We have had an amazing year thus far.
Our January meeting began with author Robert LeLeux stopping in on his way to New Orleans. To hear him read from his new book The Living End was well...the living end! If you have a family member with Alzheimer's, Robert's book will lift you up and show you some of the blessings that are hiding. And he brought his beautiful Mom with him! Thank you for stopping in on such a rainy night.
February brought the Homecoming of Samuel Lake with a telephone visit with author Jenny Wingfield. What a delight as we shared with how the story of Samuel Lake touched her and each of us.
In March, Meg Waite Clayton author of The Four Ms Bardwells visited with us via SKYPE just before leaving on her European tour. We were hoping to win her contest for a vacation to California, but alas none of the SWLA PQ's will be going.
Now it's April and we are reading State of Wonder by Ann Patchett who has recently opened an independent book store in Nashville because there wasn't one. Authors do amazing things!
Looking forward to seeing you next week at our April meeting!
Southwest Louisiana Pulpwood Queens Book Club
Friday, April 20, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Diamond Tiara Award!
Been waiting for pics but haven't gotten them yet so guess I'll just have to write 1000 words! That's hard for me to do so I'll just copy Kathy Patrick's announcement for our Southwest Louisiana Pulpwood Queens Book Club to have been honored with her Diamond Tiara Award! Queens you are fabulous!!!!
January 12, 2012
Jefferson, Texas - As the founder of the now 525 chapters of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club, making us the largest "meeting and discussing" book club in the world I would officially like to announce our award winners for this past 2011 year:
2011 Pulpwood Queens Books of the Year!
Pulpwood Queen Book of the Year - "Georgia Bottoms" by Mark Childress
Pulpwood Queen Bonus Book of the Year - "as the sycamore grows" by Jennie Helderman
Pulpwood Queen Teen to Adult Crossover Book of the Year - "Scout, Atticus, and Boo" by Mary McDough Murphy
Pulpwood Queen Children's Book of the Year - "Man in the Moon" by William Joyce
Other presentations and awards are:
The Doug Marlette Award - Teri Tanner, owner of A Real Bookstore in Fairview, Dallas, Texas. This award is giving in loving memory of Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist, author, and Pulpwood Queen favorite, the late, great Doug Marlette. Past recipients include Marly Rusoff, Mary Gay Shipley, and Sonny Brewer.
The Kat Award to Phil Latham, Editor/Publisher of The Marshall News Messenger. This award is given to someone in the media who goes beyond the call on promoting literacy.
The Diamond Tiara Award goes to:
Queen Mary Grove of The Pulpwood Queens of Anchorage, Alaska who has started five chapters of the Pulpwood Queens including one in a women's prison, The Pulpwood Queens of Hiland Meadows and now the NEW The Paroled Pulpwood Queens of ALASKA!
Queen Alyse Urice of The Golden Pulpwood Queens of Golden, Colorado for personally gathering books through the Literacy & Hope Project and distributed $16,700 books last year to homeless shelters, libraries, and schools and included creating an elementary school library too. Queen Alyse is also starting in February a new book club for homeless women.
Queen Kay Huck of The Pulpwood Queens of Southwest Louisiana for providing books and textbooks for an entire school since their chapter started in Nicaragua and even make mission trips there to provide the books.
This is a NEW award this year to recognize a Head Queen who runs a Pulpwood Queen chapter/chapters who set the standard for providing excellence and raising the bar in promoting literacy and thus being the "diamonds" in our Pulpwood Queen tiaras which like our motto, "Tiaras are mandatory and reading good books is the RULE"!
We are not your mama's book club. We are a book club that is not only having BIG TIME FUN while we are reading but we are making a BIG TIME DIFFERENCE!
The sole purpose of the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs is to promote authors, books, reading, literacy, reading and help undiscovered authors get discovered in a really big way! Also The Pulpwood Queens have adopted The Dolly Parton Imagination Library atwww.imaginationlibrary.com as their charity of choice and raised over $6,000 last year for this project. Each year at Girlfriend Weekend, all 50 authors who attend donate a personal item that ties in with their book to autograph and silent auction. This year will be doing so again and if that is not enough another press release as follows:
PRESS RELEASE
$20,000 Granted to Northeast Texas Schools to Promote Literacy
$20,000 Granted to Northeast Texas Schools to Promote Literacy
Kathy Patrick, founder of the Pulpwood Queen Book Club, and Pulitzer Prize finalist author John Berendt will present checks to librarians from Jefferson and Linden-Kildare school districts during an awards ceremony at the 12th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend Author Extravaganza in Jefferson, Texas. The checks being presented are from the Burt and Nancy Marans Charitable Fund with East Texas Communities Foundation. Totaling $20,000, the grants will be distributed to six Northeast Texas school districts allowing these area schools to purchase over 1,300 books for school libraries.
With ongoing budget cuts to school libraries, Patrick’s local book club chapter has stepped forward by working with donors to fund book purchases for school libraries. An advocate for literacy, Mr. Marans hailed literacy and education as keys to individual success and advancement in life. Prior to his death, he frequently participated in volunteer reading programs at elementary schools.
Kathy Patrick’s Pulpwood Queen Book Club is based in Jefferson, Texas, and is the nation’s largest book club with 525 chapters nationwide and in 15 countries. The Pulpwood Queens’ primary focus is promoting literacy.
East Texas Communities Foundation is a nonprofit corporation serving 32 counties in East Texas. In 2010, the Foundation distributed a record $4.89 million in grants and manages over $46 million in 173 unique charitable funds which support non-profit organizations and student scholarships.
Our congratulations to all the winners and for more information you may contact Kathy L. Patrick at 903-445-2353 or emailkathy@beautyandthebook.com.
Kathy L. Patrick
Author of "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life", Grand Central Publishing
Founder of the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs
Beauty and the Book
608 North Polk Street
Jefferson, Texas 75657
The Greatest Book Show on Earth - Girlfriend Weekend 2012
Well Kathy Patrick did it again. The greatest circus of authors and readers in the small town of Jefferson, TX. Over 50 authors were in the ring with Lion Tamer Queen Kathy www.BeautyandtheBook.com. She had us all jumping through hoops from Clown Alley where the authors clowned around while serving a fabulous BBQ dinner from the local establishment, Riverport BBQ, which tragically burned to the ground the following evening. (No one was injured and they will rebuild.) We were awakened by sirens in the middle of night as the fire was only two blocks from The Excelsior Hotel where we were staying. This historic hotel has been operating continuously since 1850 and has house President Grant and Lady Bird Johnson. This year they had a fabulous breakfast for us each morning before we entered the circus tent.
Entering the Circus Tent (Jefferson Tourist Center) was like old home week as we laughed and shared with our favorite authors Shellie Tomlinson, River Jordan, Kathryn Casey, Mary Lee Malcolm, Nicole Seitz, Robert LeLeux, Judy Christie Deeanne Gist Marcia Fine and met many new ones who will joining the list like Jenny Wingfield, Michael Morris, Wade Rouse, Man Martin, Bill Torgerson, Robert Hicks, Tina Sloan. As well as PQ's from other areas Tijuana Neal, Marsha Toy Engstrom, Lisa Hodgson, Jonni Webb, Pam Carter, Karen Pellerin, Mary Yetta Alexander, the Conway PQ's....
Wow...a little bit of over load and so hard to recall without pictures...and lots of pictures there are floating all over FB! Here are a few of our favorites..
One thing we did hear, please post book reviews, just a simple I liked/disliked this book, helps the authors tremendously.
Am posting pictures of your queens dressed to the nines..in our Pink Prom Attire and Circus Best. Queens Beverly Martin, Rose Gray, Beverly Hill and Candy Case, joined me in this fun filled gathering.
Get ready for next year Jan 17-20, 2013 when the theme will be The Gilded Age..Looking forward to some outstanding books and good hearted fun.
Entering the Circus Tent (Jefferson Tourist Center) was like old home week as we laughed and shared with our favorite authors Shellie Tomlinson, River Jordan, Kathryn Casey, Mary Lee Malcolm, Nicole Seitz, Robert LeLeux, Judy Christie Deeanne Gist Marcia Fine and met many new ones who will joining the list like Jenny Wingfield, Michael Morris, Wade Rouse, Man Martin, Bill Torgerson, Robert Hicks, Tina Sloan. As well as PQ's from other areas Tijuana Neal, Marsha Toy Engstrom, Lisa Hodgson, Jonni Webb, Pam Carter, Karen Pellerin, Mary Yetta Alexander, the Conway PQ's....
Our first night - at the Author Dinner
We bring our Alligator Mascot with us
Deeanne Gist shows us how a proper Victorian lady dresses from the bottom
to the top....Wonderful!
Dinner with new and old author friends Bill Torgerson, Nicole Seitz, Shellie Tomlinson and Robert Hicks
Beautiful authors Meg Clayton, Judy Christie Lisa Wingate and
Aren't we a circus to die for! LOL
Pink Prom Night with Kathryn Casey
Dinner with Mary Lee Malcolm and friends
One thing we did hear, please post book reviews, just a simple I liked/disliked this book, helps the authors tremendously.
One of the many wonderful panels of authors: Nichole Seitz, Michael Morris, River Jordan, Robert LeLeux and Kathy Patrick
Bev Martin, Kay Huck, Kathy Patrick and Shellie Tomlinson
Am posting pictures of your queens dressed to the nines..in our Pink Prom Attire and Circus Best. Queens Beverly Martin, Rose Gray, Beverly Hill and Candy Case, joined me in this fun filled gathering.
Wouldn't you love to go to Pink Prom Night with these gals?
Another fabulous panel with Kathryn Casey, Marilyn Gilhuly, Jan Reid, Reavis Wortham, Robert LeLeux and Kathy Patrick
Get ready for next year Jan 17-20, 2013 when the theme will be The Gilded Age..Looking forward to some outstanding books and good hearted fun.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Coffins of Little Hope...for Halloween?
When The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert was selected for our October PQ meeting, I think we all expected a spooky Halloween tale. Instead we were surprised by a tale that spans decades of an obituary writer for a small town newspaper. An engrossing story that shows we never leave the past behind, it always comes with us to resolution.
And we were fortunate to have the author do a video chat and share how the story took on a life of its own as he took this idea of small town newspaper which also quietly prints bestseller to make ends meet.
And we were also treated to "coffins" labeled Miserre and Desirree by Queen Tracey and specialty cupcakes! Thank you Queen Tracey.
don't you love the picture of author Timothy Schaffert on the TV screen with the small inset of the SWLA PQ's in the corner? Video Chats with the author add so much to our discussion. Many thanks to Timothy and all the authors who have shared with us!
And we were fortunate to have the author do a video chat and share how the story took on a life of its own as he took this idea of small town newspaper which also quietly prints bestseller to make ends meet.
And we were also treated to "coffins" labeled Miserre and Desirree by Queen Tracey and specialty cupcakes! Thank you Queen Tracey.
Secret Fans for our PQ's
Sorry to be late in posting, just lots going on lately...like everyone else!
Our September meeting was to discuss the book Snow Flower and The Secret Fan by Lisa See . A wonderful book about an old Chinese custom involving selection of best friends call "The Sames" and how they used fans to write to each other. They wrote about every day life which included the custom of foot binding. Which was very upsetting to our present day thinking.To emphasize the importance of communication between friends, we each made our own secret fans with words of wisdom written upon them to our royal sisters.
We are also honored to have Louisiana author Christa Allan visit and discuss her book The Edge of Grace, although not a memoir as such, there were lots of personal events portrayed in the book and she graciously shared her story behind the story she had written.
Wonderful meeting! Love our Royal Sisters!
Our September meeting was to discuss the book Snow Flower and The Secret Fan by Lisa See . A wonderful book about an old Chinese custom involving selection of best friends call "The Sames" and how they used fans to write to each other. They wrote about every day life which included the custom of foot binding. Which was very upsetting to our present day thinking.To emphasize the importance of communication between friends, we each made our own secret fans with words of wisdom written upon them to our royal sisters.
We are also honored to have Louisiana author Christa Allan visit and discuss her book The Edge of Grace, although not a memoir as such, there were lots of personal events portrayed in the book and she graciously shared her story behind the story she had written.
Wonderful meeting! Love our Royal Sisters!
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Christa Allan visits PQ's Sept Meeting
Do you have a Secret Fan? The Sames? Well we made our own secret fans for our book club members who attended the September meeting as we discussed Lisa See's book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Wonderful discussion on the difference in our cultures. Of course, foot-binding was hard to accept and Queen Val found pictures on the internet and shared with us. To us, it was amazing that such a practice every came into being!
However, the value of true friendship and the sharing of that friendship was strong in the book and in our lives our friendships are valued.
Author Christa Allan http://christaallan.com/ was in town from Abita Springs, LA and stopped in for a wonderful visit and talked about her latest book The Edge of Grace. The story is about a sister and brother, their relationship and how coming out of the closet affects that relationship. A story moral values and re-assessing what that means. Although not a memoir, much of the storyline is based on Christa personal experiences. At our PQ meeting, Christa shared many of her personal experiences that influenced this book.
Our next meeting will be October 26. The book is The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert.
However, the value of true friendship and the sharing of that friendship was strong in the book and in our lives our friendships are valued.
Author Christa Allan http://christaallan.com/ was in town from Abita Springs, LA and stopped in for a wonderful visit and talked about her latest book The Edge of Grace. The story is about a sister and brother, their relationship and how coming out of the closet affects that relationship. A story moral values and re-assessing what that means. Although not a memoir, much of the storyline is based on Christa personal experiences. At our PQ meeting, Christa shared many of her personal experiences that influenced this book.
Our next meeting will be October 26. The book is The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Kathryn Casey - Author Visit
We had a great visit with one of our favorite authors this evening. Kathryn Casey traveled across the Sabine River to meet with us and what wonderful stories she shared. Of course, her main topic was her latest Sarah Armstrong mystery, The Killing Storm. Crafted around a threatening hurricane in Houston, time is running out to find the abducted child Joey. Racing against the wind, Sarah plunges into life threatening waters.
Kathryn totally described the essence of hurricane intensity and fearful preparations, as we who have lived through recent hurricanes in Louisiana could attest.
Sharing her life with us as a magazine journalist she had stories of many of the celebrities she had interviewed including many first ladies. True crime and investigative reporting seems to have a way of finding her, people send her information on cases she might find of interest. And if you really want to know what's happening with the perpetrators, check her website for updates on paroles.www.kathryncasey.com
Thank you Kathryn for a wonderful evening and we look forward to reading you new works as well of some of your new releases of former magazine articles and short stories on eBooks.
Kathryn totally described the essence of hurricane intensity and fearful preparations, as we who have lived through recent hurricanes in Louisiana could attest.
Sharing her life with us as a magazine journalist she had stories of many of the celebrities she had interviewed including many first ladies. True crime and investigative reporting seems to have a way of finding her, people send her information on cases she might find of interest. And if you really want to know what's happening with the perpetrators, check her website for updates on paroles.www.kathryncasey.com
Thank you Kathryn for a wonderful evening and we look forward to reading you new works as well of some of your new releases of former magazine articles and short stories on eBooks.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
News and Notes
Thanks to all you wonderful queens for volunteering for Boogie for Books! And especially to those wonderful guys who came to help out also.
Did you see the picture of Beverly and Jim in Jambalaya? If not here's another shot at it:
July Meeting Wed July 27 M L MALCOLM'S visit - Planning Committee headed up by Queen Tracey, other members Beverly Martin, Marilyn Bonnette, Phyllis Stine and Keri Doise
Presently there will be a day event at Central Library, our meeting Wed evening and perhaps a writers group meeting that Bev Martin is arranging
August Meeting Wed AUG 24 (DATE IS CHANGED FROM REGULAR SCHEDULE) KATHRYN CASEY'S VISIT Planning Committee headed up by Queen Allison, members are Beverly M., Laurie, Barbara and Marilyn Bonnette
Also Lake Charles American Press talks about summer reading and books clubs, mentioning our PQ club in particular...click here to take a look
American Press and PQ Book Club edited article is pasted below:
With summer comes longer days and a time when many people take vacations. To stay mentally stimulated or just for pleasure, some people fill their vacation time reading books.
Lake Charles offers both members-only and public book clubs for its residents. The clubs typically meet once a month to discuss a broad variety of books.
A few of the clubs provided their reading lists from the past year and for the summer:
Southwest Louisiana Pulpwood Queens
This book club is part of the Beauty and the Book national club. The club’s 25 members wear tiaras to the once-monthly meetings at Stellar Beans coffee shop. The book recommendations are selected by the national club, and the members decide which books to discuss, said Kay Huck, who founded the local club after Hurricane Rita.
These are the June and July book recommendations:
“Georgia Bottoms” by Mark Childress.
“The Rhinestone Sisterhood: A Journey Through Small-Town America, One Tiara at a Time” by David Valdes Greenwood.
“The Killing Storm” by Kathryn Casey.
“Heart of Deception” by M.L. Macolm.
“Gone with a Handsome Man” by Michael Lee West.
“WOOF: Women Only Over Fifty” by Mary Cunningham, Diana Black and Melinda Richarz Bailey.
“Miss Hildreth Wore Brown: Anecdotes of a Southern Belle” by Olivia daBelle Byrd.
“Murder at the Luther” by Kathleen Kaska.
“Thunder Beach” by Michael Lister.
The Pulpwood Queens’ children’s picks are:
“Interrupting Chicken” by David Ezra Stein.
“A Sick Day for Amos McGee” by Philip Christian Stead.
June Meeting
I am looking forward to seeing you at our meeting next week, June 29th.
I'm sorry that Mark Childress won't be able to call in to entertain us with his stories. He was delightful when we met him at GFW in January.
Many thanks to Tracey and Committee for planning ML Malcolm's visit, sounds great.
Allison and committee will be planning Kathryn Casey's Visit in August.
Hope you all are enjoying your summer and reading a ton of good books!
Speaking of GFW, got an email from Kathy Patrick describing some of the events and have copied the main parts for you:
Dear Pulpwood Queens,
...Here is the price list for members:
$250 for Pulpwood Queen Package to all events including Thursday night Author Dinner, Friday and Saturday all day panels, Friday night PRETTY IN PINK PROM PARTY, GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR CIRCUS themed BALL, Saturday KEYNOTE AUTHOR luncheon, plus Official t-shirt, V.I.P wrist band and free books and galleys from the publishers.
All tickets are non-refundable but can roll over to next year or exchange with another person in group.Friday Night, come PRETTY IN PINK for costumed PROM PARTY. Saturday Night CIRCUS theme for Hair Ball plus table competition.
...
We also are offering a MEMOIR WORKSHOP with author, Texas Observor columnist/Editor of LONNY Magazine in New York, Robert Leleux that is going to be exceptional. $150 for members and includes a signed copy of his NEW book, "The Living End" and lncheon that day. Robert will be our Keynote Speaker Friday morning and our January Book Club Selection so this is a real treat that he can do this for us the Wednesday before we begin the event on Thursday night.
I am working on lining up all the authors but confirmed so far are:
Kathy L. Patrick
Robert Leleux
Michael Morris,
Ad Hudler
Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
River Jordan
Wade Rouse
Man Martin
Caroline Leavitt
Rebecca Rasmussen
Katie Crouch
Kathleen Kaska
M.L. Malcolm
Kathryn Casey
Jamie Ford
Karen Harrington
Robert Hicks
Bill Torgenson
Marcia Fine
Melanie Benjamin
Neil White
and many more in the works
Monday, May 30, 2011
We won a free book! Summer book club campaign with The American Heiress!
If you are interested in a free ebook, just follow the directions outlines below. I don't know anything about the book or the author, just that our book club won the opportunity to discuss the book
From: Samantha.Beerman@macmillan.com
To: Samantha.Beerman@macmillan.com
Subject: Summer book club campaign with The American Heiress!
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 17:39:01 +0000
It's not a PQ selection but it sounds interesting
Let me know if you download it or listen to it
From: Samantha.Beerman@macmillan.com
To: Samantha.Beerman@macmillan.com
Subject: Summer book club campaign with The American Heiress!
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 17:39:01 +0000
Dear Reading Group Members:
On behalf of Macmillan Audio and Reading Group Choices, I am delighted to let you know that your book club has been selected to participate in The American Heiress summer audiobook campaign. You and your fellow group members will each receive the full audiobook program (before its 6/21 on sale date!) of Daisy Goodwin's highly anticipated debut to discuss at your June meetings—just in time for "June is Audiobook Month."
This email includes a link to download the full audiobook edition of The American Heiress, along with directions for both PC and Mac users. Please note that the content of this audiobook is protected by copyright laws of the U.S. and foreign countries. It is intended for your individual use only. Copying, redistribution, broadcasting, editing, or alteration inconsistent with copyright laws is prohibited.
We have a limited quantity of physical audiobooks available. If someone in your group needs a physical copy, please email me. We will fulfill these requests on a first come first serve basis while supplies last. If you have any questions regarding the digital download or the book club campaign in general, please let me know. Thank you again for your participation, and I hope you enjoy listening!
Click here to download: https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=MFo2ak96RndVVGxFQlE9PQ
For PC users:
1. Click on the link above.
2. On the YouSendIt page, click on the green "Download" button.
3. A dialog box may open and ask you if you want to "Save" or "Open" the file you are about to download. Choose "Open". The file is 884 MB and should take about an hour to download (depending on your internet connection).
4. After the download is completed, a new window will open. Click on "Extract All Files" under "Folder Tasks" (left-hand side of window).
5. A program called "File Wizard" will open. Follow the steps.
6. Open iTunes on your computer.
7. Drag the folder labeled "TheAmericanHeiress" into your iTunes music library.
8. From iTunes you can listen to the program, transfer the program to your
MP3 player, or burn the program to a CD. For more information on iTunes, visit http://www.itunes.com.
For Apple users:
1. Click on the link above.
2. On the YouSendIt page, click on the green "Download" button.
3. A dialog box will open asking you if you would like to save the file.
Click "Save File".
4. Find the file called "TheAmericanHeiress.zip", which will be located wherever files downloaded to your computer are kept. More than likely, this is your desktop.
5. Double-click the .zip file to begin extracting the files.
6. Open iTunes
7. Drag the folder "TheAmericanHeiress" into your iTunes music library.
8. From iTunes you can listen to the program, transfer the program to your
MP3 player, or burn the program to a CD. For more information on iTunes, visit http://www.itunes.com.
Warm regards,
Samantha
Samantha Beerman
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Hillene and Val's Mom
Hey Queens!
Wonderful news Hillene will be moving back and she will be able to wear her tiara and join us again! We are eager to see you Hillene!
Wonderful news Hillene will be moving back and she will be able to wear her tiara and join us again! We are eager to see you Hillene!
Also, for those of you who live in south Lake Charles, Val's mom will need a ride home after the meeting Wed. She lives in the Lake St/McNeese St area. If you can help, please contact Val. I told her I would if no one is available
Thanks!
Kay
Kay
I just spoke with Linda Todd. Her sister Hillene will be moving back to the Lake Charles area once her daughter can find a job here. They will be moving into a house down off Sallier St. She wanted all the Pulpwood Queens to know. She said, "Tell them I'll be back to hassle them."
Kay will you please send this out to the group?
Thanks,
bev martin
May Meeting and Boogie for Books
Queens,
Hope you have been reading, cause our meeting is only 10 days away, a week from Wed. My eye surgery went well, I am beginning to read some (obviously if I'm sending email) Don't know if I can finish the book so I will be relying on y'all for discussion with David Greenwood for his SKYPE interview.
You should have received an email from Val for food orders if you haven't you can contact her at: valeriesm@aol.com or 337-302-1978
Laurie: will you forward this to Jenny Wallace so she can see that food is ordered for any queens that are coming and wish to eat. Thanks.
Time to BOOGIE FOR BOOKS - Sat May 21 : We will be in the Literacy Council Tent. Each volunteer will receive a T-shirt We will also wear our tiaras and our PQ name badges. We will be helping with face painting, ticket sales, info on Literacy and book swap, and maybe other things. If you have books you want to swap out, bring them.
2-5 pm Barbara Granger, Keri Doise, Marilyn Bonnette
4-7 pm Lea Durio, Gene and Kay Huck
6-9 pm Beverly and Jim Martin, Allison and Chris Kuhn, Melissa Bender
May Meeting - Wed May 25 - The Rhinestone Sisterhood by David Valdes Greenwood. Former festival queen Jenny Wallace (Queen Laurie's boss) will be our special guest and hopefully other queens, such as our own Queen Phyllis Hughes and her granddaughter Queen Allison volunteered to generate a press release for "Festival Queens meet Pulpwood Queens" Queen Erin will be our discussion leader.
June Meeting Wed June 29 - Georgia Bottoms by Mark Childress (he will be out of the country and unable to call-in) He will answer by email any questions you might have - so write them down as your read his book!
July Meeting Wed July 27 M L MALCOLM'S visit - Planning Committee headed up by Queen Tracey, other members Beverly Martin, Marilyn Bonnette, Phyllis Stine and Keri Doise
Presently there will be a day event at Central Library, our meeting Wed evening and perhaps a writers group meeting that Bev Martin is arranging
August Meeting Wed AUG 24 (DATE IS CHANGED FROM REGULAR SCHEDULE) KATHRYN CASEY'S VISIT Planning Committee headed up by Queen Allison, members are Beverly M., Laurie, Barbara and Marilyn Bonnette
If you have any ideas regarding these author visits please contact myself or the committee Queen!
Remember you can purchase other items through Amazon.com besides books! You might consider ordering extras of Kathryn's and M L's books for gifts, in fact, when I asked they prefer that you purchase books in advance so they don't have to deal with sales.
We met our goal - Amazon commissions are $101.63!!! Erin bring your raffle ticket to the meeting and I'll give you a check.
Fwd: NPR.org - Mysterious Leprosy Cases Linked To Armadillos
Interesting story from NPR on Leprosy.
-Erin
erin.green@gmail.com thought you would be interested in this story: Mysterious Leprosy Cases Linked To Armadillos
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/04/28/135740951/mysterious-leprosy-cases-linked-to-armadillos?sc=emaf
RE: April Meeting Notes
Had email's from ML and Kathryn and they both wanted us to purchase books ahead so we can discuss. They will bring a few books for other guests to purchase if they haven't already but have found it works best if we purchase in advance.
And they truly appreciated our kind consideration.
April Meeting Notes
Good Morning Queens!
We had a great meeting Wed evening at Stellar Beans - Thanks Queen Val for your hospitality and delicious food! A royal welcome to new member Queen Melissa Bender. Her email is: melissakapp@hotmail.com
Author Neil White's call-in was insightful and honestly reflective of his life. I was touched by his story of hope and redemption. We also met his lovely wife Debbie. And we may have a member as a relative! Allison WHITE Kuhn - whose grandfather worked at the hospital in Carrville. And Allison who grew up in the area never knew there was a leporsarium there.
It was agreed to use our Amazon.com money (we have $93.97 and the $6.03 will be there shortly) to purchase a raffle ticket for the Abrazandos Christos Mission. The mission trip sells the raffle tickets for $100 each. The first prize is $5000 - now wouldn't that be a wonderful donation to the Mission! Queens Laurie and Erin are going on the mission this year!! We are so proud of the work that you all are doing and grateful to be a small supportive part of it. We will purchase the ticket from Erin, as each mission participant is responsible for selling the tickets.
Lots of stuff coming up this summer and thanks to all of you who so graciously help --- you are what makes this is dynamic and vibrant book club!
BOOGIE FOR BOOKS - Sat May 21 These queens signed up to help, you can still sign up just let me know: We will be in the Literacy Council Tent. Each volunteer will receive a T-shirt (so I will need sizes). We will also wear our tiaras and our PQ name badges
2-5 pm Barbara Granger, Keri Doise, Marilyn Bonnette
4-7 pm Linda Breaux, Lea Durio, Gene and Kay Huck
6-9 pm Beverly Martin, Allison and Chris Kuhn, Melissa Bender
May Meeting - Wed May 25 - The Rhinestone Sisterhood by David Valdes Greenwood. Former festival queen Jenny Wallace (Queen Laurie's boss) will be our special guest and hopefully other queens, such as our own Queen Phyllis Hughes and her granddaughter Queen Allison volunteered to generate a press release for "Festival Queens meet Pulpwood Queens" Queen Erin will be our discussion leader.
June Meeting Wed June 29 - Georgia Bottoms by Mark Childress (he will be out of the country and unable to call-in) He will answer by email any questions you might have - so write them down as your read his book!
July Meeting Wed July 27 M L MALCOLM'S visit - Planning Committee headed up by Queen Tracey, other members Beverly Martin, Marilyn Bonnette, Phyllis Stine and Keri Doise
Presently there will be a day event at Central Library, our meeting Wed evening and perhaps a writers group meeting that Bev Martin is arranging
August Meeting Wed AUG 24 (DATE IS CHANGED FROM REGULAR SCHEDULE) KATHRYN CASEY'S VISIT Planning Committee headed up by Queen Allison, members are Beverly M., Laurie, Barbara and Marilyn Bonnette
If you have any ideas regarding these author visits please contact myself or the committee Queen!
Guess that about wraps it up...whew for a book club you sure are a busy bunch of Queen Bee's!!! Remember you can purchase other items through Amazon.com besides books! You might consider ordering extras of Kathryn's and M L's books for gifts!
Love you all
Queen Kay
Wed Meeting
Hi Queens,
Hope you had a wonderful Easter. We enjoyed being with family and hiding Easter eggs. Nice relaxed day and blessed with wonderful church services.
Looking forward to seeing y'all Wed evening at Stellar Beans, 5:30 pm. Please contact Val if you still need your food ordered.
Neil White is scheduled to skype about 7 pm. Have your questions ready!
Does anyone want to volunteer to be discussion leader? Let me know, first one I hear from will be it.
Check your calendars for Sat May 21 for Boogie for Books sponsored by the Literacy Council. They suggested helping with the story-telling tent, reading books to young children or even as ticket takers and various helpers. I believe the event is from 3 pm to 10 pm
Those of you who have paid your $10 activity fee will have your names on the bookplates. If you haven't paid and want the bookplates, let me know and I can include you and you can pay Wed evening. I'll be sending them off to David Greenwood for The Rhinestone Sisterhood this week.
Queen Tracey has agreed to chair the committee to plan M L Malcolm's visit in July. Also working with her are Queens Keri, Phyllis Stine, Beverly Martin and Marilyn Bonnette. Thank you! We will be looking for some kind of theme for the visit.
Also, will need a committee to plan Kathryn Casey's visit in August.
See you Wed
Love you
Kay
Friday, May 13, 2011
May Meeting
David Valdes Greenwood, author of The Rhinestone Sisterhood, is eagerly looking forward to our May meeting when he will join us via SKYPE.. Maybe even connecting with some of the queens he met while researching his book.
Former festival queens have been invited to join us. I hope we will have several who will give us the inside scoop on what is really means to be a festival queen in Louisiana.
Former festival queens have been invited to join us. I hope we will have several who will give us the inside scoop on what is really means to be a festival queen in Louisiana.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
April Meeting
April Meeting we will be chatting with author Neil White about his book In the Sanctuary of Outcasts. Were you familiar with this part of Louisiana history before his book? I know I wasn't.
weclome to PQ's
Hi Rose,
A royal welcome to our newest member Rose Gray!
Our meetings are generally the last Wed of the month at 5:30 at Stellar Beans in downtown Lake Charles. Val will send an email about a week prior to the meeting for you to respond with your meal order if you will be attending.
Our activity fee is $10 per active member.
Our book selections for the upcoming months are:
April 27 - In the Sanctuary of outcasts by neil White
May 23 - The Rhinestone Sisterhood by david Valdes Greenwood
june 29 - Georgia Bottoms by Mark Childress
July 27 - Heart of Deception by M L Malcolm
Aug 24 The Killing Storm by Kathryn Casey
We enjoy our reading, discussing and having fun together, especially Girlfriend Weekend. I understand you will be joining us for that adventure aslo! Great, need to put on your creative hat for Circus ideas !!
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Malcolm confirmed for July 27
Hey Queens,
Just got a confirmation from M.L. Malcolm, M L's Website , that she will visit for our July 27th Meeting!! Can't wait!
We've got a great summer of reading ahead of us.
Blessings,
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