Nice to see everyone who made it to the Entiat Pub-n-Grub for our January meeting. With two books to review and a new meeting schedule to decide, we certainly had a lot to discuss.
The Christmas Jars by Jason F Wright was our holiday read. We found this book sad but also uplifting as it illustrates the goodness in people's hearts goes around. It is a reminder that every day we should write a note of what you are grateful for. Maureen came up with the wonderful idea of starting our own book club Christmas jar. We all contributed our change and dollars and will do the same each time we meet. At our December meeting we will decide what to do with what we have collected.
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens was our other book to review. Some of us found the "nearly impossible reality of the main character being able to self-teach herself with a little reading help from her friend" (Judy B) a disappointing aspect of the story, but we enjoyed the author's beautiful descriptions of the marsh and the creatures that lived there and found the story compelling with an unexpected ending. "We are shaped by the children we once were."
Here is the meeting schedule we have set up for 2020:
March 5th at Maureen's home review "Cutting for Stone"
April 23rd at Chris M's home review "I'll Push You"
June 4th at Chris P's home review "The Library Book"
NO MEETINGS in July and August
September 10th at Debbie G's home review "Educated"
November 19th at Judy S's home review "Me Before You"
December 10th at Claudia's home review Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory"
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