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Ladies of the Club!

September 26, 2018 By Talya Tate Boerner 10 Comments

Last week, I was invited to join the Ladies of the Club book club to talk about The Accidental Salvation of Gracie Lee. Having a book club select my book AND being invited to attend is one of the best things about being an author!

Oh my word, what a fantastic event.

Ladies of the Club
If we were living in 1918 rather than 2018, this event would be reported in the society pages of the Daily Arkansas Gazette. You know what I mean? There was a time when everything social was printed in the newspaper.

Humor me for a moment and let’s pretend, shall we?

(Of course in 1918, my name would officially be Mrs. John Boerner and Ellon’s name would be Mrs. [insert husband’s first name] Cockrill…)

Thank you Ladies of the Club! I am honored to have been invited and so happy you are fans of Gracie Lee.

My Delta Sky bowl made in Dumas, Arkansas by Miller’s Mud Mill:

thumb bowl

Two things I’d like everyone to know:

  1. Even though this event was worthy of the society pages, please don’t think Ladies of the Club was a snooty, highfalutin book club. It was anything but. This was one of the friendliest, most welcoming book club group I’ve attended!
  2. Please don’t compare your book club to the Ladies of the Club. I am thrilled to attend any and all book clubs with food served on paper plates or no food at all. Invite me to talk about Gracie Lee at your favorite beer bar with crackerjacks, and you can bet I’ll be there with bells on.

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Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

[tweetthis]I’m in the Dem Gazette Society Pages. Sort of. @ArkansasOnline[/tweetthis]

P.S. Technically the Arkansas Gazette succeeded the Daily Arkansas Gazette in 1889.

Musical Pairing:

1918 Top of the Charts: Nick LaRocca and The Original Dixieland Jazz Band – Tiger Rag

Filed Under: Reading & Books, Simple Pleasures Tagged With: book club, Little Rock, society pages, The Accidental Salvation of Gracie Lee

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Comments

  1. Colene says

    September 26, 2018 at 1:17 pm

    I do remember those society posts. Yes, I’m that old. Haha

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      September 26, 2018 at 2:19 pm

      Me too! Home town papers still do it I think!

      Reply
  2. Jenny Young says

    September 26, 2018 at 3:21 pm

    Home town papers do still have society pages. In Siloam Springs our garden club meetings are in the paper every month with a picture. And we do sound pretty snooty…’Primavera Garden club’ but we have the best time & really get very little gardening done!

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      September 27, 2018 at 2:08 pm

      Sounds like a club I would love!

      Reply
  3. Dorothy Johnson says

    September 26, 2018 at 3:36 pm

    The Searcy Daily Citizen had that sort of column and were always eager for news. It might list my mother’s trip to Little Rock to visit her sister for day or someone being on the Dean’s List.

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      September 27, 2018 at 2:08 pm

      Yes, out of town visitors always made for big news!

      Reply
  4. Nancy Moix says

    September 26, 2018 at 4:54 pm

    Love, love that your writeup came under the heading of the Arkansas Gazette! That other paper was a dirty word in our house growing up. Love this!!!

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      September 27, 2018 at 2:10 pm

      Thank you!

      Reply
  5. Cuzin Ken says

    September 26, 2018 at 9:59 pm

    Talya, I know your next book is not about Gracie Lee, but I sure do wish your 3rd book would be about her. Ha! There is so much you could fill us in on G L. What has happened to her since? Also are parts of Gracie autobiographical? I could just see G L as a real person and she looked just like you.

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      September 27, 2018 at 2:09 pm

      But of course parts of Gracie are autobiographical:)

      Reply

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Hi! I'm Talya. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Baylor graduate. Author of

THE ACCIDENTAL SALVATION OF GRACIE LEE (2016)

GENE, EVERYWHERE: a life-changing visit from my father-in-law (2020)

BERNICE RUNS AWAY (Oct '22)

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