Funnel cakes!

Here is the recipe for funnel cakes:

1 egg
3/4 cup milk
1 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt

Heat 1 1/2 to 2 inches of oil to 350 degrees.
In medium bowl, beat egg with milk. Stir in the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Mix until smooth. Pour 1/4 cup of batter into a funnel, with finger covering the little hole. Drop batter into hot oil, making snake-like coils. Cook about two minutes on each side. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and enjoy. This recipe makes 6 funnel cakes.

February

When Hazel Marie Puckett and her nine-year-old son, Little Lloyd, show up on Julia Springer's doorstep in Abbotsford, North Carolina, Miss Julia receives the shock of her long and proper life. After 44 years of marriage to pillar-of-church-and-community Wesley Lloyd Springer, she discovers that while she had assumed he was working late at the family bank, he was engaged in other, more carnal, pursuits. For, as Hazel Marie shyly explains, Little Lloyd is Miss Julia's late husband's son. His arrival in Miss Julia's life sets off a chain of events that involves a hypocritical minister, a violent beating, a crooked televangelist, a high-speed car chase, a kidnapping, and a surprising revelation about her late husband's will. Miss Julia not only speaks her mind but also comes to a deeper understanding of the meaning of love, friendship, and trust.

This is for Candy...

Candy entered a contest that will (hopefully) help her get her book published. And in order to do this, she needs to link back to the contest on her blog. Since she is one of our most illustrious bloggers, she thought it would be appropriate to blog it here. We also thought it would be appropriate (and it could get us a little more traffic). Although Jennifer's family has done a fantastic job of boosting our non-club member postings (some of them have posted more than some of our members), if we get readers that aren't related to any of us, it might give us some street cred.

Here is the link to the contest. Although Candy might not like this, if any of you have a COMPLETED YA or MG book (whatever that is, said the non-reader), follow the link to enter the contest. But since none of us naughties have a completed book of any kind (other than Candy), I think she is safe.

Kidlit Contest

PS-How do you like that I change from first to third person as it suits us?

January's Book Pick

Written from Debbie Rodriguez's personal experiences in Afghanistan between 2001-2006, "Kabul Beauty School" not only tells Debbie's story, but the stories of the Afghanistan women that Debbie met during her stay in the country. Rodriguez uses an easy writing style that has the reader turning the pages without realizing it. The stories of Afghanistan and it's women will swell up a range of emotion from happiness to despair, but thankfully Rodriguez leaves us with hope for the future.

The full book online:
http://books.google.com/books?id=8DNOF6i5VzwC&dq=kabul+beauty+school&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=xM3IJiBT0B&sig=yyMjvEMg1g6qroWoGwuf9psAsv4&hl=en&ei=NEImS-qqCZHasQOhm7inBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=&f=false

December's Book of the Month

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survived.

I thought this was a nice cheery book. Just right for the holiday season. ;) I hope you all enjoy.

(Book Club will be held on December 14th @ Linda's house)

November Book

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

By Jamie Ford

Book Pick for October

The Last Treasure

by Janet S Anderson

Publisher Comments:

From the author of Going Through the Gate, here is an extraordinary work of the imagination, a puzzle mystery book in which the prize is the redemption of a family.