The candles were lit.
The drinks were ready.
The food was on the table in the breakfast room.So the guests filled their glasses and their plates and proceeded to the brick patio to both socialize and to discuss the book selection.
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June Book Club Meeting
Host: Joann
Book: The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich
Response of the Book Club Members: The setting for this book is North Dakota where Fidelis Waldvogel, a German immigrant who processed thru Ellis Island begins his hardscrabble American life in 1922. The book references back to Germany in World War I and proceeds slowly and then rather rapidlyly thru World War II where some of Fidelis's sons are fighting on both sides of the conflict in Germany. The book ends with scenes of post World War II in Germany and America.
Host: Joann
Book: The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich
Response of the Book Club Members: The setting for this book is North Dakota where Fidelis Waldvogel, a German immigrant who processed thru Ellis Island begins his hardscrabble American life in 1922. The book references back to Germany in World War I and proceeds slowly and then rather rapidlyly thru World War II where some of Fidelis's sons are fighting on both sides of the conflict in Germany. The book ends with scenes of post World War II in Germany and America.
The book club members were fascinated by some of the amazing characters in this book: Fidelis, Eva, Delphine, Cyprian, Marcus and Step-in-a-Half. Louise Erdrich, the author who is part German, part French and part North American Plains Indian managed to weave lots of history of Jews and Germany into this story.
