It's a NEW year!

We have now been doing our book club for over a year!

I, for one, am so thankful for this Book Club and feel enriched and surprised by all that has come out of it this last year.  I've learned that our 9 year old daughters are very insightful and quite observant.  They draw our attention to pieces of the book we may have skimmed over.

To kick off our new year, we decided to have a "choice" year.  Each mother daughter team brought about 5 books to the table (literally... to the coffee table!) and voted on which books we wanted for 2017.  How did we vote?  Well, first of all, we took turns reading the book jackets aloud, then the 3 girls met and decided there was one book they wanted to toss out of the voting process-- none of them wanted to read it.  Then, we were each given 6 smooth stones we could place on the books we wanted.  You could put all 6 stones on one book if you wanted to be sure it made the list.  Most of us didn't use more than 1-2 stones on each book, though.


And the 2017 picks are... (in order of most stones to least stones)...


And for documentation purposes... here is everything we read from the time we started til now:

December 2015	Hannah Divided
January 2016	Hairspray
FEBRUARY	The Penderwicks
MARCH	Secret Language of Girls
APRIL	Turtle in Paradise
MAY	Story of Ferdinand
JUNE	My Life with the Chimpanzees
JULY	Tua and the Elephant
AUGUST	BREAK
SEPTEMBER	Esperanza Rising
OCTOBER	Vanished
NOVEMBER	The Night Gardener
DECEMBER	Alanna The First Adventure
January 2017	Just As Long As We’re Together