January 2016 meeting

Our next book group meeting will be Friday, January 22, 2016.

We will be reading The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, by Deborah Moggach. This book has been proposed three times in the past, so it looks like, in this case, the fourth time was charmed. This is our 190th book.

There are currently seven copies available in the Contra Costa County Library (and Lisa has the eighth).

"Moggach's prose is markedly more graceful than Agatha Christie's, her moral world is not dissimilar."  —The Times

“She writes beautifully, as always, and the phrase-making is as good as the characterization…brilliant.”     —Sunday Telegraph

Next month, Lisa will facilitate, Denise will bring book choices, and Rachel will provide snacks/food.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

November 2015 meeting

Take note: our next meeting will be NOVEMBER 20th. This is not the fourth Friday, but it is the nearest Friday when we could meet and not interfere nor be interfered with by Thanksgiving Kim is our hostess Lisa will bring books Sheila will be the facilitator We will be reading The Body in the Library, by Agatha Christie

October 2015 Meeting

Take note:  our next meeting will be OCTOBER 30.  This is not the original date we have on our schedule, so you need to change your calendar. 

• Kim is our hostess 
• Sheila will bring books 
• Mae will be the facilitator  (It turned out that Mae has a class reunion on the originally scheduled evening, so we moved the meeting forward to the FIFTH Friday so that she could truly facilitate. )

Note that because we moved October's date forward a week, and November's date was scheduled back a week (because of Thanksgiving), we will have a short reading month in November.


But anyway, back to OCTOBER.  We will be reading 

Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein.

There are eight copies sitting on the shelves in the Contra Costa Library -- and LOOK!!!  There is a CD, too!  There should be plenty of copies for us. This book was originally published in 1959. 

From Wikipedia:

Robert Heinlein was one of the best-selling science fiction novelists for many decades, and he, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke are often considered to be the "Big Three" of science fiction authors.

The novels that Heinlein wrote for a young audience are commonly called "the Heinlein juveniles", and they feature a mixture of adolescent and adult themes. Many of the issues that he takes on in these books have to do with the kinds of problems that adolescents experience. His protagonists are usually very intelligent teenagers who have to make their way in the adult society they see around them. On the surface, they are simple tales of adventure, achievement, and dealing with stupid teachers and jealous peers. Heinlein was a vocal proponent of the notion that juvenile readers were far more sophisticated and able to handle more complex or difficult themes than most people realized. His juvenile stories often had a maturity to them that made them readable for adults.... Starship Troopers was the last of the juvenile novels.