Thursday, April 14, 2022

And .... back to Zoom!

 

Lynda offered to host the meeting in April, but COVID-19 had other plans, as we struggled through the sixth wave, forced to negotiate  will we?/won't we? for every event. We settled on won't this time.  Though it was unfortunate to miss Lynda's hospitality we had a good discussion about The Strangers on Zoom. 

Next month, on May 11 at 1 pm we will meet at my place to talk about The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen.  If all goes well.

Books we mentioned: 

  • One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
  • Braiding Sweet Grass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Pluck: a memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist by Donna Morrissey
  • Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce
  • Noopiming: the cure for white ladies by Leanne Simpson

Books we didn't think to mention: 

  • Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
  • Stray Dogs by Rawi Hage
  • In Love with the World: a monks journey through the bardos of living and dying by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Helen Tworkov
  • These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
  • Nothing But the Truth by Marie Henein
Viet Thanh Nguyen on his book The Sympathizer