Dislike

I really dislike when a book changes it's cover to an image of the upcoming movie. When shopping at one of the last standing Border's over the weekend, I noticed Water for Elephants changed the cover to an image of Reese & that Edward guy from Twilight. Many of us Read Between the Wine ladies are in Advertising, so we understand...promote people to read the book quick before the movie because we all know the book will be better. Of course then at a cocktail party you can always say "Oh yeah I read that book it was so much better than the movie" and sound super smart. Don't get me wrong I want to see the movie Water for Elephants but why not just keep the normal book cover?


















I had to buy a movie cover book when we read Julie & Julia and it really made me mad, I was emabrassed reading it. I think a fellow member even made fun of me when I brought it to Book Club. And there are lots more examples....

April Book

April's book is Invisible by Paul Auster. This was Lisa's pick and she really enjoyed it. Sounds like it's chalk full of drama, can't wait!

Also for all you over-achievers, Book Club plans on reading Signs of Life at some point by Natalie Taylor. A few of us know Natalie and went to High School with her, so if you want to get ahead start go for it. It's sure to be a major tear jerker, I can barely watch the trailer without tearing up. Hopefully it will be an inspirational story for everyone.

Another book we discussed reading last week was Heart Sick by Chelsea Cain. Katie is going to read this one and report back. Not sure it's a good discussion book, but it could be a good scary read.

Go get 'em ladies!

March Review

Cheers to us! Everyone read the book this month! Even all the girls that missed BC read the book. Ok ok, all but one person but we just like to see her frown smile monthly, so we let her attend anyways. Emily attended her first 'real' Book Club in February then hosted in March, a big cheers to her, thanks Emily!!

Little Bee by Chris Cleave was our March book, it was a good read. Overall everyone liked this book, I mean let's be honest it had to be pretty good if the whole Book Club finished, we don't exactly have a prefect record. Little Bee is about a young Nigerian refugee who changes the entire course of a young English couple's life. The story is told from two different characters, Sarah and Little Bee. This is a trend in a lot of books these days, we like it, it's a nice way to keep the book moving along. It's a sad tragic story but you'll want to keep reading to see how the story will unfold. We had a great discussion about this book, and any Book Club would have lots to talk about....really Sarah is 32? where did the book take a turn for you? what the heck were those men drinking on the beach? did you like Sarah, Little Bee, Lawrence and Andrew?

Other topics included The Little Couple, Cabrini-Green, cupcakes, TLC shows, frown smiles, how cute Emily & Katy's apartment is, cats, urban (Chicago) legends (that really are true), hair removal (I know this a topic every month but this time we really learned in detail about laser hair removal), Real Housewives of OC, Miami and NYC (how will we find the time to watch all three), NBC Thursday night line up, magic s----h, baby names, Facebook privacy settings, Spain, being over-served on an airplane and Erin Brockovich.

Also congrats to Rachel! We discussed wedding details, Catholic churches, venues, and all the good stuff! I'm sure there will be a lot more wedding talk to come!

One more thing...congrats to Katie on the new job! It's funny, the first blog ever written we were celebrating her new job at the time, so on to bigger and better things!

Another New Member

Alexis

College: Hanover College (undergrad) and Indiana University (grad school)
Hometown: Greenwood, IN
Occupation: Program Coordinator at Northwestern

Alexis lives in Uptown with her boyfriend and cat named Dante. A few fun facts: she likes talking about running and buying running clothes but not really running, she is teaching herself Urdu (a language), she is addicted to Amazon, she buys things from Sephora.com just so she can get the free gifts, she likes drawing in Microsoft paint, she recently received her masters in international education and just moved back to the city and most important (not really) she loves to read. This is actually Alexis' second Book Club, she is in a South Asian Literature Book Club and is looking for a BC with a little more wine fun! I know she has already finished Little Bee (and the lastest Us Weekly) and is looking forward to meeting everyone tomorrow night! See everyone then!

Another one put a RING on it!

Congrats to Rachel and Greg on there engagement! This comes at a prefect time, just as Tiffany's wedding comes to an end now we have a new wedding to discuss at upcoming Book Clubs. :)


Congrats again!!

National Wine Week

Who knew Smith & Wollensky hosts a National Wine Week?

March 7-11
Sample up to 10 wines for $10 with your lunch purchase.
Lunch? What? Sounds like that calls for a half day!

Click here for more info.

Little Bee

Our new book for March is Little Bee by Chris Cleave. This was an easy one to pick at the last Book Club and everyone agreed quickly. Sooo....hopefully everyone has started, you have 3 weeks. Get reading!!