Book Club
- March 22 · 8:00 PM
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The book is Murder With Peacocks, by Donna Andrews
From Kirkus Reviews
Lucky Meg Langslow. Hardly any decorative blacksmiths get invited to be maid of honor to three brides in three weeks. As Meg knocks herself out to satisfy the whims of her business partner Eileen Donleavy (who wants all 600 guests in Renaissance a ttire), her brother Rob's fianc Samantha Brewster (who thinks some peacocks might be one of those little touches that would make her wedding special), and her mother Margaret Langslow (who, long divorced from Meg's cheerfully uncomplaining father, a retir ed physician whose hobby is poisonous plants, now plans to marry a deeply boring widower), newcomer Andrews shows why everybody depends on Meg: she's the only family member who's not out of her mind. Businesslike Meg can enlist her gossipy mother to save the professional reputation of the ailing dressmaker's handsome son, rescue Samantha's rented peafowl from the kitten she's brought home from the tippling calligrapher's, fend off the advances of a pair of loathsome suitors, and deal betweentimes with the odd murder or two (the widower's meddlesome sister-in-law, a great choice for starters), because she's channeled the Langslow tendency to mania into her deadpan prose, whose unflappable cadences (``The shower was going fine until Samantha vomited into the onion dip'') and cutaways from farcical tableaux suggest half Jane Austen, half battery acid. The resulting Three Weddings and Three Funerals, with all due respect to the overshadowed killer, will leave you helpless with heartless laughter, especially when only one of the nuptials goes even remotely as planned. The perfect wedding gift for those friends and relatives you wish would elope, or take vows of chastity. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Amanda Green Mitchell
Thanks you guys. I really would like to come tonight, but was at a community meeting last night and may need to stay in tonight. I want to come next time, though! :)
April 25
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Amanda Green Mitchell
Well, I haven't read this book, will you all be reading it next week too?
April 24
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Cari M.
Amanda, feel free to join us to hang out and meet everyone. Usually half the the people in attendance haven't read the book anyway!
April 24
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Laura D.
Welcome Amanda - Cari is right, please feel free to come even if you don't read the book. We do talk about the book, but also just hang out and talk about lots of other topics as well.
April 24
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Nancy Oldenburg
I got the book from the library. It's held together with a rubber band. LOL. I will decide on the dinner location by the weekend; I'm sorry for being slow!
March 4
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Amanda Green Mitchell
Hi everyone, I'm new to the group. I'm looking forward to reading the books you've read and to meeting you all! Hope I can come to a meeting soon. If not this weekend, then hopefully next time!
April 24
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Cari M.
Olga, Laura is being extra generous :) If you can contribute $5 per person, it would be greatly appreciated. I know you are somewhat "new" to the group, so I don't want to scare you away! lol
March 20
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Cari M.
Hey, Book Club Buddies - Hate to ask, but it's been six months already, and the $72 Meetup fee has been charged to my credit card again. If you'd care to chip in for it, I'd greatly appreciate your generosity!
March 19
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Laura D.
There is no specific share - some contribute, some don't. Those that do, determine their own contribution. I do not know what anyone else does, but I give Cari $10 for myself and I know that several of us make sure Cari knows that if she is ever short, we are happy to contribute more.
March 20
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Nancy Oldenburg
I have to get started reading the book. Just finished getting stuff ready for taxes, which is never fun; however, I'm also sick, so it's even worse. See everryone soon.
March 14
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Cheryl T.
Aww, that's too bad, Heather. I think you might like this book. We'll miss you, but hope to see you next time!
March 15
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Laura D.
Finished it last night and then started Michael Crighton's Micro. I order a few more of her books also to read later.
March 14
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Cari M.
I'm enjoying it, too! Wish I had more time to read it. I'm concerned about getting finished!
March 14
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Cheryl T.
Glad to hear that you are enjoying it, Laura! It has won handfuls of awards, which seems to me to be a good sign.
March 13
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Cari M.
I also have the book, but haven't started it yet. I actually go a copy that has the second one of the series included after the first, in case I liked it!
March 4
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Laura D.
Got the book in today from paperbackswap. I'm half way through the one I'm reading now so will get started reading this one next.
March 4
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Cari M.
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