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.
October 31--Wright Brothers
At our September 26th meeting, we discussed The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani. We all really liked the characters in the novel and the hardwork ethic they displayed. We also liked getting a glimpse of this prominent immigration era in U.S. history. Even though the author has a cookbook, Cooking with My Sisters, we didn't use any of her family recipes. We had instead potica (Ciro's favorite and mentioned multiple times in the book) and borlenghi for refreshments.
John Adams for October 24th book group
Please note that the next book group will be Monday, October 24th at 6:30 PM in the Library's Turner Room. We moved the meeting up a week so that we would not conflict with the local Halloween activities on October 31.
July 2011-December 2011
Join us for the “Talk About a Good Book” Book Club Discussion Group. We usually meets last Monday of the month at 6:30pm in Turner Room at the Lillie M. Evans Library in Princeville. The calendar for the rest of 2011 includes (for information about the book click on the title):
July 18* Twenties Girl by Sophia Kinsella
Aug 29 Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Sept 26 World and Town by Gish Jen
Oct 24* John Adams by David McCullough
Nov 28 Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
NO MEETING in December – HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
*Please note the date for our July and October meetings do not follow our normal schedule but are a week earlier.
A printable version of this schedule is available in .pdf
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