Book Club/Cooking Club - Sept 29th (directions updated)

Lynnae has put together a book club/cooking club activity for next week. Everyone is invited!

Here is all the info:

We will be combining the first meeting so we can get everything organized for the year.  It will be on Thursday, September 29th at 7:00pm at my house (Lynnae).  My address is 3 Medical Plaza, which is across the street from the medical school (where we had our opening social) and in between the Medical Towers to the west.

Directions:

If you are coming from the south, head north on Foothill and turn right on Mario Cappechi Dr.  If you are coming from the west (downtown), turn left on Mario Cappechi Dr.   From there, you will go through a traffic light and under the pedestrian bridge.  Then take your next right (S. Medical Drive).  Take the second right (1900 E.) through the construction zone of the new Skaggs Hall Building.  Take your second right again into a parking lot below the Medical Towers (there is a little red sign next to the speed limit sign that says Townhouses). As you enter the parking lot, if you drove straight ahead, you would run into the back of my house, which is right in between the Medical Towers.  Park anywhere that isn't a reserved spot and enter in through a black gate into a courtyard of townhouses.  Mine is the first one on the left.

Cooking Club:  We will be picking the themes and hostesses for the school year.  The theme for this time is Appetizers.  Make your favorite appetizer and bring some to share with everyone.  Please email me a copy of your recipe (lynnae.hymas@gmail.com).  I will compile them into a pdf file and email them out to the Cooking Club so we can all have a copy.  My plan is to have each night be a "chapter" in a cook book.  At the end of the year, we'll send out a master pdf cookbook.  I will also put them into an actual cookbook on Blub.com that you can order a hard copy of if you would like at the end of the year.  We'll be taking pictures at the events to include in the cookbook.  Feel free to email me your own picture of your recipe if you'd like.  There is always plenty of food, so even if you don't have time to make something, still feel free to come!

Book Club:  We will be picking the books, the hostesses, and the discussion leaders for this school year.  Bring your ideas if there is a book you want to read.  Here is also a list of possible books to choose from:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Book Thief  by Markus Zusak

The Ladies Auxiliary by Tovas Mirvis

My Name is Asher Lev by Chiam Potok

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

Still Alice  by Lisa Genova

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

The Constant Princess by Philipa Gregory

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

I'm really excited about the Book Club and Cooking Club. It's such a great way to get to know other MSA members and to have fun together.  Hope to see you all there!