https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:40:31 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-january-book-of-the-month#post-1288823 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:13:23 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1288823@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TemperanceBrennan: I picked it because memoirs are packed with great life lessons. Added bonus is that this book is funny while dispensing food for thought. Or so I hope so. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-january-book-of-the-month#post-1288768 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:50:17 +0000 Mrs. J 1288768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I teach A Lesson Before Dying. It is a great book! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-january-book-of-the-month#post-1288686 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:23:25 +0000 autumnlove 1288686@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Bossy pants! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-january-book-of-the-month#post-1288649 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:09:56 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 1288649@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Bossypants was fantastic! But I don't think it lends itself to a traditional book club discussion. It would be fun to share our favorite parts though. I have the audiobook as well (read by Tina) and it was even better than the book. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-january-book-of-the-month#post-1288508 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:22:59 +0000 mrsjyw 1288508@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LOVED bossypants! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-january-book-of-the-month#post-1288239 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 07:22:23 +0000 Tidybee 1288239@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've read stones from the river and bossypants already - both great! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-january-book-of-the-month#post-1288178 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 02:16:41 +0000 SweetMamaM 1288178@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I voted for Stones From The River... Sounds fascinating! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-january-book-of-the-month#post-1287825 Tue, 17 Dec 2013 21:56:39 +0000 IRunForFun 1287825@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I voted Stones From the River, too! I'd also like to read Bossypants, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-january-book-of-the-month#post-1287730 Tue, 17 Dec 2013 21:28:16 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1287730@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@knittylady: by all means join us :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-january-book-of-the-month#post-1287644 Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:52:51 +0000 knittylady 1287644@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haven't participated yet, but I want to and voted for Stones from the River! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-january-book-of-the-month#post-1287597 Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:27:57 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1287597@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: I figured that was your vote :wink: no matter what you will be able to participate in the discussion. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-january-book-of-the-month#post-1287589 Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:20:10 +0000 mrsjazz 1287589@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: I don't think my choice is going to win since so far I'm the only one who voted for it: Stones from the River. But I only voted for it because I read the other three books. So, good choices :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-january-book-of-the-month#post-1287566 Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:08:29 +0000 regberadaisy 1287566@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I vote Bossy Pants! Love Tina Fey and have always meant to read this. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-january-book-of-the-month#post-1287547 Tue, 17 Dec 2013 19:58:00 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1287547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hello Everyone,</p> <p>Hope you are enjoying the holiday season and reading is on your 2014 New Year Resolutions list as we gear up for the January book. Please vote for one of these books and then join in the discussion!</p> <p>1) Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi (288 pp)</p> <p>Stones from the River is a daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Germany. It is set in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 1915 and 1951. The protagonist is Trudi Montag, a Zwerg -- the German word for dwarf woman. As a dwarf she is set apart, the outsider whose physical "otherness" has a corollary in her refusal to be a part of Burgdorf's silent complicity during and after World War II. Trudi establishes her status and power, not through beauty, marriage, or motherhood, but rather as the town's librarian and relentless collector of stories.<br /> Through Trudi's unblinking eyes, we witness the growing impact of Nazism on the ordinary townsfolk of Burgdorf as they are thrust on to a larger moral stage and forced to make choices that will forever mark their lives. Stones from the River is a story of secrets, parceled out masterfully by Trudi -- and by Ursula Hegi -- as they reveal the truth about living through unspeakable times.</p> <p>2) River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke (245 pp)</p> <p>Five-year-old Clara Bynum is dead, drowned in the Potomac River in the shadow of a seemingly haunted rock outcropping known locally as the Three Sisters. River, Cross My Heart, which marks the debut of a wonderfully gifted new storyteller, weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, ten-year-old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions stirred by her sister's death as she struggles to decide what kind of woman she will become. This highly accomplished first novel resonates with ideas, impassioned lyricism, and poignant historical detail as it captures an essential part of the African-American experience in our century.</p> <p>3) A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J Gaines (256 pp)</p> <p>A Lesson Before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting—and defying—the expected.</p> <p>4) Bossypants by Tina Fey (277 pp)</p> <p>Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon -- from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence. Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.</p> <p>Voting will be open now through Sunday, December 22nd! Every vote counts! </p>