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6 days ago
Well, I was overwhelmed by my life again. I got busy and didn't enter close enough to the event to keep all the details of the interactions. The further into the past the less I recall. Sorry. The second to last book was People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. We met at Maggie & Jim's. All was as it always is at our meetings: good talk about the book, and food and drink. Bob H. picked a good one, which blended history and imaginary filling in the facts with what the author made up. The end was a bit implausible, but it made a good story out of dry history. The last book was in a caboodle Judy discovered at the library. She got us a book bag filled with copies for everyone. The details are on the Pima library website. Purple Hibiscus, by Chimanda Ngozi Adichie was the book. We had a small group at Dave and Jackie's. They made a great variety of foods, and drink available. As usual the UA game was competing for most of our member's attention. Most of us enjoyed the ...
69 days ago
This is a tough book about music. If you want to know everything about music this is for you.
70 days ago
at Deanna's. Perhaps, as Jim said it was too long, but it was fleshed out so as to make a dry story a personal one. We saw what happens when someone brings home a book and her husband picks it up, and likes it enough to make it his recommendation to the club. I think we all liked the skillful job of work done on the eminent domain subject. Deanna put on a skillful job of work on the snacks, including a cheesecake. Pat said she was dropping out, and maybe we will consider it a sabattical. This was a good choice for us, thanks Dave, and we learned from the book, and enjoyed our fraternity as discussors of books, and the fun of it was a reminder of the best of our what our group can be. Sue' already into People of the Book, an we have Phantom ready to go too. I just finished Fanon on CD. It's a very different style of book which blends biography, and a personal memoir with poetry. I recommend it.
91 days ago
I do. However, I didn't at first. This book is very meticulously researched, as the author pointed out. Initially I bought into the right of eminent domain. The supporters were the right wing gun nuts... but as the book continued to reveal the situation, and the players, I saw the abuses in eminent domain for economic reasons-to get a higher tax paying taxpayer, or for economically depressed jurisdictions. There are many examples of the abuses nationwide, and hopefully government abuses will get reined in, no credit to the supreme court, by concerned citizens. Regarding the local New London situation what made the book a rewarding experience was that the author helped me get to know the characters, on both sides. The knowing made even the 'villians' into known quantities who could be booed, just as we cheer for the 'good guys'. The issue of eminent domain gradually became intelligible, and relevant. It is like we react to a car accident, differently depending on whether we are ...
93 days ago
I just finished 'The Number' by Alex Berenson. It's all about the financial crash before the last one. We might have seen the last one coming if we read this book. Since writing 'The Number' Berenson has written novels, which is how I learned of him. I like the novels too. Currently I'm reading his 'The Faithful Spy'. It would be easy to say his main character could hold his own with Crais' Joe Pike. And not for the reasons you may guess-check it out.
