Thanks to everyone who came and enjoyed our book club discussion. What a great evening of sharing our love of books and other topics of interest we love to talk about. This is a great group of friends and we miss those who could not be there. Thanks Tanya for your Edenbrooke and for taking us back to a more royal and elegant time and place. I hope we have all found our “Philip”.
Next month LuAnn will be hosting on Wednesday July 2 at 7pm. Her book pick is:
Goodreads review says: That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary Anne returned from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan suffering from what her doctors believed was a rare type of hepatitis. Months later she was diagnosed with a form of advanced pancreatic cancer, which is almost always fatal, often in six months or less.
This is the inspiring true story of a son and his mother, who start a “book club” that brings them together as her life comes to a close. Over the next two years, Will and Mary Anne carry on conversations that are both wide-ranging and deeply personal, prompted by an eclectic array of books and a shared passion for reading.
A Goodreads reader review: An absolutely wonderfully written book that is not just the personal experience of Will Schwalbe. This book explores the power of books, reading them, discussing them and intagrating them into our lives and the lives of others. I think we all have an understanding of how important our friends and family are, but this book brings home the importance of letting those people know not just how much you love them, but how proud you are of them or how much you respect them and what they have done or the decisions they have made. Everyone should read this book, no matter what they are going through, and even if they aren't going through anything at all but just living their life.
Here are a few suggestions from Debbie that you might want to check out. Life in a Jar by Jack Mayer and Quiet by Susan Cane
Happy Reading!!
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I really liked our discussion at Tania's. Such a fun group!! And this was a great little story!
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