Today was the annual wrap up luncheon for the book group I have belonged to for about ten years! Wow! It definitely doesn’t feel like that. Group members have come and gone with a fairly stable core group.
As we did last year, and for this June, we met at the Vista 18 restaurant high atop the Château Victoria. www.chateauvictoria.com/dining/vista-18/ From the eighteenth floor, at corner tables with magnificent windows overlooking the city of Victoria, we enjoyed a lovely lunch before getting down to the business of books. Next year's book list hasn’t come out yet, but the books we discussed promise to be very interesting indeed.
It has been far too easy for me to doubt myself over the years about choosing a book that would be suitable for this group, many being very well read and belonging to more than one book group. I have always loved to read, and so, pushing self doubt aside I accessed the Goodreads site at https://www.goodreads.com for suggestions. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Luiz Zafon was my choice - mystery and intrigue in 1945.
What have I read this last month? The entire Harry Potter series - all seven of them! It was difficult to put them down. J.K.Rowlings wrote a masterful series developing magical growing characters in a magical setting just outside of the Muggle (non-magical humans) world. I loved it. (Kreacher, the house elf in the latter part of the series, seemed a personification of self doubt.)
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen.
The man who never reads lives only one.”
~ George R.R.Martin, A Dance with Dragons.
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