Hear ye, Hear ye: It's almost the new year... ye.

Oh Helllllooooooo!
Fun anecdote before we begin: Mark has been harassing me with Mrs. Doubtfire soundbites that he downloaded off the inter webs.
Why?
Why not?
So now every time I even think the word "hello" my brain goes with this:

Ahem.
Moving right along.
CPBC Holiday Book Exchange was excellent. Our fab hosts Michelle and Chris had a lovely spread for us, lots of Christmas cheer and of course, good books to exchange.
Hot items this year were the hot Sexy Book of Sex, Orange is the new Black, and The book of Yiddish Insults.
Always a treat to see what people come up with.
Bonus book: Teen Talks with God. I'm SO excited to read that one.
I don't remember all the others but people seemed to be content with their haul.

Other noteworthy events of the evening was the revelation that Modern furniture is apparently responsible for the majority of toe stubs, it was unanimously decided that we are all grateful that chicken breasts do not have nipples, and also resulted in Six Fish Nips, the greatest band name of all time.
Oh, we also had some cat greeting cards and holiday ornaments.
I will say that 2013 was awesome in that we had 8 book clubs and each was hosted by a different member.
Pretty amazing and wonderful to have found a fun and sassy group of book lovers to share the adventures with.
February will mark Year 4 - I hope you all are ready.
Love, hugs, and literary boners to you all as you embark on a new year.

PS I got $75 worth of B&N gift cards for X-mas...
That's like, nearly a thousand!
GAH!

What's the symbology there?

For Shame!
As the sanctioned scribe of the CPBC history, I am saddened at my lack of upkeep.
Not one but TWO CPBC's have come and gone since my last post.
We even have the third on the books!

Well, like sands through the hour glass...
time passes fast, what can ya do?

Recap:
October: Creepy Person's Book Club at Anna & Heidi's new place back in uptown. We read spooky stories and reminisced about Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - one of the generation-defining books of our time, I would say. My personal fav - the girl with the green ribbon around her neck that kept her head from falling off.
Ah, the good ol' days.
We feasted upon tasty cheeses, crackers, dips, salad, lasagna. NOM.

Hop, skip, and a couple weeks down the road we had CPBC November at Shannon's place reading the ever addictive Hyperbole and a Half - the BOOK and eating tasty fajitas.
Long time blog favorite of many in the group, Allie finally put her hijinks into print form for the masses and the world was good again.
I personally prefer the blog, mainly just because it has been a friend of mine for so long. Some of her earlier posts, pre-illustrative fame are worth the read too. I especially like her non-sexual strip tease to an angry detractor, Kyle.
You shouldn't have said those mean things, Kyle!

Coming up, we have the 3rd Annual CPBC Holiday Book Exchange hosted by Michelle.
I am so excited!

In the meantime, for a literary snack, try this nugget in your feedbag:
The scene is 1963, and a young English student took it upon himself to write letters to some authors with serious street cred asking if this symbolism thing was all it was cracked up to be.
I love the idea behind it - as an English major and bibliophile myself, hearing straight from the horses mouth that sometimes, words are just words, and sometimes symbolism comes organically, and sometimes people just read a whole hell of a lot into things that aren't there... well it's a nice treat.
Happy Chrismukkuh!