A big thank you to Shannon for hosting the Reading, Eating, and Drinking Ladies this time around! It was great to see everyone and hopefully if you didn't make it, we will see you next time.
Speaking of next time, our next meeting will be April 30th at Mary's house in La Jolla. So mark your calendar!
This tale is the philosophical and spiritual chronicle of one man's quest for self-discovery. Stunned by his wife's inexplicable disappearance from their Paris home and immediately suspected of foul play by the authorities and the press, the unnamed protagonist, a best-selling writer, is forced to reexamine both his marital relationship and his own life. What he eventually discovers with the help of a -mysterious stranger named Mikhail--a man he suspects is somehow involved in Esther's disappearance--is that he must first "find himself" before he can ever hope to find his wife. Although Esther is physically and emotionally lost to him, he rediscovers her as he retraces both her footsteps and the disintegration of their visceral connection. Finally able to release the past and his anger, he can accept the uncertainty of the present by traveling to Kazakhstan with Mikhail in search of Esther and the remote possibility of resurrecting a dormant love.
If you are able to get through this one quickly, our second book will be Beginner's Greek by James Collins.The two young professionals of Collins's polished debut, Holly and Peter, meet on a flight bound from New York to L.A. They tacitly understand they are soul mates, and she invites him to dinner, but Peter soon discovers that he has lost the number Holly wrote on a page torn from Mann's The Magic Mountain. With Peter's financial career and New York society as a mundane backdrop, years pass and Holly ends up married to Jonathan, a successful author and womanizer—and, conveniently, Peter's best friend. Still aching for his one-time seatmate, Peter marries Charlotte, a dull Francophile, because it made sense. Charlotte, of course, is also in love with someone else—a former flame, Maximilien-Francois-Marie-Isidore. At Peter and Charlotte's wedding, Jonathan is struck by lightning, precipitating an endless series of events that changes the lives of family, friends and lovers alike—including Peter's boss and Charlotte's ex-stepmother.
I am going to start packing books and trinkets to send to Kim in St. Kitt's. If you have any books to add to the pile, please email me and let me know so I can get them from you to mail.
Thanks ladies!
Karina
Karina
Ps. I don't know if anyone has ever noticed, but if you hover the mouse over the pictures, witty captions appear. I've been doing this for a long while, more to amuse myself than anything, but go ahead... hover the mouse over the picture. :)
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nice meeting everyone last week. I wanted to let u all know the historic reference to Chile's "first freely elected Marxist head of state" is Salvador Allende, the cousin of Isabel's father. He was elected in 1970. In 1973 Pinochet led a coup during which Salvador Allende died in an attack on the presidential palace.
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