11/09/2012
Hello friends,
We’ll be meeting next Thursday, Nov. 15th at Tierney’s, on Main St. in Old Town Lewisville at 7pm as always.
Come to chat about “Caleb’s Crossing” by Geraldine Brooks. A book I thought would be interesting but has truly captured my imagination (esp. the protagonist, Bethia) as I’m ¾’s near finishing it!
We’ll figure out what fine, fun holiday field trip we’ll have too, so come with ideas for a local show or a downtown evening.
**Start amassing your picks for the 2013 reading list so we can vote come January! I’ve got some good ones to get us going but you guys know what you want to read by now-ish!! **
Next up for January: “The Marriage Plot” by Jeffrey Eugenides 416 pages, in libraries, about $10 or less online
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: Even among authors, Jeffrey Eugenides possesses a rare talent for being able to inhabit his characters. In The Marriage Plot, his third novel and first in ten years (following the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex), Eugenides describes a year or so in the lives of three college seniors at Brown in the early 80s. There is Madeleine, a self-described “incurable romantic” who is slightly embarrassed at being so normal. There is Leonard, a brilliant, temperamental student from the Pacific Northwest. And completing the triangle is Mitchell, a Religious Studies major from Eugenides’ own Detroit. What follows is a book delivered in sincere and genuine prose, tracing the end of the students’ college days and continuing into those first, tentative steps toward true adulthood. This is a thoughtful and at times disarming novel about life, love, and discovery, set during a time when so much of life seems filled with deep portent.
Happy Fall, ya’ll—RSVP por favor,
Nancy Fuller 817-368-4337
