Book Club & Giveaway! * Comfort Food * Enter to Win a Copy

For the month of July we will be reading Kate Jacob's newest book Comfort Food. Comfort Food is about Gus Simpson a Cooking Show host who is about to turn 50. She is a windowed mother of two girls and strong confident women who has worked hard and loves what she does but all this is has a twist. As in The Friday Night Knitting Club Kate Jacob's puts together a group of many layered characters. As you read this month you can check out Kate's reading guide here and a faux Cooking Channel website here complete with recipes.This month we are doing something a little different for the Book Club. We are giving away a copy of Comfort Food our book club read of the month. Please send in your favorite comfort food recipe along with a photo and we might just share it!

{ To Enter Win the book Comfort Food }

~ Send me an email with Comfort Food as the subject to sweetlifeinthevalley@gmail.com

~ Answer the question of the week: What is your Comfort Food? We would love it if you sent in a recipe and photo of it too...

~ Include your name & address-open to anyone is the U.S

~ You have until midnight Monday July 14th enter this giveaway NOTE: giveaway runs for two weeks!!!

~ Don't forget to *get extra entries !

1} Refer someone & get an extra entry! We want to spread the word about Sweet Life in the Valley so if you refer someone to our giveaway & they enter you get an extra entry.1. Send the names of the people you referred with your entry2.They enter you get an extra entry for each person who enters

2} Write about our giveaway on your blog myspace or other place online send me a link to your post and get an extra entry

3} Add a link on your blogroll myspace etc and get an extra entry (if you are linked to us you get an extra entry in every giveaway -be sure to let me know you added it)

Book Club & Other Stuff * Twenty Wishes

I never had a chance to tell everyone about our Book Club read for the month of June. Twenty Wishes is fun book about a group of windowed women of all ages. Out of a get together the concept of writing down Twenty Wishes becomes the theme of their lives. I have written down a few wishes of my own but I am not yet to twenty. One of my wishes is to lay on my back on the cobble stone streets in Boston and look up at the city and take in the history that happened there as I think about what had happened right in that spot and who could have walked right were I am laying.

I would love to hear some of your wishes and it would be great if you all started a Twenty Wishes list of your own. Feel free to share I would love to hear some of your wishes. Dream big and have fun! Read the book you will like it. You can post your wish on the comments or email them to me at sweetlifeinthevalley@gmail.com

Click here to see Debbie Macomber's website. Debbie is also doing a readers contest click here to see the prize and how to enter.

Book Club* June 2008

I have finally decided on our read for the month of June. Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber. More to come later today with our discussion on last month's read Wednesday Letters and more info about Twenty Wishes.

Book Club * April 2008

{ Caution }

Please know that there are spoilers in this post!

{ Things I liked }

I really enjoyed Kate's writing style. I was always wanting to read more to see what happens next. I was never bored!

I love the idea of a group of women who would under other circumstances would not be friends getting together and becoming great friends.

I liked the real feelings of betrayal, anger, love, excitement, & friendship Kate expresses in this book. It was about real women in real experiences.


{ Things I wasn't too thrilled about }

I feel like the end of the book was a bit rushed.

Toward the end of the book a lot of profanity was used that could have been omitted.

I was very disappointed that Georgia dead at the end. I need to read something that will make me feel good at the end of the day. I have enough drama in my real life. I know this is something some people enjoy but for me it was a bit of a disappointment.



Over all I like the book. I am looking foward to the new book out by Kate Jacobs called Comfort Food that comes out May 6th. Everyone is welcome to post comments on the book. Please keep them respectful.

{ Our Read for May 2008 }

This next month-May we will be reading The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright. The book is based around a letters a husband writes to his his wife every week their entire marriage. What a lovely idea. What a great way to keep the interest and communication alive in your marriage.Be sure to visit Jason Site and check out the fun video he made with his daughter that gives you a tour of the town in the book. He also has a book club guide that is a great to help inspire comments for the book club. Enjoy reading this month.

Book Club * Friday Night Knitting Club

NOTE: We have extended this book into April and will meet to discuss on April 30th. If you have any question please contact me at sweetlifeinthevalley@gmail.com

Next month{May}we will be reading The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright happy reading everyone!

{Sweet Life in the Valley Book Club ~ March 2008}

Welcome to the first monthly meeting of the Sweet Life in the Valley Book Club. At the beginning of each month we will be selecting a book to read. Suggestions are welcome from everyone on the next book to read. The last Monday of the month we will have a comment meeting to talk about the book of the month & announce the book for the next month. Everyone is welcome to read the book of the month and chat about what they think of the book. This month we will be reading The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs. With learning to knit as one of my new years resolutions this title caught me eye when I was looking through Borders Books. Here is a quote from Kate herself about the book, " My goal for the novel was to provide the reader with a bit of a respite by sharing the imaginary world of Walker and Daughter, a cozy knitting shop nestled in New York City's bustling Upper West Side. It is here that readers can put aside their cares, enjoying the company of single mom and store owner Georgia Walker, her young daughter Dakota, their grandmotherly friend Anita, and the handful of smart, funny, tough women who comprise The Friday Night Knitting Club." Kate has a website & a blog. She also has another book coming out this week on the 6th called Comfort Food. We may just read this new book in a coming month.

{Sweet Life in the Valley Book Club}

~ Send me an email to sweetlifeinthevalley@gmail.com with Book Club as the subject if you are reading along -it is nice to see how many are interested in The Book Club

~Read our book of the month The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs

~Visit on Monday March 31st to comment on the book and get the title for our April read. Even if you have not finished the book please join us for the Book Club comment day.

~Tell your friends & family about the Sweet Life in the Valley Book Club the more the merrier!

~Kate's Reader's Guide for The Friday Night Knitting Club Click Here. This is a great place to get ideas on comments to make at the comment meeting. Caution do not read this page until you are finished with the book.

P.S. I forgot to mention that The Friday Night Knitting Club is going to be made into a movie! What exciting news for Kate.