January 2018-One in a Million Boy
We had a wonderful time at our year end meeting. Book group favorites of the year were Lilac Girls and the Nightingale although overall, we were pleased with our picks. Everyone brought treats so we had quite a feast! We also discussed some of our favorites (and least favorites) through the years.
2018 will be our 15th year as a book club--if you like to read books by a variety of authors in a variety of genres, please consider joining our group! We meet regularly--usually the last Monday of the month. A calendar for next year is available here.
Here's a summary of One in a Million Boy: After his eleven-year-old son dies, guitarist Quinn Porter does yard work for an aged Lithuanian immigrant, Ona Vitkus, whom his son had often visited and comes to a resolution about his son's death as Ona discusses his son's capacity to listen and learn.
Next meeting - December 11
We finished our reading year out with the Nightingale by Kristin Hannah on November 27th. We liked the book almost (but not quite!) as much as we liked Lilac Girls which we read in January. We had cookies and fruit for dessert.
Our next meeting will be Monday, December 11th at 3pm at LME Library. There is no book to read but we will be sharing our favorites from 2017 and looking over the titles we picked for 2018. Members will be bringing their favorite appetizers or desserts.
Next meeting November 27-Nightingale
At our October 30th program, we discussed The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan. All felt this was a book that covered a topic little of us knew about and serves as an important work on women's history. Personally, I didn't like how it jumped around the timeline and the author's technique of compartmentalizing the information to demonstrate the methods employed at the site made it difficult to engage in the book. Overall though, the group liked it and appreciated learning about tubealloy and the Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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