Last Book Discussion

We all had a fun time at Kayleen's, discussing her book selection, 'Anne of Green Gables'.  We had a wonderful display of food.  The food was a variety of elaborately named dishes.  One common theme being the abundance of strawberries as ingredients or as the main star of the table.
As Anne Shirley would set a table for her first tea, Kayleen and Jennifer A. enchanted us with a beautiful table to please our eyes as we ate the food that pleased our taste buds.  The movie though not completely true to the story was fun but long, so us old gals didn't finish it and had to go home to bed.

Kris G. will host our next book, she has chosen 'The fellowship of the Rings'.  So, get reading it will take a little more effort to read than our last book.  Around 432 pages.  I guess then you have your summer reading.  Listening to the book is also acceptable.

Anne of Green Gables Book Discussion

Kayleen has this month's book selection, 'Anne of Green Gables' and would like to have her discussion of this book on May 4, 2012 at 6:30pm.  Because of Anne's love for naming things lovely names your dish you bring should be given a new lovely name.  A movie will be shown after the discussion.  Car pooling is encouraged, if you are interested let me know and we can arrange to meet at the church at 5:30 pm and leave by 5:45pm.  Since this book group is not a church function child care will not be provided so make sure your husband can watch or you have a babysitter or someone who will trade babysitting with you.

Easter Ad Campaign

Hey Gals,

I am sending this on for those of you who check this blog.  Get on Mormon.org and make your profile it will be an important weekend for spreading the gospel and sharing our feelings and beliefs about our Savior Jesus Christ.

Love Sharon

Easter Advertising Campaign - April 6-8, 2012

Dear Profile Owner,

The Church is launching a three-day advertising campaign this weekend in conjunction with Easter. The campaign will take place on YouTube and Facebook. The focus is to help those not of our faith understand that we believe in and follow Jesus Christ. The campaign features members of the Church sharing their beliefs about the Savior.

Short advertisements will be shown on YouTube on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (April 6-8). We anticipate the ads will be viewed a minimum of 15 million times. The advertising will link to a specially designed mormon.org page has been created where visitors can share why Jesus Christ is important to them, learn more about our beliefs in the Savior, download the Bible videos app, or order a free Bible (U.S. and Canada only).
Visitors to the mormon.org Facebook page will also be encouraged to share their feelings about Jesus Christ. It is hoped that thousands of Church members and nonmembers will express their testimonies of Jesus Christ during the Easter weekend.

Church members are invited to be involved with the campaign in several ways:

1. Tell family and friends about the campaign and encourage them to tell their family and friends. Encourage family and friends to participate on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday by visiting mormon.org/easter or facebook.com/mormon.

2. Encourage family and friends to look for the YouTube ads and visit mormon.org/easter.

3. On Friday, Saturday, or Sunday Church members are encouraged to visit mormon.org/easter and share their feelings about Jesus Christ.

Note that the mormon.org/easter page will not be "live" until early Friday morning.

We believe this will be a unique opportunity for Church members to engage in conversations with those not of our faith about the importance of Jesus Christ in the lives of God's children.

Media Division,
Missionary Department

 

Great Expectations on PBS

I thought you all may be interested in this link:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/greatexpectations/index.html?elq=0b9b85ae3c58466787a28bedbc4b6131&elqCampaignId=153

The next two Sunday evenings Masterpiece Theater will present Charles Dickens "Great Expectations". I know I will be taping it on our DVR for sure! We haven't read this book, but it's a classic for sure!

If you didn't get a chance to see "Little Dorritt" you can watch it online on the PBS website. It just finished up playing for the last few weeks, and is still available on the PBS website.

Kris

Johnny Tremain Book Discussion

Okay Ladies, we are going to meet at Kris Gifford's house tomorrow night at 6pm to discuss Brandi's book pick Johnny Tremain.  The food request for the evening will be Boston/colonial style food.  So be creative and lets have fun.  Here are some links to places you could find a recipe to make.  It isn't necessary but is fun to bring something new that you wouldn't normally eat.  Good luck and see you tomorrow


http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcolonial.html 
http://www.handsonhistoryinc.org/HOH-Page11.html
http://www.nscda.org/ma/cookbookartwork.php
http://www.foodbooks.com/recipes.htm

Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration

Here is a direct link to a great "music video" called: "Too Late To Apologize: A Declaration". It goes great with our story, "Johnny Tremaine", that shows us at some point, for the "colonists", it was "too late (for England) to apologize"! It's a fun video!

Johnny Tremain

Hello everyone! I was both excited and nervous when I was asked to make the next book selection for us "Busy Gals." I am not well read in the classic genre, and seem to be pretty simple minded when it comes to reading them. I take things at face value, so I wanted to try and find a book that didn't have hidden meaning or philosophy. However, the purpose of this book club is to "to seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom” D& C 88:118 so, I wanted to find a book that we could learn something meaningful from. I love historical fiction,  where I can learn history from the viewpoint of someone actually living it.  Instead of just facts, you read about their emotions, so the cause and effect become more real. Most of the classics that have historical aspects to them, are about wars. Some of them were reviewed to be pretty graphic with war scenes, and I am not a fan of blood and guts. I chose Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes  in hopes that since the main character is not a soldier in the war, and it is a children's novel, that the war scenes would not be very graphic. The book begins just prior to the revolutionary war and continues through the Boston Tea Party, the British blockade of the Port of Boston, the midnight ride of Paul Revere, and the Battles of Lexington and Concord. I read this book sometime during my school years and all I remember from it, is that something happens to his hand. I am excited to read it again with my adult perspective and see what I think about it now. I am curious what you guys think about it being a children's book, but one of the themes being about the philosophies behind starting a war. I guess we shall read it and find out just how much philosophy we get out of it.  There is a Disney movie made in 1957 that we can watch when we meet. I will be going out of town for the first couple weeks in March so I was thinking about  meeting sometime around the 23rd. How does that sound? I hope you enjoy my book pick! Brandi