Book Group
Due to Covid-19, the Sitting Room Book Group continues its meeting via Zoom
All welcome to participate. To get the Zoom invite, write to Joann Borri, joannborri@gmail.com
The Book Group meets on the third Wednesday of the month - January through November.
Meetings are from 2:30 - 4:00 pm PST
All welcome to participate. To get the Zoom invite, write to Joann Borri, joannborri@gmail.com
The Book Group meets on the third Wednesday of the month - January through November.
Meetings are from 2:30 - 4:00 pm PST
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January 18, 2023
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin. Discussion Leader: Clarice Stasz
Valerie Perrin’s book, translated by Hildegarde Serle, became a world-wide best seller during lockdown. This is even more amazing given the theme, the life of a cemetery caretaker in a small Bourgogne village. Despite the bleak setting, the story is often fresh and fun as it tracks the way a woman trapped in familiar circumstances creates a satisfying life. Some of the praise include: melancholic and yet ebullient; an art so subtle it will take your breath away; contemporary fiction, a murder mystery, a thriller, a tragedy, and a romance all rolled into one. Clarice Stasz will lead the discussion. She discovered the book provided great solace and hope for humanity while her husband was in his final months.
February 15, 2023
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. Discussion Leader: Sheila Bare.
The Buried Giant is a fantasy novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published in March 2015. The novel follows an elderly Briton couple, Axl and Beatrice, living in a fictional post-Arthurian England in which no-one is able to retain long-term memories. After dimly recalling that they might years earlier have had a son, the couple decides to travel to a neighboring village to seek him out.
