JUST ONE MORE DAY!

 

Just one more sleep until our Book Club officially begins!

Thank you to all who have agreed to join us on this fun journey back in time!

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One of our group members ordered the book and look what they made!

 

One of our book club members (Dacia)just made this wonderful gingerbread from the Samantha cook book.

  " While searching online for Samantha Mystery books for Karenmomofthrees book club reading, I ran across this Samantha cookbook. I paid $4.50 for it and I just love it. It has recipes from Samantha's time along with descriptions of what was expected at the dinner table and so on. I told my daughter she could pick any recipe from the book, and we would make it. She loves gingerbread so that is what she choose to make. It turned out perfectly! I was really impressed."

I just love that this wonderful book second hand is still wowing readers! 

Pick up  a book and start a journey! Pick up Samantha's cook book and travel back in time and taste!

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Please add my photo to your blog or site to let people know about our group!

 

Please feel free to "grab this photo image" for your blog or website to let people know about our  group.

I am working of a "Grab my button" format but I am still in the learning stage! 

I am so excited to have all of you join me on this journey!

Thank you,

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Less then 1 week to the start of our book club!

 

I am so excited that our book club beings in one week! I am sitting here with my copy of The Curse of Ravenscourt and my favorite mug of Hot Chocolate!

I was in the American Girl store in Seattle on Sunday and got the 4th book of the Samantha series and am so excited to see how nice they look on my shelf!

I love books, I did not always as some of you know.

My mother was an avid reader, not one room in the house did not have floor to ceiling bookshelves lined with hard copies of books my mother read and collected. I think she would have been so proud of me for having a book club and for the amount of American Girl Books I have now collected and am reading my way through. My mother loved a good deal on books and while I was in the USA on the weekend my sister Bre-Anne (My most favorite person to shop thrift stores with) and I found over 20 AG books for my collection.

My Favorite was the mystery books I got, one of them a Molly Mystery I paid only 69 cents for. The least I paid for one of the books was only 25 cents almost a steal! The most expensive one was 79 cents! 

My sister also allowed me to borrow the three books my nieces got when they bought the full sized dolls:

McKenna, Rebeca and Marie-Grace

I have a lot of fun reading ahead of me and I hope you will join me in reading through the mystery books!

Remember to let me know how you are doing with the book and comment often and ask questions!

I am looking forward to hearing from you soon!

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So excited to read through the Samantha Mystery Series!

 

Today I am so happy to report that I now have all four Samantha Mysteries and I am so looking forward to reading through them. I hope that you will like me be hooked on the American Girl Mystery Series books and join us as we read The Curse of Ravenscourt 

  Starting February 1st and every few days after that I will post some questions for discussion on the 3 chapters at a time. 

It is my hope that you will all enjoy these books as I have and join me in discussing them in the comment section of each post. 

I am so excited to now have all 4 of the Samantha Mysteries

I just added the 4th book The Cry of the Loon, from the American Girl Store in Seattle. I had such a great time visiting the store yesterday with my nieces and enjoying the day with my nieces and my sisters. 

Here I am with 4 of my 5 nieces in the book section at the American Girl store. I picked up my copy of

 

The Cry of the Loon and can not wait to get to it and read it with you all.

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Welcome to Samantha's World

I found this book on Amazon.com where you can pick up copies of this book second hand from $2.00
I love the cover art and am on the look out for this book in my travels to the library and second hand books in my area.
Now if you do not have a Samantha doll and are looking for one, you can  try www.dollabee.com and try your luck at finding her in 18 inch size.

But if you are looking for the 6 inch doll  you can find her for under $15 at Amazon.com

I also under stand that if you are a member at Costco and Sam's club there is a great deal of all the regular  series books and the mini doll, for under $40. A very good deal if you can come by it!

American Girl  also offers the Samantha movie for under $14 if you are looking to add it to your collection or check your local library, to see if you can borrow it and get into the spirit of the early 1900's getting a visual idea of what the world looked like during the time our first book club selection takes place. 

 

Please let me know if you are having a hard time locating our first selection, I hope that most of you now have the book and are excited to start our book club discussion February 3rd.

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Feed your mind with reading and some treats from Samantha's time with her cook book

While researching Samantha's time period, I came across a Samantha cookbook that was published in 1994.
This 44 page soft covered book that contains recipes and information about dining in the 1900's.
It is out of print from what I can tell but looks like it would be a great resource and fun cookbook!

Some of the recipes included are Strawberries and Cream, Saratoga Potatoes, Blueberry Muffins, Cream of Carrot soup (a favorite of mine) , Corn Oysters, Ice Cream Snowballs, Apple Brown Betty, Chicken Salad Sandwiches, Gingerbread and Lemon Ice.

 

I have not been able to find a copy of my own of this book but I am looking for one! 

I have linked the recipe names above to on line recipes so if you can not find a copy of your own and you still want to give a try to some recipes from the 1900's you have them easily accessible.

I am so enjoying researching Samantha's time period, and I hope you will join us Feb 1st for our first book 

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