In February we read Annie Spence's Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak In The Stacks, which fit our theme for February of love because it's a series of love letters to books and libraries. It was not a big hit and initially posed some difficulty in figuring out how to discuss it. But a pop quiz got us talking about a lot of the different books that Spence talked about, a lot of the books we've read, and brought out some really fun stories from members.
In March we read Colm Toibin's Nora Webster. Only four of us could make the meeting and only two of us had finished the book but we still managed to have a decent discussion about a book that none of us loved. It's a slow mover and we weren't entirely sure what Toibin's point was. The best part of there only being four of us was that we could sit around Cheryl's kitchen table and nosh and talk. But the best part of the evening was Mary Beth's Irish jokes which she tells with a fantastic Irish accent.
Can't say that we can recommend either of these books for book clubs, although Nora Webster might have made for better discussion if we had all read it or if there had been more of us to talk about it so that we might have gotten other opinions.
