July Bookclub

At the last meeting, a summer outing was concocted for July!  This idea was too tempting to disregard and so here is the plan:

On Thursday July 18, we will start with dinner at Herringbone in La Jolla, a Brian Malarkey restaurant. (Actually, we'll start with carpooling..) From there we will walk a few short blocks to Warwick's for Chris Bohjalian's discussion of his latest book, "The Light in the Ruins".  

 http://www.herringboneeats.com

Good food, lots of chat time and  a bookclub with Chris again - but this time in person! History: Recall our phone-in-led-discussion with him at Diane's in September 2006 for "Before You Know Kindness"?! ( I loved that we had a pre-meeting to organize our discussion!! We are so varsity.)  Also, our bookclub read "The Double Bind" in September 2007 and "Skeletons at the Feast" in November 2009.

Logistics: Please RSVP to me ASAP. I have made a reservation at Herringbone's for 5:30 for 6 and will adjust it as our group grows or shrinks. To attend the Warwick's event, you must make a reservation directly with them by calling and reserving a seat (858 454.0347). There is a limit of 70 (just a handful had reserved a few days ago when I tested the waters) and you are required to purchase a book in advance for your reservation. The book is not released until July 9.

Reading, reading, reading!
It will be a challenge to read the book perhaps by the event because of the timing of the published release. We plan to discuss at dinner, "Gone Girl", "Bend, not Break" and anything 'Bohjalian'.

So read  or re-read one of his great novels ("Before You Know Kindness", "Midwives", "Secrets of Eden", "Double Bind", "The Sandcastle Girls", "Skeletons at the Feast", "The Night Strangers".... does this man ever sleep??)  if you like, or ambitiously, get the new one and be in on the latest. It's all good! Will be so much fun to be together and enjoy the bookclub buzz.