What a lovely evening. Sorry everyone couldn't make it out for the great conversation, food and as always great friendship.
Everyone loved Cheryl's choice "A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman. It was one of those feel good kind of books.
I personally wasn't so sure when I started reading it. Ove was driving me crazy with all his pet peeves about people and rules. I'm thinking to myself as I read good grief man you're only 59 and you're this big of a pain to everyone around you. He's Oscar the Grouch. Black is Black and White is White, he's right and everyone else is wrong.
Hmmm I think I know someone like this.
Then I as I read I kept thinking okay where's the humor. Oh wait here's a man who's trying to kill himself and fails miserable every time. Between failed equipment, neighbors interfering, someones else's accident or that damn cat that keeps appearing. Or the the over weight neighbor who warms up the cat. And is.... well I won't say... won't spoil it for those who haven't read it yet.
Here's a man who appears to hate people but seems to draw them to like moth to a flame.
And there's the love story side of the book. When he see's the girl and goes out of his way to be with her. And without her in his life, it's not worth living.
He's hard working and self motivating but computers and economy push him out of his job.
This book makes you think of that commercial someone commented where the man walks into the coffee shop all irritable at everyone and thinks they're stupid or cry babies whatever then he gains insight into their life and sees that the woman crying just lost her husband and another person just got word they had terminal cancer and another lost their job and has 3 kids to support. My description is not the exact commercial but you get the idea. Basically next time you run into someone and think what a "JERK" give them the benefit of the doubt they may have been given bad news or had a rough day themselves.
This book brought about as all our books do many other conversations and examples of in our lives that paralleled the book in some little way.
One conversation went to politics. YIKES. Trump..... Clinton. Crap... The choices we have are .........
Thanks Jerry and Cheryl for opening up your lovely home to this rowdy crowd. LOL
Now for Gaye's Choice..... "The Far Empty" by J. Todd Scott (Pam you may be in trouble this book has 448 pages so if you enlarge the words you could end up with 700-800 pages.. Love you LOL)
Our next meeting will be Thursday, August 18th
Location TBA later
Next to Choose: Ed, Jan, Kathy. Lisa, Pam
Get out there. get your book and start reading. You have 448 pages to read. Till August.
Your unofficial Secretary/Photographer
Carla
