🛩️ 📝 First Friday Book Club Meeting - August 7 2020 📝 🛩️

Greetings, First Friday Book Club members:

Our inaugural meeting at the McKinney National Airport went smoothly on August 7, thanks to careful planning and preparation by Callie and her team. 

We had a conference room waiting and were able to socially distance comfortably while still sharing a lively discussion.

No, that's not a police lineup - just Book Club doing their thing despite pandemic, 100 degree heat and construction exile.   We delved into Anna Quindlen's Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake and concluded most of us enjoyed her style, even if we did not align with all of her opinions. 

It’s odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult. First I was who I was. Then I didn’t know who I was. Then I invented someone, and became her. Then I began to like what I’d invented. And finally I was what I was again.

There are many facets to a good memoir and we explored some variations in the genre, along with some trivia based on famous examples.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do, -  well, that's your memoirs. ~ Will Rogers

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our reading for next month is The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee.

• Vogue review is at https://www.vogue.com/article/alexander-chee-the-queen-of-the-night-interview

• "Night Music: A novel of nineteenth-century Paris" - review in the New Yorker at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/alexander-chees-the-queen-of-the-night

• "Transformers: A 19th-century opera star must face the person she once was in Alexander Chee’s novel." - Review in Slate at https://slate.com/culture/2016/02/the-queen-of-the-night-by-alexander-chee-reviewed.html
  

More notes on this novel in a few weeks.

Enjoy the sunshine.

Tami  Book club web page = First Friday Book Club Book club Facebook = https://www.facebook.com/FirstFridayBookClub