Boekrak Launch

Boekrak, our brand new book club, was launched on a cold wintery night, Thursday 28 June 2011 at the Casa Restaurant at Willowbridge.

The following ladies braved the cold and pitched for this inaugural meeting
Meryl Awkes
Karin Baatjes
Vania Cloete-Collison
Cordelia Jacobs
Ilse Mathys
Tania Mathys

(Henlene Barends was unfortunately in Angola at time)

The following rules for book club were agreed upon by the ladies:
1. Book club meetings will take place every 6weeks or as agreed upon by all members.
2. All members must read the assigned book prior to the meeting. Everyone's opinion counts.
3. The host leads the discussion and provides drinks,if in a restaurant,the host will buy the first round of drinks. The host will decide the theme of the event.
4. All members are to source own copy of the book,keeping libraries and book exchanges in mind.
5. Any topic is allowed,afrikaans and english.
6. At 6 monthly intervals a poetry evening will be held,5 poems will be selected and distributed prior and will be discussed at the meeting.
7. Book launches and similar events will be attended as extra events.

The order of meetings are :
2 Sept - Karin
21 Oct - Ilse

Therafter : Tania,Vania,Cordelia,Henlene,

Meryl.

The book club wishes to donate children's books to school libraries. This will be discussed further at the next meeting.

The members then agreed on a name for the book club. Hereafter and henceforth to be referred to exclusively as Boekrak!!

Lekka Lees almal.