Our last book club meeting of the "semester" is this
Tuesday, May 4.
Please be sure to be on the lookout for book ideas for the new season of Evening Book Club, that starts in September.
Post your ideas as you get them!! and let's keep the dialogue going...
Here is my book idea...one of my favorite authors, starting back when I lived in Baltimore, Anne Tyler. I've read everyone of her books. Her latest is "Noah's Compass" .You might get addicted to her...
ABOUT THIS BOOK
From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.
Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged.
His effort to recover the moments of his life that have been stolen from him leads him on an unexpected detour. What he needs is someone who can do the remembering for him. What he gets is—well, something quite different.
We all know a Liam. In fact, there may be a little of Liam in each of us. Which is why Anne Tyler’s lovely novel resonates so deeply.
I would like to read an Anne Tyler book. I saw Breathing Lessons on TV, which I think is based on her book, but I have never read one. Thanks for suggesting it. --Marianne
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