Jo hosted our July meeting. Along with tasty food, Jo provided her family of eagles to entertain those who ventured outside to look. Christe, Jo, Judy, Julie, Linda, Liz, and Nanc attended. Nanc was the only one in attendance who had finished reading Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins. Some were halfway through the book and others had not yet started. Those of us who'd read at least parts of the book agreed that the story line moved slowly as Robbins rambled (as Ellen had warned us). Despite that, there were some entertaining parts.
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| Jo's lovely yard and view of the river |
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| One of the now full-grown eaglets |
"There's birth, " he grumbled, "there's death, and in betweeen there's maintenance." ~ Tom Robbins
"And that's why when you've exhibited the slightest tendency towards self-importance, I've reminded you that you and me -- you and I: excuse me -- may be every bit as important as the president or the pope or the biggest prime-time icon in Hollywood, but none of us is much more than a pimple on the ass-end of creation, so let's not get carried away with ourselves. ~ Tom Robbins
~ Julie Howard
"I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees." ~ Tom Robbins
~ Nancy French
Next Book: A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Location: Julie's
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Time: 6:30pm
Upcoming meetings:
October 12, 2017 The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore at TBA
November 9, 2017 TBA
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
February 2017 - Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates
March 2017 - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
April 2017 - No book - meeting canceled
May 2017 - Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
June 2017 - The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier also watched The Girl with a Pearl Earring
July 13, 2017 - Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
August 2017 - No book - meeting canceled
