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.
On March, 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….