August 2016 Bookclub

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Dear Bookclub,
Sally Mann's "Hold Still" has much to share but I have yet to find any stillness. Riddled with memories and philosophies that both disquiet and harmonize any attempt to relate, Mann's memoir will resonate. I adore it at 45 pages deep. Her description of the effects of photographs on memory struck like lightning as I recalled her 2015 interview with Terry Gross:

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/12/405937803/making-art-out-of-bodies-sally-mann-reflects-on-life-and-photography

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Next Wednesday: Terry's 12:30.....

“I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.” – Sally Mann


View, read and think,
LK

Larry Mann; "Proud Flesh"

July 2016 Recap

Dear Bookclub,
Facing the summer challenge head-on, we convened hours after two of us passed through Lindbergh Field, one of us was still sequestered in Deer Valley, (we missed you TG!), Ginger's schedule a smidge off course, (one day :( ),  and the rest were prepping for other seasonal delights. Cork and Craft, coddling our two hour 'lunch', was a fine backdrop for an enthusiastic exchange on Oliver Sacks.

Lunch a la Oliver*

*(That is a scandium hamburger - {gluten-free}. Actually this is lifted from a very entertaining description of a chemistry party, "A Visit from Oliver Sacks".... really you have to peruse this:
http://www.theodoregray.com/Periodictable/Stories/SacksVisit/index.html
How dull our gatherings are in comparison!)

Also, I wanted to share this lovely article from February 2015 that is Oliver Sacks, in his own words, on his getting cancer. It makes me cry every time I read it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/oliver-sacks-on-learning-he-has-terminal-cancer.html?_r=0


Wanda presented three titles for our November selection:

"Mademoiselle Chanel" C.W. Gortner        *chosen

"Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWI Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pacific" Bill Lascher

"Missing, Presumed" Susie Steiner


Discussion about December's get-away was broadened (a bit!) to entertaining the idea of venturing to La Jolla. I'd also like to throw out the idea of going to The Huntington or the Mission Inn in Riverside. Any other ideas? Shall we vote?

http://www.missioninn.com/festival-en.html
http://www.huntington.org/

Happy Reading!
LK