Showing posts with label Doerr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doerr. Show all posts
December 12th Coffee Chat
At our November 28 bookgroup, we discussed All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Several members of our group loved the book, but others thought that moving back and forth in the timeline was distracting. Overall, we felt it was a good pick but a bit too literary for our tastes. We had Peach Dump Cake with ice cream.
The group also finished picking our titles for next year:
2017 (Our 14th year)
January 30
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Kelly, Martha Hall
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February 27
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Roberts, Cokie
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March 27
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Crais, Robert
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April 24
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Gilbert, Elizabeth
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May 22
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Horowitz, Anthony
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June 26
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Scalzi, John
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July 31
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Roach, Mary
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August 28
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Benjamin, Melanie
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September 25
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Hood,
Ann
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October 30
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Kiernan, Denise
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November 27
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Hannah, Kristin
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December 11th @ 3pm —Coffee Chat about your
favorite books of 2017
& get our new list for 2018
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Our next meeting will be our Coffee Chat on Monday, December 12th at 3pm. We'll discuss our favorite books in 2016 and pick up the January title. Feel free to bring an appetizer or dessert (although it is not required!)
November 28 - All the Light We Cannot See
At our October 31st bookgroup, we discussed the Wright Brothers by David McCullough. We liked that the book focused mostly on the Wright brothers' efforts leading up to their first flights and demonstrations. This made the book manageable. I used my two Elizabeth City, NC cookbooks to make NC Sweet Potato Pie and Pecan Squares for refreshments.
Summary: Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. Interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
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