We're oh so excited to see YOU tomorrow night for what's sure to be a book club to remember. Don't forget to bring your favorite appetizer or a new drink to try - wine is very encouraged for this one!
See your gorgeous selves tomorrow,
The GPBC
Hello sundrops!
We'd like to send three pairs of *snaps* to Miss Ally Browning and Katherine Cherry for being our fabulous hostesses for our June GPBC. We loved the new cocktail, reliving college and enjoying everything sweet and fruity. Big thanks, ladies for a wonderful evening!
This month's book might just be "e-reader only". That's right, we're putting on the sunnies to read through one of the hottest books out there (pun perhaps intended, lovelies!). Do save the date for this month's GPBC, July 25th, as we read "Fifty Shades of Grey".
Wine is encouraged, but do feel free to bring your favorite new appetizer from this month's issue of Southern Living or that new board you're following on Pinterest.
The gorgeous women of Beecher are hosting, so get ready for a book club none of us will likely ever forget.
Til we see your sun-kissed faces!
The Glover Park Book Club
*******DETAILS here, gorgeous!
DATE: Wednesday, July 25th
TIME: 7:30pm (mix & mingle) / 8:00pm (start)
HOUSE: 3816 Beecher Street NW, Washington, DC
HOSTESSES: Lauren Spivey, Paige Hensgens, Adrienne Keane, & Claire Burghoff
BOOK:
"Fifty Shades of Grey"
Description:
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana's quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.
Shocked yet thrilled by Grey's singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey's secrets and explores her own dark desires.
Buy me here! http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Shades-Grey-Book-Trilogy/dp/0345803485
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Looking for more summer reading? Put on those shades and grab the nearest towel. Get a head start on some of our next Glover Park Book Club books:
AUGUST 22:
BOOK: The Room
Description: To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.
Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.
Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating--a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.
Buy me here! http://www.amazon.com/Room-A-Novel-Emma-Donoghue/dp/0316098329/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341267930&sr=1-1&keywords=the+room
HOSTESSES: Heather Darazs & Jessica Golden
SEPTEMBER:
BOOK: Paris Wife
Description: A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.
Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group—the fabled "Lost Generation"—that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Though deeply in love, the Hemingways are ill prepared for the hard-drinking and fast-living life of Jazz Age Paris, which hardly values traditional notions of family and monogamy. Surrounded by beautiful women and competing egos, Ernest struggles to find the voice that will earn him a place in history, pouring all the richness and intensity of his life with Hadley and their circle of friends into the novel that will become The Sun Also Rises. Hadley, meanwhile, strives to hold on to her sense of self as the demands of life with Ernest grow costly and her roles as wife, friend, and muse become more challenging. Despite their extraordinary bond, they eventually find themselves facing the ultimate crisis of their marriage—a deception that will lead to the unraveling of everything they've fought so hard for.
A heartbreaking portrayal of love and torn loyalty, The Paris Wife is all the more poignant because we know that, in the end, Hemingway wrote that he would rather have died than fallen in love with anyone but Hadley.
Buy me here! http://www.amazon.com/The-Paris-Wife-A-Novel/dp/0345521307/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341268176&sr=1-1&keywords=paris+wife
HOSTESSES: Sarah Nichols & Stephanie Fontenot
OCTOBER:
BOOK: On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life (by Arianna Huffington)
Description: Observing that her own teenage daughters were beginning to experience some of the same fears that had once burdened her--how attractive am I? do people like me? do I dare speak up?--Arianna Huffington began to examine the ways in which fear affects all our lives. In stories drawn from her own experiences and from the lives of other women, she points toward the moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience that result from confronting and overcoming fear. And she outlines the steps anyone can take to conquer fear. Her book shows us how to become bold from the inside out--from feeling comfortable in our own skin to getting what we want in love and at work to changing the world.
Buy me here! http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Fearless-Love-Work-Life/dp/B001Q3M79C/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341268111&sr=1-1&keywords=on+becoming+fearless
HOSTESSES: TBD (interested? email Steph at: FontenotSL@gmail.com)
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