The Grapes of Wrath

This was such a great book for discussion, and there was no shortage of great conversation last night at my place: the dust bowl, migration, exploitation of farm workers,  mechanization of agriculture, censorship, politics, the photography of Dorothea Lange, supply management and more.

Our next book club evening will be at Lynda's on December 13th and the book will be The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis.

For January we have decided to meet for dinner at Mai Bistro again.  The date will depend on everyone's schedules.  Watch for an update here.

We didn't have enough people to decide on dates for February; we can finalize that next time.  But we did choose the book: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah and Maureen will host for February.

Following that we will be at Saara's in March and Susan's in April.

Books mentioned last evening:

• We'll All be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night by Joel Thomas Hynes
• The Violinist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
• Britt Marie was Here (also A Man Called Ove) by Fredrik Backman
• Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin
• Caught by Lisa Moore
• Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
• An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
• Running the Books by Avi Steinberg
• Laughing all the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Narwaz
• Thank You for Being Late:An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Tom Friedman
• Commonwealth by Ann Patchett 
• South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914 - 1917 by Ernest Shackleton
• Forged in Crisis by Nancy Koehn