Welcome to the Millennium Bood Club Blog. I hope this online venture will serve as a means to extend our discussions beyond the Sunday afternoon meetings and provide a way for those members who can't be present on meeting days to participate in and benefit from the group.
The August 19th meeting was small, but definitely boisterous, from the reports I heard from a few who were present. Apparently the book evoked spirited discussion! Some loved the book, others didn't care for it at all. But this is what makes for good discussion. It was pointed out that the author didn't do his homework on some aspects of history, having the characters use matches when they were not yet invented. Some members felt that the attitudes and situations were somewhat liberal for the times and that several situations were a bit far fetched. The comment was made that our first read by this author, A Boy's Life, was much better. Angie brought a beautiful strawberry trifle for the snack....another reason to be sad to have missed the meeting!
The "floor" is still open and we'd love to hear from those who read the book but couldn't make it to the meeting. Your comments will be much anticipated and appreciated!
As a reminder, our next meeting will be on Sunday, Sept 30th. The Green Hills Library is not available that day so I'll make arrangements for a meeting place and let you know soon. Our Sept read is The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter.
Hope to read your comments soon!
Maureen
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Hello All,
Just checking in, as blogs are all new to me....thank you Maureen for putting this together, you are a genius. I hope to jump back in to Millennium, I have been in a reading drought. I just read 2 great books in a week, so I am ready to go. Our friend, Ann Patchett, gave me an advance copy of her Oct. 1st release, "Run"....a great book, up there with "Bel Canto". She just left for her European book tour, then the US. Maybe I can get her to visit us again. Did I tell you that a customer had heard that she visited a book club at the Green Hills library? We ROCK.
Hope to catch up with you all soon.
Maggie Rucker
Dear Maureen
Thank you so much for establishing this blog so that I can continue to read vicariously and enjoy the book club 700 miles away!!
I miss each and everyone of you, and hope in the near future Paul and I will make another change and head back to the Nashville area.
I am an empty nester now so reading along with MBC will be a big help to me. Thanks again. Nancy
We do ROCK! It's good to hear from you both. Maggie, I hope to see you at the next meeting, and Nancy, I hope you do relocate back here. In the meantime, can't you plan a trip around book club meetings? :)
Maureen
Hi everybody,
Thanks for putting this together, Maureen. I've never been in (or would it be "on"?) a blog before, and never thought I would be, so thanks for bringing me into the modern world!
I was sorry to miss the last book club. I actually really liked the book. The story kept me interested, and I thought the author did a great job creating the various characters. Parts of it were just plain weird, though, which made me regret recommending the book to my mother before I read it! I think this is the one and only time that I'm grateful for my mother's short-term memory problems, since she can't remember if she read the book or not. I'm pretty sure she did read it, though, after I recommended it a year or so ago, but now I'm telling her she shouldn't bother reading it because she probably wouldn't like it - ha! Somehow I just can't see discussing the book with her...."So, Mom, what did you think about the sex scenes with the demonic creatures?" Can I say "sex" on a blog? Hope so, because it would be a real bummer to be kicked out of a blog the first time I ever was in one!
Nancy - hope you make it back this way soon. Maggie - I hope you make it back to book club soon, and tell Ann I said hi the next time you see her - ha! (I can't wait to read her new book, though, because I really loved "Bel Canto".)
Hope to see you all soon. I'm officially signing off of my first attempt at blogging. (If I can figure out how to get out of here, that is.)
Susan
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