Book: The Lake House by Kate Morton
Meeting Place: Rockwood Tap House
Ratings:
Kim - 2.75 |
| Drawing names and JW's dessert! |
Michaelene - 2.5
Joyce - Made it to chapter 9!
Melissa - 3.5
Average Rating: 3.21
We all met at Rockwood Tap House in Downer's Grove. We had a great
night....well, except for the service. Obviously, Rockwood Tap House was the last place this waiter wanted to be on this particular Wednesday evening. Especially serving 6 women who were going to sit for awhile discussing a book. But we did have a great meal along with Joyce's cherry-cream cheese dessert! Yum! Thanks Joyce!
We began our evening with Sherry's discussion questions. Most of us had some concerns about the eminent author Kate Morton. We all praised her for The Secret Keeper. Then we read The Forgotten Garden and ratings fell slightly. This month we read her latest The Lake House and ratings dropped again. Her books are all pretty similar in format and we feel she needs to change things in future books. Although we still enjoyed various parts of The Lake House, we all had similar complaints. First, some felt the book could've been 100 pages shorter. There were some events in the book that were irrelevant. She adds a great amount of imagery to her books. Some view this as too much "fluff" while others feel it paints a clear picture of the setting. Last, some of the events were a little too far-fetched. Way too unbelievable or coincidental to say the least!
Recommendation: Although we did somewhat enjoy the book, I'm not sure many of us would highly recommend it for the reasons above.
BCDP: Sherry had us draw out of a hat and the winner was Barb! She picked the paper with baby Theo, one of the characters from the book. Barb won a beautiful flowering pot!
night....well, except for the service. Obviously, Rockwood Tap House was the last place this waiter wanted to be on this particular Wednesday evening. Especially serving 6 women who were going to sit for awhile discussing a book. But we did have a great meal along with Joyce's cherry-cream cheese dessert! Yum! Thanks Joyce!
We began our evening with Sherry's discussion questions. Most of us had some concerns about the eminent author Kate Morton. We all praised her for The Secret Keeper. Then we read The Forgotten Garden and ratings fell slightly. This month we read her latest The Lake House and ratings dropped again. Her books are all pretty similar in format and we feel she needs to change things in future books. Although we still enjoyed various parts of The Lake House, we all had similar complaints. First, some felt the book could've been 100 pages shorter. There were some events in the book that were irrelevant. She adds a great amount of imagery to her books. Some view this as too much "fluff" while others feel it paints a clear picture of the setting. Last, some of the events were a little too far-fetched. Way too unbelievable or coincidental to say the least!
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| Baby Theo |
Recommendation: Although we did somewhat enjoy the book, I'm not sure many of us would highly recommend it for the reasons above.
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| Barb's win |
BCDP: Sherry had us draw out of a hat and the winner was Barb! She picked the paper with baby Theo, one of the characters from the book. Barb won a beautiful flowering pot!
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