Greetings, First Friday Book Club Members:
Yes, it's true: Our July 10 meeting has been approved to happen LIVE!
Where: McKinney Community Center
2001 S. Central Expressway, McKinney, TX 75070
(located just off 75 between Eldorado and Towne Lake)
When: Friday, July 10, 2020 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Calie Willis, our intrepid Rec Center person, had these notes about
using the Center for our meeting:
We encourage the public to wear masks, but it is their choice to wear
one or not. All of our staff are wearing masks. We do keep social distance
and will set up your room accordingly. There are hand sanitizer stations set up throughout the facility for everyone to use. The water fountains and water bottle refilling stations are closed, so everyone would need to bring their own water or other beverage if they would like to.
Our reading for July 10 is The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith.
Our book is the opening novel of a twenty-part series and provides the back story and characters that appear throughout the books NOTE: The McKinney Public Library CloudLibrary has eleven of the twenty books from the series available for digital checkout. (It does not make much difference if you enjoy a few "out of order", since the characters and setting are continuous throughout.) I will bring some red bush tea, of course, if everyone wants to bring their own mug and thermos of hot water.
An interview with the author explaining his tea addiction: Alexander McCall Smith – Confessions of a tea addict "Tea represents normality; it represents the continuity of ordinary life in the face of appalling and frightening odds. Even today, the response of many people to a difficult situation is to make tea. To say "I'll put the kettle on" is not necessarily going to solve any problems, but is a comforting thing to say. And if there's nothing else one can say or do, to make tea is at least to do something. Indeed, making tea is vaguely therapeutic; the mind is taken off the crisis and it gives one time to think about things and set them in perspective. There is also a sense in which making tea for another is a communicative business. If I make a cup of tea for you, I am doing something that we both see as bringing us together. Making tea is a social act." A few more resources:
I will send a reminder around the first of July, with any new meeting information.
See you all soon!
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