Dead Sleep

Okay- I am going to break one of my rules, I am skipping the blog for Christmas, 2002 (waiting on some recipes from fellow booksters) and I am moving on to January 2003.

Attention: the book club meeting for January 2003 will never be topped!!! We read Dead Sleep by Greg Iles…

Barnes and Noble reports:
Jordan Glass, a photojournalist on a well-earned vacation, wanders into a Hong Kong art museum and is puzzled to find fellow patrons eying her with curiosity. Minutes later, she stumbles upon a gallery containing a one-artist exhibition called "The Sleeping Women," a mysterious series of paintings that has caused a sensation in the world of modern art. Collectors have come to believe that the canvases depict female nudes not in sleep but in death, and they command millions at auction. When Jordan approaches the last work in the series, she freezes. The face in the painting seems to be her own.
This unsettling event hurls her back into a nightmare she has fought desperately to put behind her - for, in fact, the face in the painting belongs not to Jordan but to her twin sister, murdered one year ago. At the urging of the FBI, Jordan becomes both hunter and hunted in a duel with the anonymous artist, a gifted murderer who knows the secret history of Jordan's family, and truths that even she has never had the courage to face.

Now, as I have told you before, our book club goes all out to make our meeting an experience to remember. But this one ...we all came to Debbie's home, started enjoying appetizers and chit-chat. Suddenly someone noticed Debbie's hall was filled with, not pictures of smiling family, but pictures of us as nudes, posing in her hall gallery!!! Someone very accomplished with printshop had transferred our faces to copies of various famous nude paintings!! (If they weren't x-rated, I would put some pictures here). It was so hilarious and unexpected, even for Debbie and Joanne. ( I think Alisa was the additional culprit if I remember correctly.)

Needless to say, after laughing for hours, we were ready to eat the delicious reprise of Debbie H's shrimp and bowtie pasta (recipe in an earlier blog, you can use my search on this page) and wonderful Cat Head biscuits (the story behind the name- the biscuits are supposed to be as big as a cat's head, but Debbie made mini ones)

Debbie H's Cat Head Biscuits

1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese softened
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup self rising flour

Beat cream cheese and butter at medium speed of an electric mixer 2 minutes or until creamy. Gradually add flour, beating at low speed just until blended.

Spoon dough into ungreased miniature (1 3/4- in.) muffin pans, filling full. Do not grease pans. Bake at 400  for 15 to 17 minutes or until golden. Serve hot. Yield's 1 1/2 doz.
Delicious and so easy!


The door prize was an IV bag (have to read the book to understand)

Next month's selection was One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus- but we only had 11 in attendance...ha ha....