We had a wonderful time gathering at Debbie’s house for our annual movie night. We watched To Kill a Mockingbird. Some of us had never watched this classic movie and others just finished reading the book for the first time. Such a good book. Debbie spoiled us with her concession stand of movie theater goodies. It was a perfect evening.
Our next book club meeting will be on Tuesday February 5th at 7 pm at Sue Mitchell’s home. Her book pick is:
A Goodreads review says:
"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world.
By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition.
A Goodreads reader says:
Beautiful prose, fascinating tale about the collapse of a bridge and the lives of the people who died there. The premise of the story is that there was a monk who was convinced that each of these people had died for a reason, and who wrote a book trying to prove the existence of God based on the life stories of the five people who died - but the narrator of the story goes on to fill in all the things the monk didn't know or misunderstood, giving this short novel layers upon layers of story. Absolutely wonderful.
Telarry will be hosting in March and her book is Murder on the Rocks by Karen MacInerney. It is available in librarys and on the kindle.
See you in February at Sue’s home.
Diane
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