Upon entering Kami's house we were greeted with candle light, antiquish books resting upon lace, quilts and beautiful wood, face open with beautiful flowers carefully placed on and around the books! Tea, tea and more tea and a little coco (it was fitting for the book) in the most exquisite tea cups and sauces. Delicate spoons and flatware for stirring cream and sugar and tiny forks for nibbling a delicious individualized strawberry shortbread cake desserts in the fanciest glass goblets! It was...heaven! The atmosphere was swelling over with an old English charm (again so fitting for our book)! Thank you so much Kami for putting so much thought and preparation into planning out our meeting...what a gem you are!
As if that were not enough, she also had the book on CD on her Ipod which she played excepts from as we discussed and divulged into a very dark and Gothic novel about love, loss, mystery, ghosts, graves, and twins!! Really, truly, this was a very fascinating book and if you did not get a chance to read it, it would be a great summer read. Don't let it slip off your list of "to do's" as far as books are concerned!
We also decided on our next pick, which is River’s Edge by Marie Bostwick The story of a young German woman, Elise Braun, who is sent to live with distant relatives in the tobacco growing region of the Connecticut River Valley just prior to the outbreak of World War II. I'll be happy to host this one. We'll meet Monday June 8th 7pm at my house. Please click on the link... this author has a great website with lots of info about her and the book!
I did go into Barnes and Noble earlier this week and they DO NOT carry it (or so they told me) and also informed me they could not order it. Hum? So, again I ordered my copy on Amazon (a used hard cover in excellent condition for only $2.30 with tax and shipping only $6.49! Deal!) Good luck finding your copy's...let me know if anyone finds it somewhere locally and I'll post it along with an email to everyone.
*** Just as a side note- Our last book I ordered online used from Amazon and it took much longer than I expected to receives it so weeks later when I did get it, I ripped open the package and noticed a...different...smell. It wasn't bad, just kinda old, a perfumery fragrance. The cover was different than the pictures I saw online and the pages had a slight yellowish tint to them. After demolishing the packaging I pieced it back together and realized my book came from London! I was a little excited to discovered it because it felt like I had a little piece of something different, something someone else had love the heck out of and then passed it along to me. Yeah...I'm kinda weird with sentimental junk like that! Anyways, what struck me even more was after I dove into the first few chapters to realize the story was focused around an English Novelist (Vida Winter) and an English biographer (Margaret Lea) who owned a rare and used bookshop in the London area. It gave my little treasure that much more meaning and that "different" smell kinda provoked a little delight and reminder each time I open the pages and breathed in its fragrance!
Okay...enough of my rambling...I'm sure not every purchase on Amazon results in such wordy little rants...ha!
Okay Book Clubbies....Find your books....get to reading...and get ready for another amazing book club night....I'm hoping to pull a few surprises this time! :-)
-Lyn
