Day 8 of 365 days of being grateful
Today I am so grateful for my book club. I love to read! My three best friends Jackie, Carol, and Nancy are in the book club so it makes it even more special! I think there are about 10 or so members.We read Behold the Dreamers for this meeting. It is a fabulous book if anyone is looking for a good book to read. All of the women in the book club are so nice and so smart! I think most of the members are teachers and nurses. Everyone is local so we never have to travel far for a meeting. One time my friend Jackie was nice enough to pick me up for a meeting. She told me that the house was hard to find so it was better for me to go with her. We couldn't find the house, we were knocking on the wrong door and a huge dog in the house kept barking at us. We rang the bell and this HUGE MONSTER dog came charging at the glass window next to the door. If he could have gone through the glass we would have been dead meat!
All of our discussions are so great! I love to hear what others think of a book I read. No one in this book club tries to take over the conversation. I can't stand to be in a book club where one or two people monopolize the conversation. Everyone is open to hearing what every person has to say. This month the club meets at my house. Everyone brings snacks to share so it is not a lot of work for whomever hosts. My friend Jackie always brings great snacks and I have NO willpower, the chocolate pretzels keep calling my name! I am glad I am hosting in Jan. so I didn't have to go out in the cold. I am very anal so I printed out book club questions I found online. I suggested this book so I hope most of the members enjoyed reading it. Even if I don't like a genre, I am glad to read it because it opens my mind to different things. In particular, I have never liked horror, but I have gotten use to it because we always read a horror-type book for Halloween. I also am not a sci-fi lover, but a friend suggested reading The Martian Chronicles and I really enjoyed that book! Right now I am reading Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult. I bought it on the library used book cart and I am just loving it. It is about the discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn. When I have a good book to read, I'd like to just sit on the couch and read and read and not do anything else. Somehow I never forget to eat, though!
Everyone brought great snacks and desserts to the meeting. We had cookies, cake, candy, pies, chips and dip, and nuts. Dan was watching TV in the basement, he heard someone say it was time to eat so Dan came running upstairs to join in!
Some people liked the book and some thought it was hard to get into. Most of the members didn't have empathy for some of the main characters. We talked a lot about immigration, especially how it pertains to people today with a president like Trump. None of us are Trump fans! I think we spend more time discussing politics than we do discussing our monthly book. Ah, if we could only run the world!! Next book we are reading is Red Notice, a non-fiction book that is about the Magnitsky’s Act. This book exposes a lot of Putin's underhand and vicious attacks on Magnitsky. It really portrays the real Putin and the way the Russian government is run. I read the book a year or two ago and I am happy to read it again. When the Magnitsky Law was approved by Congress, Putin immediately put a ban on Americans from adopting Russian orphans. Some couples were ready to leave the country with their adopted children and they were not permitted to take their adopted children out of Russia.
From Wikipedia:
The novel opens in fall 2007 with the interview of an immigrant from Cameroon, Jende Jonga, who is hoping to be hired as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a Lehman Brothers executive. Jonga's job allows him to pay his wife's college tuition and send money back home until the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers threatens both families. Jende Jonga is also seeking permanent residency through a false asylum request.
All of our discussions are so great! I love to hear what others think of a book I read. No one in this book club tries to take over the conversation. I can't stand to be in a book club where one or two people monopolize the conversation. Everyone is open to hearing what every person has to say. This month the club meets at my house. Everyone brings snacks to share so it is not a lot of work for whomever hosts. My friend Jackie always brings great snacks and I have NO willpower, the chocolate pretzels keep calling my name! I am glad I am hosting in Jan. so I didn't have to go out in the cold. I am very anal so I printed out book club questions I found online. I suggested this book so I hope most of the members enjoyed reading it. Even if I don't like a genre, I am glad to read it because it opens my mind to different things. In particular, I have never liked horror, but I have gotten use to it because we always read a horror-type book for Halloween. I also am not a sci-fi lover, but a friend suggested reading The Martian Chronicles and I really enjoyed that book! Right now I am reading Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult. I bought it on the library used book cart and I am just loving it. It is about the discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn. When I have a good book to read, I'd like to just sit on the couch and read and read and not do anything else. Somehow I never forget to eat, though!
Everyone brought great snacks and desserts to the meeting. We had cookies, cake, candy, pies, chips and dip, and nuts. Dan was watching TV in the basement, he heard someone say it was time to eat so Dan came running upstairs to join in!
Some people liked the book and some thought it was hard to get into. Most of the members didn't have empathy for some of the main characters. We talked a lot about immigration, especially how it pertains to people today with a president like Trump. None of us are Trump fans! I think we spend more time discussing politics than we do discussing our monthly book. Ah, if we could only run the world!! Next book we are reading is Red Notice, a non-fiction book that is about the Magnitsky’s Act. This book exposes a lot of Putin's underhand and vicious attacks on Magnitsky. It really portrays the real Putin and the way the Russian government is run. I read the book a year or two ago and I am happy to read it again. When the Magnitsky Law was approved by Congress, Putin immediately put a ban on Americans from adopting Russian orphans. Some couples were ready to leave the country with their adopted children and they were not permitted to take their adopted children out of Russia.
From Wikipedia:
The novel opens in fall 2007 with the interview of an immigrant from Cameroon, Jende Jonga, who is hoping to be hired as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a Lehman Brothers executive. Jonga's job allows him to pay his wife's college tuition and send money back home until the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers threatens both families. Jende Jonga is also seeking permanent residency through a false asylum request.
NPR Summary
Two marriages, one immigrant working class and the other from the top one percent, are shaped by financial circumstances, infidelities, secrets and the 2008 recession
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