We met at Christe's house for our January meeting to discuss About Grace by Anthony Doerr. Christe provided delectable soup and many other tasty snacks as we visited and caught up with each others' lives. Annie, Christe, Ellen, Jo, Judy, Julie, Kathy, and Nanc were in attendance.
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| I forgot to take a photo from Christe's, so I'm using this one taken in November of Steve and Christe walking on 1st Street for this month's water view photo |
I enjoyed About Grace. I like the way Anthony Doerr takes ordinary people and shares their extraordinary lives in his creative writing.
~ Linda Jenkins
“Answers seemed to float through the space around him. It was about love. It was about getting handed at conception a gift that sets you apart from everyone and you spend your whole life drifting through the margins of time, not understanding hours like everyone else seems to: glancing at wristwatches, checking timetables - you hardly know what it is people are trying to accomplish when they go through their days: morning, noon, evening, night. Wake up and sleep and wake up. This was about family, how blood superseded death; it was about trying your hardest, it was about snow.” ~ Anthony Doerr
~ Kathy Day-Carey
Next Book: Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates
Location: The Hotel after attending the Library Film Series movie, Florence Foster Jenkins
Date: Thursday, February 9, 2017
Time: 6:00pm
Upcoming meetings:
March 9, 2017 Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at Annie's
April 13, 2017 Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger at Kathy's
Books we've read so far:
April 13, 2017 Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger at Kathy's
May 11, 2017 Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier at Jo's
June 8, 2017 TBA at Linda's
Books we've read so far:
January 2014 - Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
February 2014 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
March 2014 - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
April 2014 - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
May 2014 - The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
June 2014 - Breaking Free by Marilyn Sewell
July 2014 - The Orphan Train by Kristina Baker Kline
August 2014 - The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
September 2014 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
October 2014 - The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
November 2014 - The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
December 2014 - No book. Holiday gathering.
January 2015 - No book. Watched The Book Thief
February 2015 - The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
March 2015 - Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
April 2015 - The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
May 2015 - The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
June 2015 - The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
July 2015 - Still Alice by Lisa Genova
August 2015 - The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
September 2015 - Ruby by Cynthia Bond
October 2015 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
November 2015 - No book. Watched To Kill a Mockingbird
December 2015 - No book. Holiday gathering.
January 2016 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
February 2016 - Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
March 2016 - Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
April 2016 - Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
May 2016 - Jewelweed by David Rhodes
June 2016 - One Woman's River by Ellen Kolbo McDonah
July 2016 - Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
August 2016 - Deep Water Passage by Ann Linnea
September 2016 - This Road I Ride by Juliana Buhring
October 2016 - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
November 2016 - No book. Watched The Boys of '36
December 2016 - No book. Holiday gathering.
January 2017 - About Grace by Anthony Doerr
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