Category Archives: Books

My Book Club Ladies

We met this evening to share our book suggestions for the coming year.  Here’s how we’re all looking these days! One fun thing we do every year for our April Book Selection Dinner Party is to submit a short history … Continue reading

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My new hip is one week old

This first week has been a little rough, but there is no pain when I don’t move!  I’ve bound quilts and appliqued pieces.  I’ve read a few books and we started watching the TV series, Call The Midwife.  I’ve enjoyed … Continue reading

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German forests: my favorite place

Perhaps my favorite places in Germany are the woods and the forests.  Most of the time we drive through them, but on occasion, we walk along paths on our way to a castle, or other remote historical site.  33% of … Continue reading

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Annual Book Club Retreat 2023, Sundance

When we learned we’d be leaving on August 21st, I was really happy that I wouldn’t miss our annual book club retreat at our Sundance cabin.  When we bought this cabin about 25 years ago, one of my thoughts after … Continue reading

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The Quiltmaker’s Gift and The Quilt Maker’s Journey

This summer we have read dozens and dozens of books.  I am a reading GrAnn and there are piles of books in our home.  I want to report on 2 of our very favorites this summer, books we’ve read and … Continue reading

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A Book Club Gathering to Propose Next Year’s Reading List

This is a group of Excellent Women.  (That’s what we call ourselves.)  My book club.  My dear friends of dozens of years.  I took my turn this last year as the President and passed that job on to the next … Continue reading

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Erudite Book Club Reading List 1987 to Present

Here is our Erudite Book Club Reading List.  Each year each member can suggest up to 5 books.  They have 1 minute per book to sell the book selection committee on their recommendations.  We do this at an evening dinner … Continue reading

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Sundance Book Club Retreat 2019

These are some of my dearest friends.  We’ve been in a book club together since 1987, the year I returned from living in Nigeria.  Every year at the end of summer we have a very fun book club retreat at … Continue reading

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A Bit of Reading at Ashley Lake, Montana

Our daughter married Graham Johnson while we were in Washington.  This last week his family invited us to their cabin home at Ashley Lake, Montana.  I took a book I’ve been waiting to read these last 3 years.  It went … Continue reading

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