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Alice King

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Apr 29, 2012, 3:29:52 PM4/29/12

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Hi,

The Book Lover’s Discussion Group would love to have any of you join in and participate in the current book and offer suggestions for books you are reading. Here’s the idea from Maureen McNair.

Interested YA's could attend the next meeting, Thursday, May 10 at 6 PM in Room 114a. We are going to discuss Michael Ondaatje's novel, The Cat's Table. It's recollections of an adult man about 3 weeks he spent as an 11 year old boy, without an adult escort, aboard a passenger ship sailing from Ceylon to London. For meals, he sits at the cat's table, where stray passengers collect farthest from the captain's table. He's insignificant, so invisible to authority, and the strangers he meet changes his life forever. It's easy to read, beautifully written, and packs a powerful punch. (Ondaatje also wrote The English Patient for which he won Britain's highest literary award, the Booker prize. That book was also made into the Academy Award winning film of the same name.)

If anyone wants to read The Cat's Table, we can all discuss it at the May meeting.

Whether or not you can read the book, you can come to the May 10 meeting to help choose a title together that we'll all read and discuss at our Thursday, June 14 meeting (6 PM).

Does that sound like a workable plan to you? We're really interested in hearing about what novels young adults are inspired to read these days and their take on those books. This idea was inspired by a Spring 2012 "UU World" article about a multigenerational book group at another congregation.

This really is a great opportunity for the right people. If you are curious…you are the right person!!!

The Book Lover’s group meets from 6-8 pm. If you are in the YAMS group, you can come over to YAMS at 8 pm and we can still have plenty of fun.

I hope some of you will want to do this. It has the potential to create a culture shift in this congregation and those already involved are pretty excited about this idea. Be prepared that most of the folks will be older than you. But I bet it would create a shift within you as well. Take a risk.

Love,

Alice

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