Book Club!

The book- Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You by Alice Munro
The restaurant- Stella's in Alexandria

What a great time! Good friends, good wine, good book, and great presents- what else is there? We wish the friends who couldn't make and who we really missed could have been there.

Noteable quotes:
"Forgiveness in families is a mystery to me, how it comes or how it lasts." p105

"I thought about Mother's life, the part of it I knew. Going to work every day, first on the ferry then on the bus. Shopping at the old Red-and-White then at the new Safeway- new, fifteen years old! Going down to the Library one night a week, taking me with her, and we would come home on the bus with our load of books and a bag of grapes we bought at the Chinese place, for a treat. Wednesday afternoons too when my kids were small and I went over there to drink coffee and she rolled us cigarettes on that contraption she had. And I thought, all these things don't seem that much like life, when you're dong them, they're just what you do, how you fill up your days, and you think all the time something is going to crack open, and you'll find yourself, then you'll find yourself, in life. It's not even that you particularly want this to happen, this cracking open, you're comfortable enough the way things are, but you do expect it." p 99


Next book-
The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living: A Novel by Martin Clark