*blog for 3/24 – written last night, but there were too many dvr’d shows when I got home to allow for editing and publishing. 🙂
A book club was born in my yoga class – we’d sit on our mats before class and discuss our current reads, then someone said, “We should have a book club.” And voila ~ here we are. We had our first meeting last month after reading The Poser.
This month our book club read Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. ” This novel explores the age old conflict of father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japenese Americans in the Seattle area during WW II, and the depths and longing of heartfelt love.” ~ Lisa Love, author.
We met tonight to talk about the book and realized how in many of the books we read, the parents of the characters are manifested in their children. This sparked a discussion of each of our own histories, and how our own parents influenced who we are. It was not only wonderful to be in the company of such positive, enlightening women, but it was great to learn about each others families, too. Sitting around the table, it was just like an episode of “The Talk”. Then the question was posed – are we like our parents in parenting our own children, or did we learn from our parents all the things we don’t want to do in our own parenting? A thought we took home with us, as we said goodbye to our hostess and planned next month’s read. If you want to read along with us, we are going to read The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery and we’ll be meeting on the fourth Thursday of the month.
Great wine and food, lovely home with fireplace, 4 intelligent well-read women who are also fellow yogis, a great read, engaging discussion, and points to take home to ponder – I couldn’t have asked for a better “girls night out”.
And so, as another day goes by, I’m ending it with gratitude for these awesome women I’ve come to know, and ….I have written.
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