In addition to the great company and conversation, the neat thing about our group is no one has to cook or clean up, and no one has to do homework. We each choose our own books and discuss eloquently. Ten of us today has a fantastic meet-up!
Our first event of the year, a murder mystery dinner, took place at The Rope Factory. We 5 amateur sleuths attempted to discover “who done it”
while being entertained and enjoying a delicious meal.
Angela H, a long time walking group participant, is moving away, and so Mieke kindly hosted a coffee gathering for us to with Angela the best. We gave her a giant hug and best wishes for her new adventures!
We read so many! And there seems to be an Elizabeth Strout frenzy in progress! Such a fantastic author! Two of our members read more than one of her books since we last met. Four members are currently fans …. and it is CONTAGIOUS!
Memoirs, golden oldies, and so much more!
Nora’s Olive accompanied us on yesterday’s walk, and even though we encountered many dogs along the trail, she did not woof! A beautiful day for a walk!
We had such a great meeting and such great books to talk about. Norah O was totally captivated with Isola. Two others in our group have already read it, and heartily agree with her assessment. After reading The Things We Never Say, Jeanne C was so entranced that she went on to read Olive Kitteridge and the other novels by Strout featuring Olive Kitteridge. Two others in our group had read and loved The Things We Never Say, so will now have these other books to look forward to. Jeanne also let us know about the mini series (which is available on Crave) and a lot of us will be watching it.
Marian W brought a fascinating book of a century of obituaries of famous women. It’s the kind of book you could get lost in. Very interesting. Natalie P has begun to read in order the Tim Sullivan novels, which she assesses as very well-written mysteries. Leslie L has been doing the same thing with Donna Leon novels.
Rena R told us about Arundhati Roy’s newest book, Mother Mary Comes to Me, which she says, is like a memoir of the author’s, but framed through the filter of her relationship with her mother. Rena loved the book.
Marsha S shared two spanking new books, Exit Party, by St John Mandel (pub date Sept 15th) which is set in a futuristic dystopia that sounds all too familiar, and Malcolm Gladwell’s newest book The American Way of Killing (pub date Sept 30) which she says is Gladwell’s classic informative storytelling and a must-read.
Sometimes a heron will aim right for your camera!
Would you eat this fungus? It is actually edible (Chicken of the Woods), and another walker (not from our group) snipped a bit of it off to take home and eat, I wonder how she dealt with the POISON IVY that surely had rubbed all over it!
