Christmas Luncheon and Book Exchange December 2020

"There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books."  ~ Iriving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense.

Stephanie hosted our Christmas Book Exhcange and Luncheon at her lovely home

 Monday, December 7th.

 

Suzanne and Brittany

 We enjoyed a lovely luncheon buffet.

Lillian, Ann, Heather

Stephanie, Brittany, Suzanne and Lillian - busy prepping the luncheon

Heather and Ann

Stephanie and Suzanne

We were able to Zoom Paula in for our Book Exchange.  She is currently in Finland and it was so fun to have her join us!

Stepahanie and Brittany

Brittany getting the Zoom just right

Sandy and Megan

Lots of new books to read and our 2021 list is complete with a few to spare!

Suzanne, Ann, Lillian and Heather - Book Exchange Time

Thank you, Stephanie for a lovely day, delicious food and lots of fun conversation!

Our Reading List for 2021

January - The Good Neighbor, The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King February - The Kiss of a Stranger by Sarah Eden March - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield April - A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult May – Mrs Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini June - A HIgher Call by Adam Makos July - The Ware I Finally Won by Kimberly Bradley August - The Tender Land by William Krueger September - Under a Wing by Reeve Lindbergh October - The King of Torts by John Grisham November - The Gratitude Diaries by Janice Kaplan December –The Christmas Promise by Ronald Taylor

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another,

 "What? You, too?  I thought I was the only one." ~ C.S. Lewis

2020 ~ What a Year!

What we read in 2020 

January - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 

February - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonsen 

March - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson 

April - Still Time by Jean Hegland 

May - Hidden Figures: The American Dream by Margot Lee Shetterly 

June - Under One Roof by Barry Martin 

July - Heart of the Rebellion by Sian Ann Bessey 

August - News of the World by Paulette Giles 

September - Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper 

October - The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict

Novmeber - The NIghtengale by Kristen Hannah 

December - The 19th Christmas by James Pattersen

We met together the first few months of 2020, then when COVID hit hard, we missed a few months.  We started meeting again during the summer when we could socially distance, "Zoomed" in those who did not feel comfortable meeting and still held our annual Christmas Book Exchange and Luncheon in December.