You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

Hap­py Hol­i­days, Book
Club­bers!
What a won­der­ful year for the Lit­er­ary Guild of Mt.
Pleas­ant, y’all!
As we get ready to head into the new mil­len­ni­um, I think we can all
look back and say that our 12th year was tru­ly the best one yet for our
book club. Who knows what the future will bring, but as you spend
time with your loved ones this hol­i­day sea­son I hope you enjoy
reflect­ing on all the great books we read in 1999. And if you don’t
mind, and have the time, may this lit­tle poem help you rewind!
We learned a lot this past year
About hor­ror, ter­ror, mur­der, fear.
We learned about There­sa Knorr, a real bad moth­er,
And also we learned a lot about each oth­er.
Jhanteigh Kupi­hea turned out to be a good talk­er
On Philip Carlo’s book, The Night Stalk­er.
We had a won­der­ful dis­cus­sion of And Nev­er Let Her Go
Con­duct­ed by our own Nicole De Jack­mo.
Using dia­grams and pic­tures, artist Andie Reid
Made us won­der whose child was the real Bad Seed.
And after two years of ask­ing by Kate McGuire
We’re all glad we final­ly read Inter­view with the Vam­pire,
Although we will admit Mon­e­ka Hewlett caused us all angi­na
By insist­ing we read Bas­tard out of Car­oli­na.
Rick Chillot summed up our Octo­ber book best,
When he said, “Nobody’s per­fect, but at least we aren’t Fred or
Rose­mary West.”
Then Julia, Kat, and Ann Hen­drix, our sis­ters three,
Had a lot to say about The Killer Inside Me.
As the last cen­tu­ry scur­ries away,
We real­ly musn’t for­get to say
Thank you, also, to Amy J. Schnei­der, our favorite gram­mar­i­an,
And let’s not for­get Becky Sprat­ford, num­ber one librar­i­an.
Of course, behind every woman there’s a man, usu­al­ly some­where
park­ing the car or ask­ing why there isn’t any rice on the table, and
sev­er­al in par­tic­u­lar went above and beyond this year, so big hugs to
Joshua Bilmes, Adam Gold­worm, Jason Reku­lak, Brett Cohen, and
Doo­gie Horner for all their sup­port, and for stay­ing out of the way
when book club descend­ed on their hous­es like a bar­bar­ian horde.
We couldn’t have fin­ished all these books with­out you, fel­las!
Let’s also not for­get some of the won­der­ful peo­ple who pro­vid­ed
spe­cial snacks this year like David Bor­genicht, John McGurk, Mary
Ellen Wil­son, Jane Mor­ley, Mandy Dunn Samp­son, Christi­na
Schillaci, Megan DiPasquale, Kate Brown, and Mol­ly Mur­phy.
And final­ly, a big thank you to the Lit­er­ary Guild of Greater
Charleston, who have been a part of my life for as long as I can
remem­ber: Suzy Barr, Helen Cooke, Eva Fitzger­ald, Kit­ty How­ell,
Croft Lane, Lucille Keller, Cathy Holmes, Valerie Papadopou­los,
Stephanie Hunt, Nan­cy Fox, Ellen Gow­er, and, of course, Shirley
Hen­drix. May you all keep on read­ing for many years to come!
See you on the oth­er side of Y2K!