My family and Justine’s family both attend church at this great new place in Chandler called One Church. We are so so so blessed by this group daily and discovered a lot of new friends, a lot of whom like to read like us! So we decided that all this time of being bookworms and not being part of a book club was just downright horrible and so we got a big group together to read Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter.
My review on the book will come later but we had such a great time. After a little bit of a mix-up on restaurants (the first place we tried to go to was this trendy and cute wine bar but it was a Friday night and it was BUMPIN’, literally. There was a DJ that made it so loud we couldn’t even hear each other on the patio!) we found a great patio and enjoyed the beautiful early-autumn Arizona air! Justine and I split a bottle of wine and had a wonderful night with the girls.
My beautiful book next to my empty glass of wine (oops!)
The turn out was so awesome, I always have that inner fear that some social event I attempt to organize is going to flop and fail so I’m so thankful for these ladies:
Hannah, Jen, Justine, Me, Bekah, and Rebekah (Leah missed the picture when she had to leave a little early, sorry Leah!)
We had delicious food and even better discussion. We talked about everything from the cover (which I thought was gorgeous but actually turned a few people off) to the characters, to the story development, to the overall themes and messages of the novel.
It was a great night and we already chose the next book for our next meeting! If you are in the Phoenix area and would like to join us, Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell is our next pick. Thank you to everyone who came and read the book, I had the most wonderful time! It was my first book club but will certainly not be my last!
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