Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Cake and jewelry pictures coming soon!
I'm going to upload some pictures of my latest cakes and jewelry designs. Let me know if you are interested in ordering a cake or jewelry.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
October's Pick
Antonia's Pick for October
Miss Peregrine's
Home for
Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs
Click here to watch the book trailer (from Barnes & Noble site)
Monday, July 2, 2012
Sunday, June 3, 2012
June Homework Assignments
Keep reading on if your interested to find out what happens to Christian and Ana.
Homework assignments for 50 Shades of Grey:
Bring a picture of how you picture Christian Grey.
And wear something red to bookclub.
Date: TBA..note it will not be on the last Tuesday of the month. Lori is on call that night, so to accomodate her schedule we will be changing the day. I will text everyone around the 18th.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Discussion Questions:
- Read Genesis 34 and discuss how The Red Tent changes your perspective on Dinah’s story and also on the story of Joseph that follows. Does The Red Tent raise questions about other women in the Bible? Does it make you want to re-read the Bible and imagine other untold stories that lay hidden between the lines?
- Discuss the marital dynamics of Jacob’s family. He has four wives; compare his relationship with each woman?
- What do you make of the relationships among the four wives?
- Dinah is rich in "mothers." Discuss the differences or similarities in her relationship with each woman.
- Childbearing and childbirth are central to The Red Tent. How do the fertility childbearing and birthing practices differ from contemporary life? How are they similar? How do they compare with your own experiences as a mother or father?
- Discuss Jacob’s role as a father. Does he treat Dinah differently from his sons? Does he feel differently about her? If so, how?
- Discuss Dinah’s twelve brothers. Discuss their relationships with each other, with Dinah, and with Jacob and his four wives. Are they a close family?
- Female relationships figure largely in The Red Tent. Discuss the importance of Inna, Tabea, Werenro, and Meryt.
- In the novel, Rebecca is presented as an Oracle. Goddesses are venerated along with gods. What do you think of this culture, in which the Feminine has not yet been totally divorced from the Divine? How does El, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, fit into this?
- Dinah’s point of view is often one of an outsider, an observer. What effect does this have on the narrative? What effect does this have on the reader?
- The book travels from Haran (contemporary Iraq/Syria), through Canaan and into Shechem (Israel), and into Egypt. What strikes you about the cultural differences Dinah encounters vis-à-vis food, clothing, work, and male-female relationships.
- In The Red Tent, we see Dinah grow from childhood to old age. Discuss how she changes and matures. What lessons does she learn from life? If you had to pick a single word to describe the sum of her life, what word would you choose? How would Dinah describe her own life experience?
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
March pick
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
“Tough-minded, inspiring, and irresistible book…Boo’s extraordinary achievement is twofold. She shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as importantly, she makes us care.”People
Sunday, February 26, 2012
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