I am doing something a little different for book club this month. I have just started a new little business of selling jewelry for Lia Sophia, which you are probably all tired of hearing me talk about. :) Anyway, since I am just starting up, they have offered me incentives to do a particular number of shows in my first five weeks as an advisor, and I am only short one!! So this month for book club, I will also have my display of jewelry out so I can count it as another show. Maybe it's cheating, but at least I can get my quota!! Ha ha! Anyway, I just wanted you all to know there is no pressure to buy anything, just come to the book club meeting!!!!
We will be meeting at my house (10606 10th Dr SE) on Thursday, February 24th at 8:00 pm. The book we are reading this month is Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, by Helen Simonson. I have just started it and am really enjoying it. There is still time for you to try to get it read before the meeting!
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February Book
After much debate, the book has been chosen which we will be reading for February! This one comes highly recommended from JoLyn, so you know it's gotta be good! Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, by Helen Simonson is the book. I hope you all find the time to snuggle up with this one this month!
Here's the synopsis:
"Major Ernest Pettigrew, retired, of Edgecombe St. Mary, England, is more than a little dismayed by the sloppy manners, narcissism, and materialism of modern society. The decline of gentility is evident everywhere, from tea bags, to designer sweaters, to racism masquerading as tolerance.
Mutual grief allies him with Mrs. Ali, a widowed local shopkeeper of Pakistani descent who has also resigned herself to dignified, if solitary, last years. The carefully suppressed passion between these two spawns twitters of disapproval in their provincial village, but Pettigrew hasn't time for such silliness: real estate developers are plotting to carpet the fields outside his back door with mansionettes and his sister-in-law plans to auction off a prized family firearm. Meanwhile, Mrs. Ali's late husband's Muslim family expects her to hand over her hard-won business to her sullen, fundamentalist nephew, a notion she finds repellant and chauvinistic.
It's a testament to Simonson that in this delightful novel, Pettigrew must navigate the tragic, the absurd, and the transcendentally joyful aspects of a familiar life turned upside down by an unfamiliar and unexpected late-life love affair. That two people from opposing and mutually distrusting worlds are able to bridge every gap with unerring respect and decorum serves as a quiet suggestion that larger conflicts might be avoided or resolved in much the same way. Finally, a way forward that Major Pettigrew would approve."
Here's the synopsis:
"Major Ernest Pettigrew, retired, of Edgecombe St. Mary, England, is more than a little dismayed by the sloppy manners, narcissism, and materialism of modern society. The decline of gentility is evident everywhere, from tea bags, to designer sweaters, to racism masquerading as tolerance.
Mutual grief allies him with Mrs. Ali, a widowed local shopkeeper of Pakistani descent who has also resigned herself to dignified, if solitary, last years. The carefully suppressed passion between these two spawns twitters of disapproval in their provincial village, but Pettigrew hasn't time for such silliness: real estate developers are plotting to carpet the fields outside his back door with mansionettes and his sister-in-law plans to auction off a prized family firearm. Meanwhile, Mrs. Ali's late husband's Muslim family expects her to hand over her hard-won business to her sullen, fundamentalist nephew, a notion she finds repellant and chauvinistic.
It's a testament to Simonson that in this delightful novel, Pettigrew must navigate the tragic, the absurd, and the transcendentally joyful aspects of a familiar life turned upside down by an unfamiliar and unexpected late-life love affair. That two people from opposing and mutually distrusting worlds are able to bridge every gap with unerring respect and decorum serves as a quiet suggestion that larger conflicts might be avoided or resolved in much the same way. Finally, a way forward that Major Pettigrew would approve."
An Evening With the Pickles
We had a lot of fun at our last book club meeting!! It was a great turnout at Carrie's house. Thanks to everyone who came and helped participate in the conversation!
Those in attendance were Carrie Howell, Anne Bodily, Laura Schilaty, Melissa Espin, JoLyn Thompson, Dyan Thornton, Audrey Sisco, Caroline Rowe, Michelle Norlie, Sarah Williams, and myself. Thanks Carrie!!!
Those in attendance were Carrie Howell, Anne Bodily, Laura Schilaty, Melissa Espin, JoLyn Thompson, Dyan Thornton, Audrey Sisco, Caroline Rowe, Michelle Norlie, Sarah Williams, and myself. Thanks Carrie!!!
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