Book: Deluxe: How Luxury Lost It’s Luster by Dana Thomas When: March 30, 2012 @ 7pm Where: Beth’s House (See Pingg Invite) Synopsis: Newsweek reporter Thomas skillfully narrates European fashion houses’ evolution from exclusive ateliers to marketing juggernauts. Telling the story through characters like the French mogul Bernard Arnault, she details how the…
March 2012: Deluxe
Book: Deluxe – How Luxury Lost it’s Luster by Dana Thomas When: March 30, 2012 @ 7pm Where: Beth’s House (See Pingg Invite) Synopsis: Thomas has been the fashion writer for Newsweek in Paris for 12 years and writes about style for the New York Times Magazine and other well-known publications.…
February 2012: Divergent
Book: Divergent by Veronica Roth When: February 24, 2012 @ 7pm Where: Jill’s House (See Pingg Invite) Synopsis: In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the…
December 2011/January 2012
Book: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson When: January 27, 2012 @ 7pm Where: Amanda’s House (See Pingg Invite) Synopsis: Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling…
November 2011: The Great Gatsby
Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald When: November 18, 2011 @ 7pm Where: Beth’s House (See Pingg Invite) Synopsis: In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write “something new–something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned.” That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple…
October 2011: Midwives
Book: Midwives by Chris Bohjalian When: October 28, 2011 @ 7pm Where: Rachel’s Place Synopsis: Amazon.com Review Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1998: On a violent, stormy winter night, a home birth goes disastrously wrong. The phone lines are down, the roads slick with ice. The midwife, unable to get…
September 2011: Wuthering Heights
Book: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte When: September 30th, 2011 @ 7pm Where: Shelley’s Apartment (See Pingg invite) Synopsis: Bronte weaves a tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them. Now considered…
August 2011 :: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels
Book: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman) When: August 26th, 2011 @ 7pm Where: Jill’s House (See Pingg invite) From BookList: Popular blogger and cookbook author Drummond shares the story of her courtship and marriage to her husband, whom she refers to as Marlboro…
July 2011 :: The Weird Sisters
Book: The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown When: July 29, 2011 @ 7pm Where: Tracy’s House (See Pingg invite) From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. You don’t have to have a sister or be a fan of the Bard to love Brown’s bright, literate debut, but it wouldn’t hurt. Sisters Rose…
June 2011: A Homemade Life
Book: A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg When: June 24, 2011 @ 7pm Where: Jenn’s House (See Pingg invite) From Publishers Weekly When Molly Wizenberg’s father died of cancer, everyone told her to go easy on herself, to hold off on making any major decisions for a while. But when…