Let's have another holiday book club & potluck!
Location:
One of our members is going to host this at her neighborhood's clubhouse. The neighborhood is Stonewater Creek in Millsboro.
RSVP Information:
Please make sure you update your RSVP immediately if you can't attend. Since we will be off the beach, we have to limit the guest count. I want to make sure everyone who actually wants to be there has a spot. Please keep in mind that even if you're on the waitlist, a spot almost always opens up!
Holiday Book Exchange:
We are going to have another holiday book exchange! You do not have to participate, but it was a ton of fun last year! For anyone interested, please bring a wrapped book. It can be new or used. It can be a favorite or something you have never read - it's a free for all. It just needs to be wrapped. We will have a game to exchange the books!
Potluck:
No theme - mystery potluck! Bring whatever dish or drink you'd like! No need to tell us. You do not need to bring plates, cups, napkins, etc. Just bring whatever potluck item you choose and serving utensils for that if needed! Since we are doing the treat exchange this year, we encourage savory dishes (but we love our sweets, so still bring anything you want).
Book:
Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand
About:
In bestseller Elin Hilderbrand's first Christmas novel, a family gathers on Nantucket for a holiday filled with surprises. Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four, all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray. Patrick, the eldest, is a hedge fund manager with a guilty conscience. Kevin, a bartender, is secretly sleeping with a French housekeeper named Isabelle. Ava, a school teacher, is finally dating the perfect guy but can't get him to commit. And Bart, the youngest and only child of Kelley's second marriage to Mitzi, has recently shocked everyone by joining the Marines. As Christmas approaches, Kelley is looking forward to getting the family together for some quality time at the inn. But when he walks in on Mitzi kissing Santa Claus (or the guy who's playing Santa at the inn's annual party), utter chaos descends. With the three older children each reeling in their own dramas and Bart unreachable in Afghanistan, it might be up to Kelley's ex-wife, nightly news anchor Margaret Quinn, to save Christmas at the Winter Street Inn. Before the mulled cider is gone, the delightfully dysfunctional Quinn family will survive a love triangle, an unplanned pregnancy, a federal crime, a small house fire, many shots of whiskey, and endless rounds of Christmas caroling, in this heart-warming novel about coming home for the holidays.
