A number of guys have been talking at recent parties about the books we're reading, so a book club was suggested. Here's how it works:- Get the book from the library or a book store.
- READ IT! (Sorry, getting the book isn't enough!)
- Come share dessert, as well as your thoughts and insights on the book... and if you've got bitchy comments, please sit by me!
Thursday, September 24
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
Hosts: Bill & Andy
Location: 2001 Royalwood Dr., Arlington, 76006 (map)
Call for directions: 817-718-2424
First up: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
From Publishers Weekly: In his latest collection, Sedaris has found his heart. This is not to suggest that the author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and other bestselling books has lost his edge. The 27 essays here (many previously published in Esquire, G.Q. or the New Yorker, or broadcast on PRI's This American Life) include his best and funniest writing yet. Here is Sedaris's family in all its odd glory. Here is his father dragging his mortified son over to the home of one of the most popular boys in school, a boy possessed of "an uncanny ability to please people," demanding that the boy's parents pay for the root canal that Sedaris underwent after the boy hit him in the mouth with a rock. Here is his oldest sister, Lisa, imploring him to keep her beloved Amazon parrot out of a proposed movie based on his writing. ("'Will I have to be fat in the movie?' she asked.") Here is his mother, his muse, locking the kids out of the house after one snow day too many, playing the wry, brilliant commentator on his life until her untimely death from cancer. His mother emerges as one of the most poignant and original female characters in contemporary literature. She balances bitter and sweet, tart and rich—and so does Sedaris, because this is what life is like. "You should look at yourself," his mother says in one piece, as young Sedaris crams Halloween candy into his mouth rather than share it. He does what she says and then some, and what emerges is the deepest kind of humor, the human comedy.
GROUP RATING OF BOOK FOLLOWING DISCUSSION (10=HI, 1=LO): 7.9
6 comments:
We're not gonna have to read "Bruno" are we?
Tommy
i'm excited...it should be fun...if it's nice out, we can jump in for a swim if ya want....see you soon.
Bill
I'll be there! James
I read this book. So I will come I always wanted to go to a book club meeting.
Doug
i am planning on attending if it's not too late to RSVP -- jody wasson
thanks to all who came to the book club gathering. I really enjoyed talking about the book and life experiences. The discussion was insightful and all who attended seemed to have a great time.
Hope others will be inspired to join in the fun.
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