On April 1, 2015, a large group met at Chili's to discuss
Donna's choice "All The Light We cannot See" by Anthony Doerr,
The meeting was attended by Madeleine, Donna, Kathy, Carol, Janet,
Sue, Sarah, Nancy, Betsy and Nettie, All who had read the
book unanimously agreed that they loved it and some even
thought it was one of the best they had read.
Donna had meticulously prepared for the discussion and led
a very lively discussion. One of the topics discussed was the author's
skipping around with the chronology and the alternation between
Werner's story and Marie Laure's story.
We marvelled at Marie Laure's clever father who helped
his daughter to overcome her blindness by building the
scale models of the cities.
We discussed the outcome of the ill fated jewel and what
we thought became of it.
We discussed the evil that war brings to people and the
helplessness that people like Werner and some of the other
young German boys experienced.
We have read many war stories but this one was a bit different and
the author does a great job of converging the paths of two young
people caught up in the tragedy of war on opposite sides.
We hated to see that the hero dies but rejoiced in the heroine's
eventual development into an accomplished marine biologist and leader
in her field totally overcoming her handicap of blindness.
Sue chose a book entitled "The Perfume Collector" by Kathleen
Tessaro which is a story about the development of strong
women in the 1950's post world war 2.
Sue chose this because we have not read many books about this
time frame and it promises secrets, intrigue, passion, memories
and so much more. Looks like an exciting read.
May 13 was chosen as the next meeting.
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