Hi all - we missed Sue E, Jane and Pat R at Long Jetty today, as we celebrated with a Christmas lunch meeting, catered beautifully by Moy. Ham and Turkey with gorgeous salads, washed down with plenty of bubbly and topped off by a gloriously sinful cheesecake.
Yes, we did talk about the book, American Rust, by Philipp Meyer. Depressing but not as depressing an end as might have been expected. For those who haven't finished it, definitely worth it. Strong characterisations and some wonderful descriptive writing about the beautiful American countryside, as it reclaims the industrial rustbelt of Pennsylvania. Ros filled up her page with comments quite easily even the group was easily sidetracked onto a great range of other topics!
Next book is of course The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, and we will skip December as usual and meet on 26 January (even though it's Australia Day) at Ros's place.
March book is at Margaret Lackenby's place at Kirribilli. Book is The Golden Notebook, in honour of its author, Doris Lessing, who passed away during the month.
