For our February 4 meeting, we welcome back Dr. Diane Schneider, who will present a very popular bestseller, The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans. In this wonderful “epistolary novel” (one told through letters), the main character, a spiky retired attorney, reveals her life, conflicts, heartaches and discoveries through the letters she writes to everyone she knows – and many she doesn’t! This book has been a big hit with book clubs.
For our March 4 meeting, we have had a change of presenters. Jean Thomas will now present the nonfiction book Marriage at Sea, by Sophie Elmhurst, also a bestseller.
Maurice and Maralyn are an odd couple, but feel they are perfectly suited to one another. In June 1972, they fulfill a dream of selling everything and taking off for a life of adventure sailing their new boat. Initially everything goes as planned, but in June 1972, a breaching whale sinks their boat and leaves them stranded on a raft in the Pacific, with dwindling supplies, no communications, and a poor chance of rescue. What follows is a riveting account of the survival of two people and their marriage under the most extreme physical and mental challenges.
In April , Cindy Rushing will present the novel The Librarianist, by Patrick DeWitt. In this book, the central character, Bob Comet, clearly falls somewhere on the autism spectrum, or to use a more modern reference, Bob is “neurodivergent”. He grows up with sketchy parenting, some surprising adventures, and much solitude, but Bob is a great autodidact, enormously well read, and at home in the world of books. He becomes the local librarian, and slowly we realize what an intelligent, kind, observant person he is. We also discover that most of the “normal” folks who surround him are hampered by many problems of their own and benefit greatly by their encounters with Bob. A book about ordinary life from a different point of view….