Room, by Emma Donoghue

Our August book club meeting was at Anissa's this Saturday night, where we discussed her selection, Room, by Emma Donoghue.  Anissa served a kind-of stuffed lasagna that was absolutely to-die-for.  Cara brought a delicious summer spinach salad, Suzy brought sourdough bread (my FAVORITE!) and this was all followed by a beautiful dessert pizza, handmade by the beautiful and incredibly talented Farrah Fox.  Oh and then there was another dessert that Anissa made:  caramel brownie cheesecake turtle trifle.  I'm not even kidding.

Anissa's stuffed lasagna

We got things kicked off with some wine spritzer-laced conversation that involved Sunday and Cara gettin-jiggy-wid-a guy named Wally who was creeping on them at Shooters.  Apparently Mr. Wally was crushing on Sunday, but she wasn't interested.  He had teeny tiny fingers.  You know what they say about guys who have tiny fingers....

There were mixed feelings on the book.  Anissa and I felt that it needed more meat at the end.  Something a little more gripping, I guess.  Farrah got bored with it altogether.  Or maybe that was Suzy.  I know it wasn't Lisa.

The overall rating, based everyone's feedback, is probably a 3.  I personally would give it a bit more than that, just because I liked how different it was than any other book I've ever read.  I also thought the 5-year-old's perspective was honest and true to a child that age.

Serena, Anissa, Farrah, Lisa, Kristan, Sunday, Suzy, & Cara

After dinner and wine, we realized our movie was about to start, so we hit the road.  Not everyone could come, unfortunately.  Suzy, Sunday, and Cara played the "I'm tired" card and bailed.  I'm not suggesting they weren't really tired, but they were all freshly made up and I'm thinking there may be something to this Wally thing, and Suzy wanted a piece of the action.

Farrah, Anissa, Lisa, our neighbor, Serena, and I packed our juice boxes of red wine, and piled in my car to go see The Help.  Great movie.  GREAT. 

I really want to go see it again, though, so that I can look the characters straight-on, instead of at the odd angle you get when you see a movie FROM THE FRONT ROW.  Ugh.  We really should have gotten there about 45 minutes before we did because the entire town of Cedar Park was there at the same time.  The movie followed along with the book really closely and it was so good!!

Sunday Taylor Garza

September's book selection is The Enneagram Made Easy by Renee Baron and Elizabeth Wagele, to be hosted by our very own gorgeous, and yet strangely-named friend, Sunday Taylor Garza!  I've already ready it and I know my Type.  I can't wait to visit with you ladies about it next month so we can see if we are truly compatible as friends!  Fingers crossed!

Enjoy reading!
~Kristan