Monday

October's book choice

A chilling good tale for October

September Book Group Meeting

Kitty hosted our September "Sister" meeting at her lovely home.

Here is a little about the book that started it all...
"Hoffman has a child’s dreamy eye, in the best possible sense. To her, the stuff grown-ups don’t see anymore looms huge and important — insects banging on windowpanes, thunderstorms, a chestnut tree with a door to the “otherworld.” She invents a realm where that sense of the fictive doesn’t go away, where imagination and reality bleed together. “The Story Sisters” itself is not a fairy tale. The characters in fairy tales are all good or all bad, and Hoffman’s characters are always moving back and forth, challenging our perceptions, daring us to judge them. Her sentences tremble with allegory; nothing in this novel is ever as it appears — or is it? As Elv becomes more troubled, she retreats farther into the world of Arnelle, and farther away from her sisters. Even the girls’ last name, Story, is whimsical, lending heft to Elv’s theory that they were renamed by mortal kidnappers — we mortals being so maddeningly literal. "
New York Times Book review 2009

September Book

The Story Sisters is the book that started it all.

Friday in the Garden

End of summer book group meeting at Jane's house to celebrate the book "The Forgotten Garden". English cooking and garden fresh treats make for a lovely dinner under the stars.