Future Dates

AUGUST 20 Denison Country Club - Noon SEPTEMBER 17 Charlotte Gravely's home (Check your book bags before leaving...a cat may have crawled in! We have entertainment provided!_ OCTOBER 15 Cynthia Young's Bells home (We will carpool from Trinity Methodist Church.) NOVEMBER 19th Mary Lou James' home DECEMBER 17th Denison Country Club January 21,Kay will arrange for us to meet at QUE PASA the old White Pig WOW! Thanks to all for hosting us!

June 25 Book Chat and Plans for Future

Jodi Thomas, New York and USA Today bestselling author, will be in Denison Friday to speak to the Book Chatters and anyone else interested. The open meetin will be at Frontier Village Museum beginning at 12:30 p.m. She will speak about hew new book, "Welcome to Harmony. Come on out and meet Jody, buy a book if you want one and get it autographed.

December 2009 Chat Report

Book Chat Notes: Feel free to use our email account: bookchatter@gmail.com, password is chat2007 Check out the blog: bookchatter.blogspot.com, use email address to log on and password chat2007. On the blog, you can add reviews, suggestions, etc. You can also send us all messages on the email account. We are all enriched when each of us shares. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Thanks to Judy Odom for hosting a warm and wonderful Christmas Book Chat. And to Nancy for arranging our bookmark exchange. Here is the schedule for the next six months. Mark your calendar now. Meeting time and what to bring, if anything, will be announced in our e-notice. January 15, Denison Country Club February19, Charlotte Gravley March 19, Kelly Square April 16, Margie covered dish May 21, Frontier Village Chatters recommend these books: Quiet Moments With God by Lloyd John Ogilvie same kind of different as me. By Ron Hall and Denver Moore The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar also The Space Between Us The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown epic 800-page book by Edward Rutherford New York Those who Save Us by Jenna Blum The Christmas List by Richard Paul The Purpose of Christmas by Rick Warren Rememberance by Jude Devereaux Highest Duty: My Search For What Really Matters by Chesley Sullenberger Jodi Thomas books: Rewriting Monday, Twisted Creek, Texas Rain, Tall, Dark & Texan The Shack by William P. Young Weird Christmas by Joey Green Forever by Pete Hamil about Manhattan The Partner by John Grisham The Second Wives Club by Jane Moore Deception Point by Dan Brown Skipping Christmas by John Grisham Slow Waltz in River Bend by James Waller Mary Higgins Clark books Dean Koontz – The Face An Apple for Miss DeLong The Zoo Keeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman Edgar Sawtelle by David Woblewski the Blue Bottle Club by Penelope Stokes Before I Wake by Dee Henderson by Debbie MacComber by Donna Van Leer A Christmas Wish by Thomas Kincaid & Katherine Spencer The Faith Club An Old Fashioned Christmas 1964 by Paul Engle The Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving The Help The Last Song A Paper Bag Christmas Lee Main recommends the BOMC.2 book club. BOMC2 – Zooba Book Club Each month BOMC2 will send a different book off the list to a member and the price stays the same. The book is just $9.95 and the shipping is free. bomc2zooba.bookclubshop.com/book-clubs/bomc2/index.php?OVRAW=Bmoc2&OVKEY=bomc2&OVMTC book list $9.95 per month, no postage order online Some autors were not noted. Please Google or Bing the titles to find the author.

Suggested Reading Topics

January...after the busy holidays, some humor might be nice! Self help or inspirational books might be in store, too!

February...NOTHING beats a good ole love story for this month!

March...Why not read a biography or autobiography...perhaps from the bestseller list?

April...Try a book with a religious theme...The Red Tent, The Day Christ Died, some of the stories of the women in the Bible, a review of the Crusades (Now we were not very nice back then!) Yes, I know book titles are supposed to be underlined, but I am doing all I can to just type, yes, I used the antiquated term, so just deal with my old age, PLEASE!

May...perhaps a book about a famous mother?

June, July, and August...Summer lends itself to bestsellers on topics we love!

September...Back to school would be a great time to return or meet a classic...and a book of poetry.

October...MYSTERY!

November...History of an American time period might be good.

December...I just love all of the Christmas books!

Book Report

by Dee Peake Jun 24 (3 days ago) The large print book I brought to the June meeting was titled Portrait of An Unknown Woman. It was a fictional history of Sir Thomas More and his family. I never could realize what heretics feared, and knew they were burned for wanting a Bible in their language, but didn't understand why that was such a serious desire. The book manages to put this plot in perspective. Sir Thomas was a chancellor to King Henry VIII. He wanted to break from the Catholic Church, divorce his Queen and marry Anne Boleyn. Within Sir Thomas' own family there were love stories, skeletons in the closet, other secrets, as well as court intrigue. It seemed that Hans Holbein the famous artist was the catalyst to revealing the truth in the family. I felt the story plots were moving along at a good pace, and the connections were clearly defined. The computer helped me understand some terminology such as Plantagenet, but it was very interesting and I enjoyed it more than the Di Vinci Code. Dee Peake