November Book Club Meeting

Host: Carol


Book: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak


The Response of the Book Club Members: Everyone was totally awed by this novel of the holocaust told thru the eyes of the main character who was Death. That's right. Death. Everyone started out hating Death but in the end everyone had great sympathy for him because he showed such compassion. Everyone thought it was one of the very best books we have read this year! And to think that in the bookstores they have classified this as a young adult book. Most of the book club members thought that that was a bad idea because it is a mature theme that would be way above the emotional maturity of 11 or 12 year olds.

October 2009 Meeting

The Host: Joann

The Book: Chesapeake, James Michner

The Response of the Book Club Members: The more mature members of our group had read this book along time ago when it was first published. The younger members enjoyed being introduced to this prolific writer of American sagas: James Michenor. All agree that when writes a novel on a particular region of the country he started at the very beginning (before recorded history) and works his way thru plot and characters to the present time. For instance, in Chesapeake we have Native Americans and English colonists as well as Richard Nixon and watergate and Frank Perdue's chicken empire

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The only negative to a Michenor novel-----they are long and take time to read.