I got home from a great book club tonight.  14 of the Bookies made it to The St Mathias Bar and Grill for wonderful food (home apparently of the $2.50 Tuesday burger!).  We had a couple newbies tonight – Sharon and Gabriele and that is always fun.

The review was on The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton, a book that I had read a couple months ago and loved.  The discussion?  Fantastic – everyone was so talkative and we discussed how these female characters of the 60’s were so different from the women of today.  Newbie Gabriele shared that in 1967 she was a stewardess and at that time you actually could not gain weight over 5 pounds or you were not allowed to work.  She also said once you turned the ripe old age of 32, you no longer could work for the airlines!  WOW!

Overall the book rated an average read almost across the board.  Most everyone thought while the book was good, it was much like other books on womens friendships they had read.  A couple in the group found it did not grab them and rated it low.  I came in as the high vote, having loved it when I read it and foudn the characters fascinating as well as the time period.

The Bookies read  for September is Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross (YAY!!!) I am very excited to see what the girls think of this one.  In September we are meeting at Laura’s home and we are having a bonfire potluck.  Anyone have a great recipe to share with a historical fiction theme to it?