Butler Women of Wisdom Book Club

Hi Everyone, Hope everyone enjoyed the much needed Thanksgiving break. It has been a crazy November with Makenzie home from Italy for my niece Allene’s wedding and then the multitude of wedding festivities. Now I need to concentrate on updating all of you on our November meeting and the next book club, our yearly Christmas dinner. Only three of us attended the meeting on Saturday, November 13 - Becky, Ginnie, and me. It was a gorgeous blue sky Saturday, perfect for enjoying the outdoors and the remaining fall leaves. In response to our book Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen, we spent an extremely enjoyable afternoon in the Mennonite community of Harmony. There we browsed through the town’s quaint shops during their annual German Christmas Market. In every store we oohed and awed over the most unique treasures – art, antiques, German pastries, colonial crafts, and toys. For our book club discussion, we dined on the patio of the local “haunted” Harmony Inn, a rare ...

Hi Everyone, I know this is last minute, but book club will convene Saturday, November 13. After reading the book Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen, we will visit the Mennonite community of Harmony, PA. Saturday is their annual Christmas Market. To start, we will park at the Butler' Kohls parking lot at 10:45 A.M. then carpole to Harmony. While there we will have lunch and discuss the book and our upcoming Christmas book club. If you haven't read Mennonite in a Little Black Dress , treat yourself to a good time. It is a hilarious as well as an easy read. My comments on the Blue Notebook are brief as I only finished reading it in response to duress. Although mildly disturbing and definitely erotic, the story of Batuk has an innonence that survives the ugliness. Levine's style of writing is fluent and colorful. It sails. Cheryl and Ginnie identified a quote from their reading that I believe captures the essence or theme of the book, "You can never ...