Wednesday, July 16, 2008

BS Book Club 7.07.08

BS Book Ladies met on Monday, July 7. We had such a good time and had a few new members join! I think my favorite part of our meetings is getting to chat with a big group of girls and hear all of their different opinions.

Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger got mixed reviews from the group. There were a few fun and funny moments, but there were many parts that weren't very relatable or thought provoking.
What did you think of the book? Who was your favorite character? Have you been reading any other books?

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

BS Book Club 6.9.08

BS Books has it's second meeting last night, and I must say...it was a huge success! We grew substantially in numbers and had an awesome discussion on Love The One You're With.


A few questions that we discussed were:
  • At what point in your relationship do you put yourself first? Your desires/career? Can you have both love and career?
  • Do you think her friend/sister-in-law should have told her about Leo coming back? When is omission lying?
  • How awesome is her sister?
  • Were you convinced that she sincerely chose her husband in her head and heart?

If you're read this and want to play Big Sexy Books via blog, we'd love to hear your thoughts! We'll talk about the web stuff at our next meeting!

We choose Chasing Harry Winston as our next book and we'll meet July 7th!

Monday, April 28, 2008

Did you read me?

If so, this is where you write what you thought of the book?
As a book club, we didn't really read it enough to make a big Q and A session out of it.

Book Club or Bust! 4.28.08

Earlier today I was sad.

I was a bad book club leader. I gave ET her book late. I forgot all about giving Ellen her book. No one (aside from MO and my Mother) read the book, including me! I'm pretty much the worst book club leader in America!

Not to mention the few people who read the book didn't like it, and everyone else who knew someone who read it thought that it sucked.

But as a Big Sexy Book Club member, I refuse to let the little things, like lack of finishing the book, get in my way!

Dinner was great. Anne, SAS, MO, and Bonnie...thanks so much for being a part of our first ramp up meeting.

After cocktails and guacamole, we decided on a new book for next month. If you're going to be a part, via Internet or meetings, please let me know so that I can be sure to include you!

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

The Wonder Spot

The votes are in , and we've decided to go with The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank. It's available right now for $6.99 at Amazon.com, Click HERE to order. Or, if you're in Charlotte, I will be placing an Amazon order on Monday, so if you would like, we can do a group order and get free shipping. Leave me a comment or shoot me an email @ sarabremer@yahoo.com , by Monday at 5PM if you would like me to order a book for you!

Review by Amazon.com:

Six years after her amazingly successful debut, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Melissa Bank rewards her fans for their patience with The Wonder Spot, a refreshingly honest interpretation of one young woman's journey into adulthood. As we follow heroine Sophie Applebaum through a comfortable, yet awkward childhood in suburban Pennsylvania to the challenges of finding love and a career in midtown Manhattan, The Wonder Spot is never guilty of the self-indulgent traps set by other members of the Chick Lit genre Bank helped launch.

We first meet the Applebaum clan on their way to cousin Rebecca's bat mitzvah in Chappaqua, New York, where Sophie ends up sneaking cigarettes in the woods with a handsome eighth grader one year her senior. Yet even this minor rebellion is more charming than anything else; as with most of her future transgressions, Sophie is less the instigator than the innocent witness. Defining moments in Sophie's life are revealed through her relationships: an almost mythical college roommate named Venice; her charismatic yet capricious older brother; her brilliant younger brother; her impenetrable father; and her hilarious grandmother, who takes it upon herself to save her "Sophila" from "impending spinsterhood."

Of course no real journey into young womanhood is complete without a series of commitment phobic, potentially delinquent, overly nice men whose appearances seem less about love than about demonstrating our heroine's inability to ever truly be comfortable with herself. As Sophie observes during a seventh grade skating party, "I felt sure that everyone was looking at me and then realized that no one was, and i experienced the distinct shame of each."

Undeniably clever, occasionally hilarious, and often poignant, The Wonder Spot is captivating enough for readers to forgive Sophie's indecisive, self-destructive tendencies and simply bask in her sincerity. --Gisele Toueg

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

I'm Starting a Book Club!

I love to read, I love my friends and I love an excuse to get together and have a girly party! So with all of these things that I love, I've decided to roll them all into one and form a book club where fabulous women can get together once a month and chat over cocktails about the book of the month.

You should join if you like the following:
  1. Girly books. Thought provoking books. Just books in general. (I will try to only pick books under $15 on amazon.com- If we order as a group, we can get free shipping)
  2. Meeting new people.
  3. Cocktails. (Especially pink ones) PS-I'll make virgin cocktails if desired.

If these aren't good enough reasons to join, call me and I'll try my best to convince you! Please leave a comment or shoot me an email if you would like to join. For my friends far away...you can join too! I will be posting comments and Big Sexy Meeting notes on this blog! Please, please, please send this to people that you know and that would be interested. I have a feeling that there will be much more than books discussed!

Also, VOTE on the side for the time that would be best for you, and the book you would like to start with. At our first meeting, we can pick the next book!