Attendees: Addie, Denise, Heather, Lisa, Michelle, Raven, & Rhonda. With a special appearance by the birthday boy Cooper!
We discussed 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. We all thought that that the book was very interesting. We loved that the main character, Aomame (Denise pronounced the name correctly for us), was a strong female character that killed off men that did horrible/bad stuff to women. We also thought that the Dowager was a good female character too. I don't want to write too much of what we discussed because I know that there are still some people that are reading the book (it is a long one!) and I don't want to spoil anything. We did wonder about a lot of the stuff that was left unresolved in the book and we discussed that. We talked about the parallels between Aomame and Tengo. We all really liked the book and would recommend it!
Rhonda is having her backyard done (Denise had hers done and it looks awesome!) and we got to see a little bit of what they are doing and I can't wait until that is done. Rhonda also brought out some yummy cupcakes from the bakery that she uses for her dog business.
We had a hard time trying to figure out what book to read, so I will list two books that we decided on with a third if you would prefer not to read the above two.
Here are the details for the next book club:
When: 2/7/12 at 7pm
Where: Rhonda's House
What are we reading: Blue Nights by Joan Didion. This is a short book at 188 pages :) and the second came from a referral by Cooper who heard from one of his patients. I can't remember exactly what Cooper called it, but it was something along the lines of My Mother Eats Lemon Cake...It is actually The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
If you are a super reader or if you don't want to read the two above you could read River Town by Peter Hessler
Happy Reading!
