Our September 3rd lunch on the patio at The Barrel Room brings to mind Valerie's bruschetta caprese which is really very unfair to the discussion of our much loved "The Boys in the Boat". (I need to make dinner.) Everyone was so enthusiastic about the book; descriptions of races are seared into our memories with Daniel James Brown's masterful storytelling sealed with the endearment developed for Joe Rantz. We loved it all!
Valerie, fortified by her savory lunch, presented us each with a page of write-ups for her four suggestions for our January selection:
"One Plus One: A Novel" by JoJo Moyes
"The Invention of Wings" by Sue Monk Kidd
"The Romanov Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra" by Helen Rappaport
"Home Leave" by Brittani Sonnenberg *** chosen(not an easy decision)
The Slow Reading Club
Pictured above is a book club from Wellington, New Zealand. They meet weekly for an hour to merely be immersed in 'old-school reading'. Please explore this concept in the following:
http://online.wsj.com/articles/read-slowly-to-benefit-your-brain-and-cut-stress-1410823086
Does anyone want to do this? Intriguing.Next up: "Tell the Wolves I'm Home" for Wednesday October 1st.
Happy Reading (slow, dangerous, whatever!)
LK
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