Well, if you didn't make the meeting, here's what you missed ...
The book... The Postmistress by Sarah Blake.
The meeting date... November 18, 2011.
To Refresh your memory, here is a summary from www.Shelfari.com:
What we said...the majority of us did not finish the book in time for the meeting and those that listened to the story said the narrator did a great job with distinguishing the different perspectives - the story told from being in Europe in the war and the story told from those left behind at home in the USA listening to the war.
Those of us who missed out on the back and forth dialog with different accents by the narrator had a harder time getting involved in the story until the pieces started falling into place later in the book. By the end of the book most of the main characters all fit together in a set of coincidences that happened throughout the storyline.
A lot of the meeting's book discussion focused on answering the book questions that Janet had. Answering the questions gave those of us readers who never finished a way to find out the details that we missed.
On another note ... we talked about various aspects of taking care of our parents as they age, LuAnn's delicious apple dip and its crafty presentation, some interesting neighborhood stories, and the Turkey Trot coming up. Peggy is a star in the Turkey Trot's promotional video. If you haven't seen it yet, you can see it by clicking this photo (watch for time stamp 42 (sec)) ...
There was talk that maybe with her acquired star power she should become our book club mascot (are there such things?) What exactly would a book club mascot look like? ...
The book... The Postmistress by Sarah Blake.
The meeting date... November 18, 2011.
To Refresh your memory, here is a summary from www.Shelfari.com:
What would happen if someone did the unthinkable — and didn't deliver a letter? Filled with stunning parallels to today, The Postmistress is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women — and of two countries torn apart by war. Weaving together the stories of three very different women loosely tied to each other, debut novelist Blake takes readers back and forth between small town America and war-torn Europe in 1940.
Single, 40-year-old postmistress Iris James and young newlywed Emma Trask are both new arrivals to Franklin, Mass., on Cape Cod. While Iris and Emma go about their daily lives, they follow American reporter Frankie Bard on the radio as she delivers powerful and personal accounts from the London Blitz and elsewhere in Europe. While Trask waits for the return of her husband—a volunteer doctor stationed in England—James comes across a letter with valuable information that she chooses to hide. Blake captures two different worlds—a naïve nation in denial and, across the ocean, a continent wracked with terror—with a deft sense of character and plot, and a perfect willingness to take on big, complex questions, such as the merits of truth and truth-telling in wartime.
What we said...the majority of us did not finish the book in time for the meeting and those that listened to the story said the narrator did a great job with distinguishing the different perspectives - the story told from being in Europe in the war and the story told from those left behind at home in the USA listening to the war.
Those of us who missed out on the back and forth dialog with different accents by the narrator had a harder time getting involved in the story until the pieces started falling into place later in the book. By the end of the book most of the main characters all fit together in a set of coincidences that happened throughout the storyline.
A lot of the meeting's book discussion focused on answering the book questions that Janet had. Answering the questions gave those of us readers who never finished a way to find out the details that we missed.
On another note ... we talked about various aspects of taking care of our parents as they age, LuAnn's delicious apple dip and its crafty presentation, some interesting neighborhood stories, and the Turkey Trot coming up. Peggy is a star in the Turkey Trot's promotional video. If you haven't seen it yet, you can see it by clicking this photo (watch for time stamp 42 (sec)) ...
There was talk that maybe with her acquired star power she should become our book club mascot (are there such things?) What exactly would a book club mascot look like? ...
