Books to read.........

The spell check on my blog has quit working. I'm going nuts, because I depend on it all of the time. Can anybody tell me how to get it to work again?




Well these pictures loaded backwards, I suppose I loaded them backwards, but I can work with it:-) Nathan hadn't seen Issy in a very long time. He is pretty crazy about that baby.

Our ward is trying to do things to help us all get to know each other. So the Releif Society has some different groups like a cooking group, a game night and a book group. Well I got in the book group and had the first meeting. The intimidating part was picking a book for all the women to read. I was at a sale at Schoolastic Books and found this little diary I bought a bunch of them and used that for our first meeting. It was about a 9 year old girl living in Philadelphia in 1776. It was alright, but there are much better books out there. A lady in my ward gave me a list of good books, she was in a book club too. Actually, I wish we would have done it in AZ. I never knew what books were good, or what I should read. I read A LOT of just plain books, when I could have been reading great books. I have been impressed with the women in Utah, because almost everybody I have met has been in some sort of book group.

Also this Shelfarie thing has been great. You can look up books and find out what regular people think about them. You can look at other poeples shelves and see their favorites. So I now have a a bunch of great titles to choose from. So I stopped by a DI one day and found a few books. Then I started looking through the Shelfarie sight and went to another DI and got more books. Then I told Erin and she wanted to go look to so we went together yesterday. Most of the books are $1-$4, they used to be a little cheaper but some of the DI's have raised their prices. There is a code on the books with a date. I bought so many books the picture is of just a few. I think I have cleaned the DI's out because I noticed that most of the books I bought had been on their shelves since '03. Almost 5 years, they had been waiting for somebody to come and take them home. So if anybody wants to borrow a book, I have plenty to choose from!:-)

This is Issy at dinner last night, she had a long day of shopping at the DI's with mom and grandma. She did get her share of attention, everybody commented on her very blue eyes.

For the book group I thought it would be fun to look up what kind of food they ate in that time and try to have some for refreshments. I only found recipes, so I made a few. The picture of the soup was a suprising soup I made. It was "cream of peanut", it was actually pretty tastey. Our book next month is "The Hiding Place." This is so good for me, because if you remember, I went to that home when Mike and I went to Holland last fall. So I'm finally being motivated to read the book.