2/20/10 - 100 Years of Solitude

Howdy fellas,

Welcome to this blog, which we will use from this point forward to communicate about our book club, so that we don't spam the crap out of facebook friends.

Here are notes from today's meeting:

Present: Mike Balich, Rebecca Balich, Glen Seay, Ryan Grisham, Sabyn Braun, Andy Keeping, Colleen McGovern

1. Group Name
Nobody had strong opinions so I went with "In the memo line" both because it's topical and less potentially offensive to new members than say... "Why am I on cops?" Also it makes for a clean blogspot address. Fuckittearouthisvocalchords.blogspot.com is kind of hard to yell @ somebody in a bar.


2. Website
http://inthememoline.blogspot.com

3. Book discussion: The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

Reaction & discussion was varied. Some revulsion to the theme – it's just not a pleasant story for most of the book. Agreement that the sister's character is an interesting & ultimately uplifting. Some of the passages where Susie interacted with the real world were confusing. Some discussion about the contrast between Ray & Susie's mothers. Mike was interested in the presence of several short passages, which seemed offset from the main text & serve as poetic pauses. Agreement that this setting & characters tend to evoke real people from our lives. My final thought is that we mostly "hate this book," not because it's poorly written, but because it's an incredibly uncomfortable theme & mostly a very sad story. 

4. Book for March

After a brainstorming session, we settled on 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia-Marquez.