Coronado Celebration September 2015

Dear Bookclub,
Like little Dorothy's, we hit the road last week and became transformed in a wonderful world of 1906.

The glow of our getaway still envelopes. Our adventure was filled with beautiful weather, dear camaraderie, OZ-injections, bike rides, golf cart meanderings, happy hour and a half's, good food, male-admirers, and a darn-good walking tour.

   

 

    

 

These are just a few images of our happenings; please share any more that you may have. There are never enough and I am so sorry that we didn't coordinate a picture at Chez Loma!

Thank you so much for the gifts and the card - I loved having everyone's sentiments on that Tinman card!!

Two more meetings and then we will have another opportunity to have our big bookclub family back together again at David and Martha's on December 12th for our holiday gathering! Our December selection is "Butcher's Crossing" by the National Book Award novelist, John Williams. Please read this great description on the Goodreads website:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/457228.Butcher_s_Crossing

Next up is "Under the Wide and Starry Sky" by Nancy Horan.

Robert Louis Stevenson. 1850–1894

Requiem

UNDER the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you 'grave for me:
Here he lies where he long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

Not quite "A Child's Garden of Verses"....
Robert Louis Stevenson, had a fascinating childhood and life (which I learned in a few minutes of google-sleuthing) but I'd rather not say anything. I quit reading any factual biography as I have not yet read Horan's book and would like to learn more later after delving into the sweetly imagined novel. Much more fun that way.

Please RSVP to Karen....
Happy Reading!
LK