Meredith’s Comments (group member since Oct 13, 2016)

Meredith’s comments from the Shepherd Center Book Club group.

Ali can add her own. She mentioned too many.

These are the ones I remember Deborah mentioning:

Erasure (source for American Fiction movie)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Just As I Am by Cecily Tyson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

These are the books I remember George mentioning:

He Who Fights Monsters
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Forks Over Knives
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

The Dorito Effect
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

We are not official. We are meeting in the 3rd floor conference room in the Shepherd building, usually at noon on the last Thursday of the month. There is a Teams option for those who can't make it in to center.

We had a nice big reunion for the first meeting in February! It was great to see old familiar faces online!

Discuss February's selection here.

Discuss March's selection here.

Discuss April's selection here.

Discuss May's selection here.

Discuss June's selection here.

Discuss July's selection here.

Discuss August's selection here.

Discuss September's selection here.

Discuss October's selection here.

Discuss November's selection here.

Discuss December's selection here.

This was Christine's final book club with us so we did a potluck lunch. People brought a food to represent either their favorite book or a book that we've read in our club. It was a nice way to send Christine off on her new adventure.

Chat away about this month's book selection.

I didn't post in time to remember how many people showed up, but it was a good amount. We had a new person join us. It seemed like most people enjoyed the book. But if people watched the movie without reading the book, they thought it was kinda slow or that the time line was confusing. We had red jello in a brain mold for snacks. Brain on FIRE!!!!!

I think there were 11 people present for parts of the meeting and then two people were out of town but sent their comments in through others.

My mother was a secretary and knew how to type. We had an electric typewriter for as long as I can remember. I loved the purring sound it made when it was switched on. Any schoolwork that needed to be typed up, I hand wrote it and my mother typed it for me. I was terrible at writing while in school. She probably thought I was a moron based on how infantile my papers were.

I knew how to type, though. It didn't take any effort to be comfortable once I started using computers.

I think we also had an older manual typewriter, too. I definitely remember the metal arm to return. To erase, you used something like "white out tape." You'd back up and stick the tape between the paper and keys and hit the letter again. It was never a perfect match, so you'd always see that a correction had been made.

Good memories. I started using computers off and on in the 4th grade, which was right as personal computers were becoming commercially available.

So, we discovered that short stories don't generate a lot of discussion. We still had a lot of support at the meeting. 17 people made appearances (some couldn't stay for the whole meeting) to talk about Uncommon Type.

Tom Hanks was not in attendance.

Snacks were just regular stuff that we wanted to eat. Christine brought Oreos because they were mentioned in one of the stories (and they're always a hit).

I'm glad we put it on the list but it didn't change my mind that short stories are ... hit or miss.