Essence of Books Book Club educates and entertains with abnormally themed book club meetings, including their a lot of contempo acquisition wherein the associates relived the 60's and 70's in account of the club's called plan for the ages of March "Daughter Denied."
Los Angeles, CA -- Chatter and action abounding the air as the women of Essence of Books Book Club aggregate for their account meeting. "I adulation your afro!" Diana Glasgow, the architect of Essence of Books, tells a adolescent member. "I'm digging your bellbottoms!" the affiliate shouted back. Soon a choir of accolades and top fives rung out as the women adored the belvedere shoes, tie-dyed t-shirts, Dashikis and added cornball apparel and adornment from the 60's and 70's on display.
The host of this month's affair is Yolanda Oliver, a forty-something grandmother of three. Yolanda chose Alretha Thomas's admission atypical "Daughter Denied" www.Daughterdenied.com - a ancestors ball that takes abode in the backward 60's and 70's, as the book for the associates to apprehend in March. Essence of Books has a different attitude wherein they accompany books to activity by creating capacity for their affairs based on elements of the called work.
"I apparent "Daughter Denied" while at a book fair and afterwards account it, I couldn't delay to acquaint my adolescent book club associates about the book. It's told through the eyes of a advanced 7-year-old and her mother who's trapped in a co-dependent accord and on drugs. The mother promises to end the accord and the biologic use but never seems to stick to it. She again decides to crop the ancestors down south. The catechism again becomes, will the south be the Promise Land or just addition broken promise. The book had me going. Crying, laughing, you name it. It was the absolute book to present to the ladies of Essence of Books and I knew they would get a bang out of bathrobe up in 60's and 70's garb," said Yolanda a affiliate for eight years and an ardent clairvoyant back childhood.
Essence of Books, founded over a decade ago, is the abstraction of Diana Glasgow, a austere lover of books and a huge fan of Oprah Winfrey and the Oprah Winfrey Book Club. As a child, Diana, like Yolanda, admired books. "I couldn't abide after my books," Diana said with a laugh. I'm not afraid I concluded up creating a book club," she added. Diana says that the themed affairs animate associates to tap into their creativity. She says the affairs are fun as able-bodied as educational and at times can be a little risqué.
A few months ago, the women of Essence of Books were alien to pole dancing as a aftereffect of a affiliate allotment a book whose capital appearance poled danced. "We in actuality had anyone appear in to advise the ladies pole dancing. I can't bethink the endure time I had that abundant fun!" Diana exclaimed. "The Secret" was addition admired of Diana's and she recalls the accumulation watching the video as well. Yolanda recalled the time the club apprehend Big Boom's (of the Steve Harvey Show) book "If You Want Closure in Your Relationship Start With Your Legs." She said that she afraid the women by bringing in a console of men to acknowledgment accord questions. "It was a absolute abruptness and the women were in shock if I took them to accommodated the men."
Other affairs accept resulted in the women accommodating in activities alignment from cutting thongs to accommodating in wine tasting and one Christmas, afterwards account Kathleen Flinn's book, "The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry" Essence of Books associates created dishes from the recipes in the book for their anniversary Christmas Party.
What's next for this avant-garde club? Diana says the ladies are in the action of starting a mentoring program. The women of Essence of Books, alignment from aboriginal twenties to aboriginal fifties, are all able women who absolutely accept a lot to offer.
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