Thursday, April 15, 2010

ANYONE...STILL...OUT...THERE?!!!

Ok, I know I am breaking from our format, and it has been a REALLY long time since anyone has posted. But I'm trying to change that!I've been a little preoccupied with my family's newest addition, but we are finding our new "normal" (along with a few extra hours of sleep since Dylan only gets up now once a night- woo hoo!) and I have found some time for myself to actually read! I know the Vince Antonucci book was suppose to be for the month of March, and it's now April, but I FINALLY started his book last night. I couldn't put it down! And anyone who has had a baby will tell you that this book had to be something special for me to give up a half-hour of sleep to keep reading! I am SO excited to read the rest of the book. It just seems different from a lot of other Christian books I've picked up over the years.
Any thoughts on I Became a Christian and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt?
I'll post more as I keep reading, but anyone is welcome to leave a comment! We would love to hear your thoughts on the book, even if you haven't finished it yet!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

"We don't die, we multiply!"

No, we didn't die and forget about our loyal readers (okay, READER) we were literally multiplying. One of us was busy having a baby. Please meet the newest Brewed Awakening member, Dylan Gabriel Groblewski. Isn't he handsome and lovely and all dreamy like a new born should be! So, now that Dylan is here the party can get started right!

We are thrilled to get started again, and with a new format that is going to be a little different, but a lot of fun. We are making our book group more flexible, and hopefully, available to more women. Instead of taking a slow pace, we're going to leave the pace up to you. Brewed Awakening will feature a different book each month. It's up to you how fast or slowly you would like to read it. If you want to sit down and gobble it all up in one weekend, fantastic! But if you prefer to delicately pick over each and every word, feel free. We'll be here when you're done.

In addition, Brewed Awakening is all about celebrating great books and great authors, so at the end of each month we will celebrate our book. We will have a very informal gathering at a restaurant or a home or at the park to chat about our featured book --- the lines that made us cry, the insights that made us giggle, and the chapters that made us want to throw the book in the trash! We'll discuss it all while enjoying something yummy, I'm sure, with good friends and hopefully inspiring literature.

We will post all the upcoming events on the blog calendar (coming soon) as well as chat and discussions about each book. We love the book we've been reading by Nicole Johnson, so we will definitely be finishing it. See the side bar for a list of our featured books for the next two months.