The Housekeeper and the Professor
Yōko Ogawa
The Book: He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor’s mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. The Professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities--like the Housekeeper’s shoe size--and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away. The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3181564-the-housekeeper-and-the-professor
Sarah's Summary: Yeline- thank you so much for a wonderful, fun book club. As always, the food and company were perfect.
Welcome to our newest members, Kristine and Jessica. We are thrilled that you were able to join us yesterday and look forward to sharing many books over the years with you. For the first time in a long time we were all present!
As a summary, we are meeting on March 8th at Susan S's house to discuss Bright Shards of Someplace Else by Monica McFawn and on April 12th to discuss Brenda's choice, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown. We may meet at my house for Brenda's book club, depending on the schedule for the Word of the South Festival happening at Cascade's Park that weekend. Once a schedule is publicized, we can discuss if we want to make it a book club/field trip (I live 1/2 mile from Cascade's). We can probably firm it up at our March meeting.
I think I have this correct- Susan please confirm. We are mixing up the order for hosting as Lori mentioned she will likely ask us to vote on some more non-fiction books. Gina will prepare selections for us to vote on at our March meeting.
After that, I forget where we left it- are Susan H. and I going to host and then are we going to put in Jessica & Kristine??
The Vote: Brenda presented...
- A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life by James Bowen
- Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
- The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown WINS!!
Next to Present: Gina
Then: Lori
