📓 Notes for August 7 meeting 🖋️

Our next (live!) meeting is this Friday, August 7 at 2pm at the McKinney National Airport. 1500 E. Industrial Blvd. McKinney, TX 75069 (Be sure to bring your opinions- and your mask)

Our reading for August is Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen.

Do you read many memoirs? Do you prefer a particular type, time, voice or subject? What is your favorite memoir? Have you been disappointed by a famous memoir? Is voice the most important part of a memoir or is subject matter the key? Or are they too intertwined to be unraveled? How would your memoir be constructed?

About memoirs as a genre:

• Literary Style and the Lessons of Memoir

• A Different Approach to Thinking About Memoir
  

• Are memoirs fiction or nonfiction?
  

• [Definitions] Biographies, Autobiographies and Memoirs

Some literary reviews of Anna Quindlen's memoir: New York Times review:

• LA Times review

• [Audio interview: NPR: Fresh Air] Anna Quindlen: Over 50, And Having 'Plenty Of Cake' [38 minutes]

• Washington Post review: Discussion questions: LitLovers
  

Our alternative reading this month is The Library Book by Susan Orlean

• Interview with the author:  https://www.npr.org/2020/01/23/798989811/susan-orlean-author-of-the-library-book

• 9 Things You May Not Know About The Library Book by Susan Orleans

See you at the airport next Friday, August 7,  at 2pm!

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

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