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NEW SITE

Our other location started to put ads on without permission, so I am moving to this new location to hold our book club. NO ADDS, YO! This site has all the info from the last one in archive and on each member's individual pages. I also laboriously searched through pictures going back to 2012 in search of photos of our club. They were hit and miss for a while, and not always the best shots, but in Season 5 I made it a goal to get a shot of us at the meetings. If you have any pics to share from over the years, send them my way. Here's one of the great ones from our July meeting, just missing Kim!

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