Hello Everyone! The NWH Book Club will be meeting February 28th to discuss the current selection:

Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

This will be a Chicago themed meeting: pizza, hotdogs, beer, etc. We hope you all can come. As always, if you haven't had a chance to read the book, feel free to come and enjoy the company and food!

Look forward to seeing you!

Alison

The Girls

Our next book club selection is The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.

We are hoping to have the next meeting mid January. Either 1/17 or 1/24, please let us know which date is best for you. This will be a Chicago themed meeting...hotdogs, deep dish pizza, beer, etc.

Hopefully you will all be able to join! Keep in mind, it's great if you read the book, but if you would like to come for the company and food-please do!

The Devil in the White City:

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.

The Help

November 8th:


We all had a wonderful time at Tracey's home in Andover!

It seems that everyone enjoyed The Help and we had a wonderful meal in honor of the book. Mint Julep Martinis, Chicken Salad Sandwiches, Biscuits and Ham, Butter Beans, Caramel Cake and a fabulous Pecker Pie-you'll need to read the book to know what that is in reference to!

The NWH Book Club is pleased to announce the newest selection:

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town...

We hope many of you can attend, please see your NWH MOX for location (I believe Tracey's house) and date (beginning of November).

** Please keep in mind, we want anyone/everyone to attend and enjoy good company, food, wine. If you don't have an opportunity to read the book or can only manage the first 100 pages, please come anyway!

We look forward to seeing everyone!

Just Because.....

Moloka'i

Hello All! The NWH Book Club met on 5/31 at Beth's House to discuss Moloka'i by Alan Brennert. We all enjoyed the book, despite it's sad subject. We had a wonderful night full of good discussion, good food (see below), FABULOUS Maitai's (Thanks Kevin!) and good company!!

Our next Book Club will be (tentatively) held 10/4-10/5 on the Cape (Thanks Mary!). Since we have the entire summer and part of fall, we have chosen two books for the next meeting.

First we have chosen Larry's Kidney by Daniel Asa Rose.

The quest of two star-crossed cousins to rejuvenate Larry's failing body and ever-romantic heart,while avoiding getting tossed into a Chinese slammer. An unforgettable adventure filled with Red Guards who waltz at midnight and former enemies who prove more true than family, Larry's Kidney is the funniest yet most heartwarming book of the year.

Second we have chosen Every Last Cockoo by Kate Maloy.

Sarah Lucas imagined the rest of her days would be spent living peacefully in her rural Vermont home in the steadfast company of her husband. But now, with Charles's sudden passing, seventy-five-year-old Sarah is left inconsolably alone. As grief settles in, Sarah's mind lingers on her past: her imperfect but devoted fifty-year marriage to Charles; the years they spent raising their three very different children; and her childhood during the Great Depression, when her parents opened their home to countless relatives and neighbors. So, when a variety of wayward souls come seeking shelter in Sarah's own big, empty home, her past comes full circle. As this unruly flock forms a family of sorts, they—with Sarah—nurture and protect one another, all the while discovering their unsuspected strengths and courage.

We also plan on having a viewing of the FABULOUS ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY.... GREY GARDENS!! Here is a clip to wet your whistle: Grey Gardens

Here are some pictures from this months

Book Club Meeting:

Julie & Julia

Soon there will be a movie based on Julie & Julia: My year of cooking Dangerously!

Here is a trailer clip: Julie & Julia : Amy Adams and Meryl Streep.

I bought the book today, will gladly pass it around when I'm done! Ali

Book Suggestion

Hey,just watched the movie Reds with Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton. It's based on a book by John Reed about the time he spent in Russia during the revolution. Might be informative.
Ten Days that Shook the World

Book Donations

Hello Everyone!

The Braintree Thayer Public Library will be having it's annual book sale in May. My family is very involved with the library, all us being "Friends of the Library" and donating our time. My mother is one of the organizers of the book sale. If you have any gently used books, dvd's, video's you don't want, please bring them into work and I will bring them to the sale.

Thank You! Ali

http://www.thayerpubliclibrary.org/friends.html