February 2019 Meeting

This month, we are reading The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx.  This book was a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1994. There are many copies in the Contra Costa Library, and lots of audio CDs in LINK+.  Amazon says, "...Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family." Fran pointed out that they made a movie out of this book as well. 

The meeting will take place on February 22, 2019. 

Hostess:  Lisa
Books:  Kim
Facilitation:  Sheila

Calendars of meetings through October 2019 were distributed - copies will be available at the next meeting for those who were unable to attend tonight. 

January 2019 meeting

In case you forgot, our next meeting is January 25th, the actual Fourth Friday of this month!!  Also, it's basically 10 days from now. 

Hostess - Kim

Books - Sheila

Facilitatress - Donna 

We are reading Shadowy Horses, by Susanna Kearsley.  This book is not available in the Contra Costa County Library, so you will have to get it from LINK+, another library, or buy it from Amazon. 

Here's what Amazon has to say about this book:  

Archaeologist Verity Grey has been drawn to the dark legends of the Scottish Borderlands in search of the truth buried in a rocky field by the sea. Her eccentric boss has spent his whole life searching for the resting place of the lost Ninth Roman Legion and is convinced he's finally found it—not because of any scientific evidence, but because a local boy has "seen" a Roman soldier walking in the fields, a ghostly sentinel who guards the bodies of his long—dead comrades. Here on the windswept shores, Verity may find the answer to one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time. Or she may uncover secrets someone buried for a reason.