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Best of Book Club 2011

January 4, 2012

Any fan of HCG knows how much I love book club. I wasn’t able to post about all of the books we read this year, so I wanted to end the year with an ode to book club’s favorite reads of 2011 (in perfect HCG fashion, I’m a few days late). Also, I’m pretty obsessed [...]

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What Alice Forgot

October 10, 2011

Book club has returned! After taking August off to accommodate intense travel schedules, we postponed our September meeting two weeks and just met this past Thursday. Karen and her newly renovated kitchen hosted our first autumn gathering, and the meeting was a spectacular fall event. Karen chose What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty, which was [...]

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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

June 14, 2011

Much like the title of May’s book club selection, our May book club meeting was a bittersweet gathering. Our hostess, Torrey, bid farewell to our book club to move to Boston. We’ve all enjoyed Torrey’s contributions to our book club, and we will miss her dearly. The bitterness factor of the evening was heightened when, [...]

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

May 25, 2011

Behold, April’s book club selection! We know, we know – we’re way behind schedule with this one. Between the epic preparations and celebrations involved with DQG’s wedding this past weekend (photos to follow) and our primary employer working us harder than JT worked SNL on Saturday (alright – that’s not possible), we’ve had little time [...]

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Room

February 25, 2011

Last night I hosted our February book club meeting (!), and the night was magical. After weeks of choosing paint colors for our house, actually painting (Joe), setting the menu for the night, selecting a color theme for the table linens and floral arrangements and finding time to actually read the book, I was relieved [...]

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Half Broke Horses

February 16, 2011

One of the many snow storms that hit the Philadelphia region in January prompted the postponement of our January book club meeting to mid-February. While I was saddened to miss out on my favorite monthly activity, I did appreciate the extra two weeks to actually finish the book (alright I didn’t even finish it in [...]

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