The Bluestocking Society: A Novel Group

1/25/13

Gone Girl Reading Guide

Gone Girl (Flynn): Our Reading Guide for Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn includes Book Club Discussion Questions, Book Reviews, Plot Summary-Synopsis and Author Bio.

Bluestocking (Grand) Baby Boom

In a span of about three weeks, three Bluestocking daughters had babies!

Boom!

8/20/12

Discussion questions for The Dovekeepers and a note from the author can be found HERE

7/23/12

Discussion Questions for The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

HERE are the discussion questions for The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. If you want to visit the website for the book, you can find it HERE.

7/12/12

Bluestocking Centennial

The Bluestocking Society has met 100 times! Thanks, Erin, for a wonderful centennial celebration!

5/17/12

Kitchen House

Thanks, Ann, for an evening with such attention to detail and a scrumptious dinner...better than anything they could have whipped up in the Kitchen House. :)

Lavinia's bird nest collection.

Lavinia gets her own doll.

A meal fit for the big house.

5/6/12

The Kitchen House

HERE is the reader's guide for our May book; there's also a Q&A with the author. See y'all on the 17th!

4/5/12

Half Broke Horses

HERE are some discussion questions for our next book. There are three questions that address parallels to The Glass Castle, which I found interesting.

3/23/12

Peculiar

Some of us really liked Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and others...not so much. That's okay; it made for an interesting discussion.

We DID, however, agree that the food was amazing.

a bluestocking tradition

(If you are playing along at home, recipes are HERE and HERE.)

tablescape

We were delighted with photographs of peculiar Bluestockings.

we loved ourselves as the peculiars

After our discussion of the book, we took turns sharing stories about our own peculiar relatives. Trust me, there were some doozies!

3/15/12

The Bluestocking Society is anticipating its 100th meeting in July! No fireworks are planned, but I imagine we might just take a few minutes to remember the awesome AND awful selections we've made over the years!