book: The Girl on the Train
Author: Paula Hawkins
Hostess: Betty
Book: The Girl on the Train
Author: Paula Hawkins
Hostess: Betty
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Club Meeting Monday, October 6, 2014
Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Author: Douglas Adams
Hostess: Betty
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.”
Monday, September 23, 2013
Club Meeting December 2, 2013 Monday
Book: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Hostess: Betty
****Reminder the December meeting will be held at Michael's Germantown.
Monday, January 7, 2013
Club Meeting Monday January 7, 2013
Book: The Hobbit
Author: J.R.R.Tolkien
Hostess: Betty
Betty served Hobbit food (crackers, cheese and deli meat). The SBB's had a great meeting with 11 members present. Betty, Roberta, Debbie B, Debbie DP, Nel, Lyn, Laura, Sandy, Inez, Donna, Marian.
Author: J.R.R.Tolkien
Hostess: Betty
Betty served Hobbit food (crackers, cheese and deli meat). The SBB's had a great meeting with 11 members present. Betty, Roberta, Debbie B, Debbie DP, Nel, Lyn, Laura, Sandy, Inez, Donna, Marian.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
February 6, 2012 Club Meeting
On Monday February 6th we met at the Spring Bay Branch Library to discuss Night Road by Kristin Hannah. Our hostess was Betty. She had great snacks for us root beer, 7up, mini cheese cakes, fruit and cakes. Betty did a great job hosting this book. Many questions for discussion
Members in attendance Lyn, Sandy, Debbie B, Inez, Nel, Donna, Roberta, Betty, Marian, Debbie DP and Lyn.
Our club was registered with ReadingGroupGuides.com. In the contest our club was chosen to receive copies of the book. Please see post dated December 4, 2011 for more information.
Members in attendance Lyn, Sandy, Debbie B, Inez, Nel, Donna, Roberta, Betty, Marian, Debbie DP and Lyn.
Our club was registered with ReadingGroupGuides.com. In the contest our club was chosen to receive copies of the book. Please see post dated December 4, 2011 for more information.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Club Meeting Monday October 4, 2011
Book:The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Hostess: Betty
Sandy, Marion, Debbie B, Betty, Inez, Lyn, Anna,Debbie DP, Roberta were present. Betty had great snacks for us. Great club meeting.
Hostess: Betty
Sandy, Marion, Debbie B, Betty, Inez, Lyn, Anna,Debbie DP, Roberta were present. Betty had great snacks for us. Great club meeting.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Monday, June 2, 2008
Monday, October 1, 2007
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Monday, January 1, 2007
Monday, May 15, 2006
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Saturday, May 15, 2004
Meeting September 2004
We met September 2, 2004 to discuss A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemmingway. Hosted by Betty