Our first official book club meeting and invitation.

Title/Author-Page It Forward Book Club Invitation

Who: Page It Forward Book Club

What: Our first monthly book club meeting

When: January 12th, 2009 from 6:30-8:30
(every second Monday of the month from 6:30-8:30)

Where: 18 R Wilford Court Pawcatuck CT 06379

Why: Go over rules, choose the books for the year, break
the ice, and enjoy meeting with new people.

Bring: Two book choices with short synopsis
The enclosed information card filled out

Note: If you can't make the first meeting, please read
The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks and come for open discussion
on February 9th, 2009

Contact: Christina Murphy 599-0214 or Denise Murphy 599-3586
Please let us know if you are interested so that we
may extend the invitation to others.

Website: www.pageitforward.blogspot.com for more information


Hi everyone,
We are so excited to be starting our very own book club. I have been wanting to join a book club for quite sometime. However, when I started researching for book clubs to join I noticed there were none in Southeastern Connecticut. It was then decided that we would just start our own. The Page It Forward Book Club.
Our first meeting is scheduled for January 12th, 2009 from 6:30-8:30. During this meeting we plan on discussing group rules, choice our books for the year, and break the ice.

Please bring the following: Two book choices, with a synopsis for each.
Your member form filled out.
Good conversation.
Any questions, suggestions, concerns you may have.


As suggested,we have already scheduled the first three months.



January 12th, 2009-First book club meeting.

February 9th, 2009 Book Discussion-The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks

Synopsis-
Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks's new novel believes he's found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he's never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny. The chain of events that leads to him possessing the photograph and finding the woman pictured in it is the stuff of love stories only a master such as Sparks can write.











March 9th, 2009-Book Discussion-Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult

Synopsis-
In this novel, Jodi Picoult interweaves five rich narrative voices to tell a story of love, loss, and self-discovery. The voices belong to a mother, her daughter, and three very different men.

Jane had always lived in somebody's shadow. Escaping a childhood of abuse by marrying oceanographer Oliver Jones, she finds herself taking second place to his increasingly successful career. However, when her daughter Rebecca is slighted, Jane's dramatic stand takes them all by surprise.

Leaving Oliver and his whale tapes behind in San Diego, Jane and Rebecca set out to drive across America to Uncle Joley and the sanctuary of the Massachusetts apple orchard where he works. Joley directs Jane across the United States in a series of letters waiting for her in designated post offices. Each letter gives concise directions to the next post office; each letter provides Jane with a chance to reflect on her forgotten past.

Oliver, used to tracking male humpback whales across vast oceans, now has the task of tracking his tantalizingly unpredictable wife across a continent. To do so he must learn to see the world-- and even himself-- through her eyes.

Songs of the Humpback Whale is a powerful and sensitive novel of family life that questions how songs are passed down from male speaker to male speaker, but also examines the female tradition of listening that women unconsciously pass on to their daughters.