Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts

Friday, November 16, 2012

Welcome Book Clubbers


I am going to use this blog to share what my adult book club is reading with those members who cannot attend. Feel free to post your own comments whether you could make it to the meeting and, more importantly, if you cannot come.

Our November book was The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. I liked it very much. It kept me guessing throughout although I thought I had figured out the mystery of Nell's parentage fairly early on. I accepted all the red herrings Morton presented along the way. (From a description of the book on GoodReads.com) A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, and a mystery. The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton.

If you read the book but could not come to the meeting and would like to comment, please do so below. The members who came to the meeting, all liked the book and we discussed the red herrings and when we all figured out the mystery. I don’t want to give anything away here because I know some members still want to read it. Superstorm Sandy really messed us up this month. 

 If you have any suggestions for next month's book, please write them below.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Reading and dinner

Right now I'm reading Generation Dead by Waters. It is pretty good. It definitely brings up some interesting perspectives about what the world would be like if zombies or "differently biotic" people came to life for real. The character development is good and the evil boy is especially well-drawn and hateful.

I went to Carmine's in New York last night with some friends. It is an Italian restaurant that serves pasta family style in big bowls. It is way more food than 3 people can or should eat. We got the special which was manicotti, vegetable lasagna, gnochi in a vodka sauce, and cavatelli in a pesto sauce. We also got the mixed green salad. It was all very good and very filling. I was so stuffed! I have made a vodka sauce and I enjoyed it but somehow it does not taste like the one at Carmine's