Book clubs aren't for everyone!

Did he hate the book? Didn’t anyone let him talk?
Did the women not make him feel welcome? Was he intimidated? Should we check our purses?

We are on the 3rd floor of a lovely condo overlooking Lake Union - Friend S made a fabulous spread which raised the bar (for me, anyway) for food at these monthly meetings. YUM. The book was Winter Wheat by MIldred Walker, written in 1941 about a family and their life on a dry wheat farm in Montana. Nancy Pearl, our local book expert who has written several wonderful books starting with Book Lust in 2003 and who used to live in this building says that it’s easier to talk about a book that is character driven, rather than plot driven. Stuff happens, and what is one to talk about. So we discussed the characters and their morale and intellectual character and how they changed. It did NOT make me long for that difficult life of a farmer and I don’t think this author intended to make this life “the better, more real” ideal for American living at that time but I sure could appreciate their love of nature and it’s gifts, and their eternal optimism- maybe next year’s crop will be better! Would recommend it.

OK, who is jumping off the 3rd floor balcony anyway? Altho H and I managed a pretty dry row this morning on flat water, it then got dark and windy and poured down rain. Of course! Today is the day our condo gets the windows washed - all the while they are getting streaked with rain! (why do we do this? ) AND, today is the day my friend’s condo got THEIR windows washed! Just as we sat down to talk about Winter Wheat. (do note the wheat in the vase on the left!) there he was! I couldn’t resist.