A Lovely Evening Up River

We had a delightful evening hosted by Lisa, tucked away in the forest 22 miles up river.  Wonderful meal (including country ham and fresh Angel biscuits), great conversation and an interesting discussion about our interesting book - "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky. 

This is a thouroughly researched work that everyone was glad to have read.  Each one of us learned new things about the world's history of which we were previously unaware.  However, we did not come up with a rating for this book.  Maybe we were too relaxed to give it much thought!  I'm not sure, but I was also not sure what rating I would have given it.  I felt it was a very worthy read, but this subject didn't lend itself to character and story development as so many other books do.  Everyone struggled a bit with trying to picture the timeline of events as the author chose to break chapters down by culture instead of keeping events in historic order.  We all found that, once we disregarded the exact date and only focused on the general aspect of the date (what century things occurred), the book flowed better and one was able to pay attention to the interesting tid-bits of knowledge and the recipes. 

Lisa announced that she will not be able to continue with our book club on a regular basis which was a disappointment to us all.  She did say that she may be able to join us from time to time on future reads, but found that she currently has too many things that need her attention.  We will miss Lisa as one of our regulars and hope that she is able to participate with one of our selections soon.