Chasing Fireflies by Charles Martin

In celebration of the one year anniversary of the Firefly Book Club, we decided to keep the theme going by choosing a book with "firefly" in the title....which is harder than it sounds! Some of us were already familiar with author Charles Martin, and we went with his "Chasing Fireflies".

Also in honor of our very first book discussion, (see Kristin Hannah's "Firefly Lane"), we dressed in "firefly blue". We had a blast taking several quizzes that focused on the 10 books that we read in our first year together. We tested our memories to see how many book quotes we could match to the character/book they were from, as well as how many songs we could match up with the book it was mentioned in. We also reminisced about our favorite book club memories of the year.

As a special memento, we created a recipe book to give to each member containing food/drinks featured at each meeting. TIP: if you decide to try this, we suggest you work on it throughout the year by typing up recipes and making copies as you go along so it doesn't become an enormous project at the end of the year.

Cook Book



We did make sure we also made time to discuss our first book of the year! The most prominently featured food item in "Chasing Fireflies" is Moon Pies, and we had a good time with this! We had several store bought varieties on hand, as well as a super yummy homemade version that will definitely be a part of our next cook book. Since we like to stay true to our book, we had a bottle of whiskey just in case anyone wanted a swig…he he. This book had some great discussion questions and turned out to be a great book club pick!