Sean and I are giving our digestive systems a break this week. Sean has been reading the famous book Skinny Bastard, guy version (complete with swearing and other locker-room lingo) of the even-more-famous book Skinny Bitch. It’s all about how you have to shape up and eat right if you want to be fit, so…
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Book reviews, By A Normal Gal
BANG Book Review: The Year of Living Biblically
This month’s GGG book, chosen by the oft-mentioned Skye ( 🙂 ) was The Year of Living Biblically, by A.J. Jacobs. Skye picked it because she had read The Know-It-All by the same author and loved it. Not all the gals who made it to the meeting had finished the book, but we were all…
Dilovely’s Harry Potter Geek-Out, including “Harry, A History”
SPOILER ALERT: I may discuss Potter plot. If you have been meaning to read Harry Potter – any of it – and still haven’t gotten around to it… what’s wrong with you? Go read it. Just close this window and go. Shoo! For the rest of you… here we go. It’s a doozy. Ahem. We…
BANG Book Review – Three Cups of Tea
The GGG’s latest book, discussed yesterday over frozen drinks on the patio (which, now that I think about it, is a bit ironic), was Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. It says Greg Mortenson’s name first on the cover, but it seemed to me that David Oliver Relin was more…
Why I Love Emily Giffin
Emily Giffin is the author of The Heart of the Matter, Love the One You’re With, Baby Proof, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue. Her novels aren’t considered great literature – it’s what you would call “chick lit”, but I own all five of them and find them not only readable, but re-readable. Why I love…
Smut Month at GGG Book Club
This evening, the GGG Book Club met at a public venue for our meeting to “discuss” our Harlequin Romance novel-reading experiences. We all had a few books to read – some of us managed to finish more than others. I should explain, a couple of us are friends with a Harlequin employee, so we have…
BANG Book Review – A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Our latest GGG book club pick, A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore, was pretty much a unanimous “not recommended”. Overall, the gals were disappointed. Before getting into that, I will say that although I didn’t love the book, I did enjoy it. I did not find it boring or hard to get through,…
BANG Book Review – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
… By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. The GGG book club liked it! Some even loved it. It’s the story, told through letters post-WWII, of a woman who becomes fascinated by the stories of the German occupation of the island of Guernsey, and goes to the island to learn more. We all found the…
Little Potty Adventures, a.k.a. Elimination Communication
For those of you wondering what we are doing putting our 7-month-old on the potty, allow me to explain. (I don’t really talk about this a lot with people because they invariably start out thinking it’s freakish: “You’re toilet training already??” But once you explain, it makes a lot of sense.) Raise your hand if…
The GGG Book Club – Complete List
The following is the list of books that the book club of the Guelph Gang of Gals has read. (We aren’t officially called this, in fact we aren’t officially called anything, but this post seemed to call for a grandiose title.) From the beginning!! Which is something, because this group has been meeting for… gosh,…