The Locale: Diana's
Room
Emma Donoghue
The Book: Room (London: Picador; Toronto: HarperCollins Canada; New York: Little Brown, 2010), my Man-Booker-shortlisted seventh novel, is the story of a five-year-old called Jack, who lives in a single room with his Ma and has never been outside. When he turns five, he starts to ask questions, and his mother reveals to him that there is a world beyond the walls. Told entirely in Jack’s voice, Room is no horror story or tearjerker, but a celebration of resilience and the love between parent and child.(http://emmadonoghue.com/books/novels/room-the-novel.html)
Sarah's Summary: Diana, thanks so much for a wonderful book club. All of the food was amazing, especially the mac n cheese and the condensed milk pie:) The discussion was a good one and made us all think personally about the safely of our own children. And their changing bodies. And their stench. Scary stuff.
Next up is the French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles at Tassy's house (a sidebar, my mom told me last night that she read this book when she was pregnant with me. She couldn't remember if she liked it or not…)
Attached is our updated spreadsheet. Yeline, it appears for the second year in a row you're up around Christmas time. We can do one of three things: Find a date in early December to meet at Yeline's house to discuss The Art of Fielding then meet at a restaurant for our annual holiday dinner; meet at a restaurant for our annual dinner to discuss the book; or meet for our annual dinner sometime early-ish December and wait until early January to meet at Yeline's. Our meeting at Tassy's is November 17 and The Art of Fielding is 500 pages so… I wouldn't mind going to dinner and postponing our meeting to January but I'll go with whatever you want to do.
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| Brenda reenacts a story from home. |
- Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell # 1) by Hilary Martel.
- Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach WINS!!
Up Next: The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles will be discussed on November 17 at Tassy’s house.
Next to Present: Carmen
Then:
- Susan
- Brenda
- Lori
- Sarah
- Susan H.
- Meredith
- Jennifer
- Diana
- Tassy
- Yeline
