Tap on Tuesdays at 7 and Metropolitans by 8:15.
Contact LuAnn for last minute details if you want to meet up for either or both of these adventures on Tuesdays for the next 6 weeks.
This was a hot topic at our meeting with quite a few of us showing interest. I am looking forward to the recital...YAY !!
Who knew??Nine of us were able to make tonight's meeting battling the driving hazards of our first major snow of the season. BTW - Happy Birthday Mary Ellen! Hope you had a nice night. Pat came with popcorn, but instead of her usual chocolate covered popcorn she brought caramel covered popcorn. YUM! There were lots of other sweets and cheese type snacks on our spread tonight.
Theme drinks are popular and at LuAnn's party in December, she made a lot of metropolitans. (I believe they are a lot like the cosmopolitan). Everyone loved them, hence, the desire to continue with the theme after Tap on Tuesday.
Please note the changes in our schedule on the home page of this blog. Barbette is hosting a movie night in March (The Help) and Ann Marie will take her old title for April.
Well, on with business ...
The book... The Good Wife Strikes Back by Elizabeth Buchan.
The meeting date... January 13, 2012.
To Refresh your memory, here is a summary from www.Shelfari.com:
What we said...Elizabeth Buchan’s New York Times bestseller Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman was hailed as "a thoughtful, intelligent, funny, coming-of-middle-age story" by The Boston Globe . Now she’s back with another wise and entertaining novel about a woman who veers off the beaten path—and finds much more than she bargained for. After nineteen years of being the perfect wife to an ambitious politician, Fanny Savage is restless. Tired of merely keeping quiet and looking good at public engagements, she remembers the career she abandoned and the life she left behind as a successful partner in her father’s Italian wine business. She has devoted two decades to being the Good Wife. Was it worth it after all? Could it be time for a trip back to Italy—to the pleasures of sun, wine, and food? Could it be time for . . . a change?
Just a handful of us actually read the book, however since the theme of the story was family and marriage related, there was no lack of discussion. Although the book didn't really knock anyone's socks off, it came across as a pleasant read. The basic take from beginning to end is that with marriage and family dynamics there's always a "tradeoff". Some give and take throughout the years for all involved.
Some of us vented frustration with Fanny's lack of initiative to change anything herself. The changes that occurred in her life seemed to happen on their own without effort from her. In the end she was happy and at peace because everything worked out for the better.
by the way...
Check out the book that Barb spoke of:
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Here is a summary from www.Shelfari.com... any takers? a summer read? it's only 544 pages:A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides — the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl. In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them — along with Callie's failure to develop — leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia — back before the Detroit race riots of 1967, before the rise of the Motor City and Prohibition, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set in motion the metamorphosis that will turn Callie into a being both mythical and perfectly real: a hermaphrodite. Spanning eight decades — and one unusually awkward adolescence — Jeffrey Eugenides' long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. It marks the fulfillment of a huge talent, named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker. (544 pages)
