A great turnout today--but not perfect. Mairtin is on his Europe tour. All present had read (!) and all enjoyed this month's book "Drive the Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" by Olga Tokarczuk. Greta discouraged us from following up with the author's other popular book, "Flights."
We lined up our books for the next three or four months.
August: "The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead.
September: "Salt Houses" by Hala Alyan which is set in Palestine.
October and maybe November: "The Covenant of Water" by Abraham Verghese. This is a fairly new book and may be hard to get which is why we gave ourselves a couple of months for our library reservations. It is also long, 736 pages, so it may well take two months.
The weather is perfect this time of year to curl up by the fireplace under several blankets for some cozy reading. Enjoy!
