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.