Blockbuster Announcement!!

Okay, ladies, it's time for our ginormous blockbuster announcement!!!

I wanted to make sure we got everything ironed out and all the "i's" dotted and "t's" crossed so I could roll out the red carpet on our summer reading.

We have decided to go with particular themes in choosing our books just to shake things up a bit!

Our summer theme is Blockbuster Movie Summer Reading Fun!! 

First, I'll tell you the July pick and how to follow along with the bookclub for that month. Then I will explain the Blockbuster Movie tie-in to the book and how that will work with our August pick. 'Kay?

The book for July is....drumroll please...

Water For Elephants

We are linking up with our favorite Twi-fans, Trixie and Tess, to read and join in the discussion for this book.

How this will work is that every time Trixie and Tess do a post about the book, we will make sure to link up with them so you don't miss out on the discussion. If you don't follow them already, you may want to start so that you don't miss out! Click here to read how the bookclub will work with T&T. Then click here to read their post about WFE and how you may be able to win a copy of the book!

Now, I'm sure you're all wondering..."Girlfriends. What the heck does Water For Elephants have to do with Blockbuster Movie Summer Reading Fun...?! Have you lost your ever lovin' minds?" Well, as an aside, we probably have lost our minds, but! Here is how this ties in...

Water for Elephants is being made into a movie. Right now. As we speak. Swears.

Next question..."Girlfriends, what does WFE have to do with a Twilight blog...?"

The guy who plays Edward Cullen in Twilight, is also playing the lead in WFE. Duh. Forehead slap.

Edward Cullen

Jacob Jankowski

I know he looks different, but trust me, it's the same dude.

Okay.

dude!! I just thought of something else...the guy plays edward in twilight...and jacob in WFE! hello, if you read twilight, you know what i'm talking about...edward/jacob?! okay. i'll stop now.

Are you following so far?

This is where we make the next step in our breadcrumb trail that leads to our Blockbuster Movie Summer Reading Fun. (BMSRF from here on out because I'm tired of typing all of that out.)
One Blockbuster that is coming out very soon is Eclipse, a Twilight Saga movie.
(don't worry, we aren't making you go watch it, but really, why wouldn't you want to see all that hotness??    Jacob....mmm....Edward...mmm...somebody trying to kill Bella...oh yeah, that's the best part.)


The Twilight Saga was written by none other than Stephenie Meyer. Since we're sort of on this Twilight theme here...why not make our August pick a book by Ms. Meyer? We figure some of you avid book snobs readers won't want to read a Twilight book, so we're picking The Host for August. A very different sort of book by the Twilight author, yet no vamps involved at all!

Not only is this book by the author of Twilight (which has edward in it; played by rob pattinson. rob pattinson is also in WFE; hence our july pick.) but this book is also going to be a movie!!

And last, but not least, Jessica and MiMi will be traveling to Forks, Washington in September for Stephenie Meyer Day!!

Actually. Hmm. Does that have anything to do with this book or anything...? Well. Yes. I'm gonna say yes. In a roundabout, follow the breadcrumbs and don't fall into the quicksand that is my brain, way.

And that, ladies, is our announcement!

Summer is for Blockbusters and for reading, so why not combine the two?

July's pick is Water For Elephants, linked up with T&T.

August's pick is The Host, by Stephenie Meyer.


What do you all think? Good? Bad? Ugly?

Spoiler Alert Tuesday

What?! It's Tuesday?! Oh. Yep. Guess it is.

This is what happens when you have a long weekend. You think Tuesday is Monday.

This is our final post on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo!

We are taking a break for June so everyone can finish whatever book they are reading and get caught up. We will be back in July and hopefully have a clearer schedule where we will have book picks up on time. *Ahem. MiMi tends to forget the 15th of the month. Like every month.*

I am crossing my fingers that we will be participating in a cool feature in July with another blog that we love.

Spoilers Below!!

Who did you think was the protagonist of the book? Mikael or Lisbeth?

Do you think Lisbeth has a diagnosable disorder, or is her personality just quirky? Like, majorly quirky.

At the end did you wish that they got together?

What did you think of the last scene were Lisbeth sees Mikael and Berger?

Why do you think Mikael decided not to publish the story about the Vanger clan?

**most importantly though...did you pronounce Mikael like Michael or Muh-kayle...?**