Michelle Holdaway is swamped with new baby and all the fun that that brings.... so Debbie Mullin will be doing Book Club in Sept. Since we will be reading in August - hopefully on vacation, relaxing on those lazy summer days - I picked a light and fun read. I picked this up in the Seattle airport on my way home from a vacation on the recommendation from a book club readers list. I loved it. Hope you will too. :) We will meet on Sept 2 at 7 pm at Debbie Mullin's house. See you then. If there is a conflict with the date, I am open to pushing it to Sept 9th. Just leave a comment with a vote as to which date works for you!
Church of the Dog by Kaya McLaren
From one on-line review....
"How often can you pick up a book and think right from the very beginning, "As soon as I finish reading this book, I am going to write my own."? That is what Kaya McLaren's words did for me. They were an absolute inspiration. Her style is crisp and refreshing - not intimidating. She tells a wonderful story in a narrative that lopes.
"Church of the Dog" is a work of fiction, but it is about people who are real. People you have met if you have ever lived in the rural west. Mara is the extremely creative and energetic single woman any single woman would like to emulate. She has dreams that help her and her friends navigate through life. Edith is the exuberant grandmother who has not let life's tragedies embitter her. In her advancing years, she is still singing the song, "It Is New Every Morning." Her practical, taciturn rancher-husband has not cramped her style one bit, but it is too bad her love of life did not rub off on Earl a little bit more. He might have wanted to stick around a little longer. The somewhat-troubled grandson evades true involvement in life by hiding behind his camera lens. The pictures he takes capture events and scenes - recording them more clearly than memory.
In the end of the book, love and family and hope prevail. I cannot think of three better reasons to read a book."
