October 2014 Bookclub Recap

Dear Bookclub,
I was so disappointed to miss last week's meeting at Karen's. I knew she'd put on a beautiful gathering - I still have her last year's October meeting in my memory bank of charming evenings. It's all those pumpkins!




In the spirit of literary letters, I thought I'd share verbatim Karen's response to my request for a report on the evening. Emails are the new quill and pen- so here it is in the original format:

Hi Lynn-

Sorry it has taken awhile for me to send this but it was a busy weekend! We had a great turn out for Book Club and a very lively discussion (even if most of it was not regarding the book).

We all enjoyed the book as it was a heartwarming break from some of our more gruesome reads of late.  What  a wonderful book to theme with food too! We had all things Irish. I served homemade Baked Potato Soup, pumpkin bread, Reuben spread on rye & caraway crackers, and Irish almond cake with Tullamore Dew Irish whiskey in it! I have included a couple of pictures for the Blog too.

The books suggested were:

Factory Man by Beth Macy

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr  (revisited)

After voting and discussion we chose All the Light We Cannot See. It had been suggested earlier but we felt it was worth revisiting.

We missed you and I hope your migraine is gone. If it is any solace, I have been getting less frequent migraines of late.

We also discussed the Christmas party. We will have a cash bar at the gathering and appetizers will be served. We will figure out a dollar amount per person as to the cost by next meeting.

Hope to see you soon!

Karen


And just to add to our literary weight, this will be a collection of letters. My request for information yielded this nice note from Julie:

Karen beautifully connected the evening from "book to table" with an Irish theme that dazzled all.  From her potato soup to a delicious Irish pound cake, we enjoyed it all sprinkled with conversation tidbits about the lovely story.

Karen briefed us on the holiday party (Karen has those details, Lynnie) and we selected a book (Karen has the winner... not sure... I Voted for The Interestings by Meg W. (again see Karen).

It was a fun night catching up in the glow of carved pumpkins!  A  great turnout of 9, I think, was well accommodated by Karen's comfortable seating area.

js



Thank you so very much Karen and Julie!

Finally, a collection of Whiskeys: 

Happy Reading!
LK