2017 10-19 Breaking Night by Liz Murray hosted by Carla

I'm so bad I didn't even read my own book that I fully intended to do and I do want to. My boss talked it up and said this is a good book for your book club so I better read it. Liz Murray came to CFISD as a guest motivational speaker.

Everyone that made out to the Hobbit Cafe say they loved the book and enjoyed it. Thanks for making the drive out. Surprisingly it only took about 45 minutes to get there in 5 o'clock traffic  Another good night of food friends.
One thing Jan noted was Breaking Night echoed the same scenario as the book The Glass Castle. She almost didn't read Breaking Night but was glad she read it I think I remember that right
The turning point for Liz was when her boyfriend started doing drugs. Her family started out rather normal but went down hill it quickly with their drug use and dependency. 
There were several questions/thoughts that were brought up at the meeting like

1. What happened to the sister Lisa who seemed to have it more together
2. Everyone agreed that not enough information was provided and left you wanting more answers
3. Why did she write the book? for profit?
4. How could she still love her parents and not be angry.

So I asked my boss Kim the questions since she was there and listened to Liz speak

1. Liz made no further mention of her sister really
2. Nothing to add here
3.  Yes she wrote the book for profit of course but she really wanted to help others and let them know they can be more than their environment. You can raise above.
4. As a parent of foster and now adopted children, Kim said that it seems no matter what the environment the parents provided the child seems to feel compelled to love, defend and protect those parents no matter how bad it was.

It might have been fun if we could have gotten Ms Murray to come to our meeting and answer all our questions. 

No one was at the meeting that was on the list to announce their book but we were lucky enough to have Sandy there for the first time in a long time and she had a book for us to read. It was great to see her again.

So her book choice is We were Liars by E Lockhart.

Sandy has instructed us ....

It doesn't take long to read...but if you come to the meeting and if you haven't finished it or haven't read it yet, just be warned---it will be totally spoiled! 

There are some revelations made in the book and you really won't want to hear about it before you read it!  That's all I can say!  Oh and don't google it!  :) 

Our meeting NEXT will be on Thursday,December 14th... Location to be announced.
Until our next meeting
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