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| Coat of arms for Uganda |
Dear Bookclub,
Ambitiously taking on discussion of both the November and December book selections in one fell swoop while on our 'girls' trip*, I decided I'd better sit up and take notice of the task at hand. "The Atlas of Forgotten Places" is described as "A moving, fictionalized account of real-life horrors in Africa" :xhttp://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/bookreview/the-atlas-of-forgotten-places-a-novel
My shallow googling quickly took me to Wikipedia's rundown on Uganda. And Idi Amin. Here is one of his quote's which surprisingly sounds like something that our current leader should say:
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
I am leading us astray from Jenny D. Williams' work and my task at hand. With Thanksgiving reality looming, I decided to load an audible of "The Atlas of Forgotten Places" only to be stopped short - it doesn't exist. I noticed upon further inspection that reviews of the book were few and a bit obscure. One really caught my attention - that of the Del Mar Times:
https://www.delmartimes.net/art/books/sd-cm-nc-globe-novel-20170622-htmlstory.html
I will read Williams' Atlas and listen to Kristen Hannah's "The Great Alone".
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| Hannah and her family moving to the Pacific Northwest |
Please enjoy Kristin Hannah's February 2018 Newsletter Blog when her book was released:
https://kristinhannah.com/newsletter/february-2018/
Suggestions for upcoming reads:
from Val,
"The Library Book" Susan Orlean
"An American Marriage" Tayari Jones
"On Sunset" Katheryn Harrison
from TG.
"Virgil Wander" Leif Enger
"Where the Crawdads Sing" Delia Owens
"being Mortal" Atul Gawande
So looking forward to our upcoming trip!
Happy reading,
LK
*This somehow implies we will just be lounging around eating, drinking, talking, spa-ing, shopping, hiking, talking and talking some more. Oh yes, that's correct.
