Saturday, February 11, 2012

February and March


Today's discussion of River Thieves, by Michael Crummey, began, uncharacteristically, as soon as the first members were seated. That would be Janice, Ann and Anne Marie. Janice had a question about the meaning of a line about three-quarters through the book. Art and Tony arrived together a few minutes later and jumped in and provided some elucidation. We had moved onto other topics when Mairtin arrived late due to traffic so talk of the book began again. There was general agreement that is a very good book but had a very different pace from Galore by the same author. It didn't have the same feeling of being on a rollicking ride but was more subdued. Ann described it as "frozen." All agreed that the writing was beautiful.



The book for March is House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.





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