Butler Women of Wisdom Book Club

Volume 1, Issue 2 - April 2018 BUTLER WOMEN OF WISDOM QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER Greetings, Women of Wisdom! Happy Mother’s Day!  Hope you all enjoyed a May day of showers with flowers or some other sweet indulgence. As the year picked up its momentum, I quickly found myself way past my own quarterly deadline for this newsletter. Luckily, I have no editors hounding me for words only you my readers who have forgotten that the book club archivist still pens the minutes of our meetings. Looking back, this newsletter includes summaries of the Butler Women of Wisdom’s discussions from books we have read from January 2018 to April 2018. The books include Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste NG, Molokai by Alan Brennert, and The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi by Kathie Lee Gifford. Starting the year with Lori’s choice, our January’s read Where’d You Go Bernadette provided us with comic relief from the “blah” days of...

Volume 1, Issue 1 - January 2018 BUTLER WOMEN OF WISDOM QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER This newsletter is the first of my new quarterly issues. Through it, I hope to add a fresh perspective to our book club in order to elevate the energy we bring to our monthly meetings. My pep talk: Let’s start the new year off as winners! With fearless questions and incites in response to our reading, we can create change in our minds and hearts! We may be growing older, girls, but we are growing wiser! If we combine the forces of our sagacity, our reading reflections have the capability to be practically omnipotent in nature! Repeat after me, “I can, I will, read our books!”                      The Spirits of the Last Six Months of Book Clubs Past Bah, humbug, to me for not being vigilant in book club updates. “Books are my business, the common welfare of the book club is my business; reading, analyzing, quoting, and discussing boo...

Easy Company takes the flag up Mt. Suribachi; they had been fighting for 4 days and had already suffered 40% casualties. Hi Everyone, Our September book club convened on Wednesday, September 28, at Ginnie’s house in Chicora. Members in attendance in addition to Ginnie were Cheryl, Jody, Lori, Sharon, and me. Our selection, Flags of Our Fathers; Heroes of Iwo Jima by James Bradley, provided a biographical account of the 6 flag raisers immortalized by their famous photo, raising the American flag on Iwo Jima. Clearly, a heartfelt work of love in memory of his father, Bradley’s book will affect every reader who peruses its pages. For the young, it will spark patriotism; for the middle-aged, it will remind them of their heritage; and for the old, it will take them home. My son-in-law, a US Naval Officer, read Bradley’s book, and I am certain its contents have inspired in him an even stronger passion for the service he is now giving to our country. My mother read it and through it...

Dear Women of Wisdom, Yes, we are meeting at 6:30 PM. at Panera. The book we read for February was Good Things I Wish You by A. Manette Ansay. Forgive the delayed email, Makenzie, Vince, and Timmy are coming home this week and I have been trying to prepare for them as well as study for my Principal's test, work on my Yoga Teacher Training, and keep up with my lesson plans at school. Oh, and I forgot to add how many hours I wasted researching for a good price on airline tickets to Italy which by the way I never found a good deal. Anyway, I kept meaning to get around to writing, but it never happened. This month, I want to get everyone hooked into my phone for a group text message in case this happens again. I hope you can all make it. Since, to no surprise, I never finished January's book Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly, I appointed Becky group leader for the meeting. Others in attendance were Cheryl, Ginnie, Jody, Mary Beth, and, of course, me. We all h...