Dear Bookclub,
Happy Valentine's Day!
Hope your hearts are filled with the spirit of our friendship and your souls radiant as these roses!
Plans are being formulated for the Spring 2014 trip to Huntington Library and Gardens. A very fun and productive happy-not-limited-to-an-hour meeting at the Veranda, way back on Tuesday 2/4, sparked the start of decision making. Trip will be May 15-17. An email with further details to follow for those planning to attend.
Up next: bookclub at Sue's on February 20th to discuss Chris Bojhalian's, "The Sandcastle Girls". Please RSVP to Sue ASAP!
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The Armenian genocide during World War I is the subject of Chris Bohjalian’s 14th novel, “The Sandcastle Girls.” Inspired by his grandparents’ background, the author explores the suffering and atrocities of that time with astounding precision, compassion and grace.“How do a million and a half people die with nobody knowing?” ponders Laura Petrosian, the book’s modern-day narrator. The answer, she will discover, is really very simple: “You kill them in the middle of nowhere.”
Laura has embarked on a search to find out more about her Boston Brahmin grandmother and her Armenian grandfather, who met during the slaughter about which she knew very little. “To understand my grandparents, some basics would help,” she says. “Imagine an oversized paperback book with a black-and-yellow cover, The Armenian Genocide for Dummies.” This light-hearted tone is in stunning contrast to the next chapter, which flashes back to 1915 to the horrors taking place in Aleppo, Syria.
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(to read more)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/chris-bohjalians-the-sandcastle-girls-relives-the-armenian-genocide/2012/07/16/gJQA1oLOpW_story.html
Hope to see you at Sue's!
LK
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