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Dear Bookclub,
Amazingly discovering unknown facts and concepts in Graham Moore's "The Last Days of Night", the theme developed, as we amazingly discovered the fact that the Veranda was not truly open at 3:30 pm for our tea & 'tea' bookclub. As boldly as an Agnes Huntington, Fanny or Marguerite Westinghouse, we settled ourselves into a Veranda corner after storming the bar to spin the napping servers' heads with requests of chamomile tea and a bottle of wine. So began the discussion.
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| https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/10/tesla-quotes_n_7771358.html |
Aside, favorite quote from Tesla:
"The female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress."
Back to our meeting: Layers of history and character development, shaken with a novelist's constructs, produced a forgiving collection, described at the end of the book, of 'what was real'. Initially put-off by the idea that any of Moore's telling was a fabrication, the reasoning and weight of fact to fiction became understood and accepted. Validation of what was needed to create an historical narrative was embraced by all. We are brighter for it.
Val's suggestions for an upcoming read:
"Young Jane Young" Gabrielle Zevin
"Little Fires Everywhere" Celeste Ng* chosen
"Rule of Capture" Ona Russell
"Ramblings with My Family, starting in China" Wendy Maitland
Up next:
adventures in Palm Springs Paradise via Candice Millard's "Hero of the Empire".
LK
