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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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Snippets of Christmas

December 29, 2011

Here Comes Gina enjoyed an especially wonderful Christmas this year. Joe and I hosted every member of our immediate families (a first) for the fourth Christmas Eve in a row. We worked like elves on speed in the weeks leading up to Christmas to prepare our house, the gifts and the menu, and our diligence [...]

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Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander

October 26, 2011

Confirmed: Rooney Mara will make an incredible Lisbeth Salander. Mara has transformed into the central character of one of the most highly anticipated movies in years and one of the best selling books in the world: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. HCG is a huge fan of the entire Millennium series, and we are [...]

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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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The 2011 HCG Summer Book Guide

July 29, 2011

Here Comes Gina is exceptionally proud to present our 2011 Summer Book Guide! Our 2010 Summer Book Guide was created upon the request of friend and reader A. Lud, and we realized we’d have to do a 2011 guide when people told us they were waiting for us to post it (and of course we [...]

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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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