September at Jo's

Contending with travel fatigue, rain and traffic on the Gardiner we were rewarded by a great evening at Jo's house talking about The Summer Before the War and other things.  A big thank you to Jo!  Too bad the weather didn't allow us to meet in your beautiful backyard retreat.

Next month we'll be at Jan's.  The book will be The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng. The date is Tuesday, October 25th, when we can expect much sharing of baby photos.

We chose Wednesday December 1st for the next meeting at Lynda's but didn't decide on a book.

Here are the other books we mentioned:

• Norman Bray and the Performance of his Life by Trevor Cole
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark  
• The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
• The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel 
• The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad 
• The Best kind of People by Zoe Wittall 
• Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin 
• Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
• The People's Choice by Jeff Greenfield 

This plot of this last novel has some similarities to the new American TV series, Designated Survivor, with Keifer Sutherland as the stand-in POTUS.