My job this morning (Sunday) after lounging with coffee was to get to the store and get the ingredients to make a fruit salad for Book Club Day!
I don’t really follow recipes, which is why I love cooking, so zen! Baking is too many rules. I don’t do well with rules.
So, I read several pinteresty ideas and winged it!
I have a very old stone bowl that works well for such occasions, this picture is right before it heads in to the refrigerator to chill for several hours.
BOOK CLUB SUNDAY FRUIT SALAD
1 PINT OF BLUEBERRIES
2 PINTS OF STRAWBERRIES
1/2 BAG OF LEFTOVER MARSHMALLOWS
3/4 MUSK MELLON CUT UP
2 SLICED BANANAS
1 WHOLE PACKAGE OF DRY VANILLA PUDDING
2 LEMONS JUICED
MIXED IT ALL UP THEN PUT A
HANDFUL OF MINI DARK CHOCOLATE CHIPS ON TOP
YUM.
The discussion at Book Club was really interesting! Four of us HATED the character of the writer of the diary, did NOT like her. Two defended her and thought she was okay. Interestingly enough the two that defended her also are the ‘Pollyanna’ ‘rose colored glasses’ members. Definite opinions on Florence the diary owner, either loathe or like.
After discussion and catching each other up on our lives we had to pick which book to read next! The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler won the vote!
Here it is pictured on the deck of the log cabin we have book club at.
Fowler, a captivating and good-hearted satirist, exuberantly pays homage to and matches wits with Jane Austen in her most pleasurable novel to date by portraying six irresistible Californians who meet once a month to discuss Austen’s six novels. Coyly shifting points of view, Fowler subtly uses her characters’ responses to Austen as entree into their poignant and often hilarious life stories. The book club is Jocelyn’s idea, a fiftysomething gal who seems to prefer the company of her show dogs to men. She has known Sylvia since grade school, and even used to date Sylvia’s husband, who has abruptly moved out, inspiring their beautiful, accident-prone, lesbian artist daughter, Allegra, to move back in and join the book club along with her mother. Also on board are disheveled and loquacious Bernadette; Prudie, a high-school French teacher; and Grigg, the only man. Fowler shares Austen’s fascination with the power of stories, and explores the same timeless aspects of human behavior that Austen so masterfully dramatizes, while capturing with anthropological acuity and electrifying humor the oddities of our harried world. Fellow Austenites will love Fowler’s fluency in the great novelist’s work; every reader will relish Fowler’s own ebullient comedy of manners, and who knows how many book clubs will be inspired by this charming paean to books and readers. Donna Seaman
Copyright © American Library Association.
Although tempted to start the book right away, I have to catch up my thoughts and reading of my 20 Books of Summer!
I do plan to have Jane’s books handy to read passages along with the book.
Next book club the end of September so I have a little room to get this done.
Peace.
