Happy 5th Anniversary Book Clubbers!!
I hope everyone had an enjoyable time at the Paet home on Wednesday night.
The Poet Spotlight was given by Joy. From Runny Babbit - a Billy Sook by Shel Silverstein:
Runny be quimble,
Runny be nick,
Runny cump over the jandlestick.
But now -- what smells like furning bluff?
Guess he didn't hump jigh enough."
We talked a little about The Glass Castle and then time sure got away from us! Ah, the snacks sure were yummy, anyway. *grin*
Some interesting quotes & questions:
"I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a dumpster."
"Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting.
"Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom.
"Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering."
HOT TOPIC: When Jeannette and her brother find a diamond ring, they immediately want to sell it for food, but their mother keeps it to "improve her self esteem." Really? REALLY?
"Mom and Dad liked to make a big point about never surrendering to fear or to prejudice or to the narrow-minded conformist sticks-in-the-mud who tried to tell everyone else what was proper."
HOT TOPIC: Was the U-haul the best place to ‘store’ the Wall’s children on their trip across country? Really? REALLY??
And finally, a lesson on self-reliance anyone?
...the wood was chewed through everywhere. We kept stepping on soft spots in the floorboards, crashing through, and creating new holes. "Darned* if this floor isn't starting to look like a piece of Swiss cheese," Dad said one day. He told me to fetch him his wire cutters, a hammer, and some roofing nails. He finished off the beer he was drinking, snipped the can open with his wire cutters, hammered it flat, and nailed it over the hole. He needed more patches, he said, so he had to go out and buy another six-pack. After he polished off each beer, he used the can to repair one of the holes. And whenever a new hole appeared, he'd get out his hammer, down a beer, and do another patch job.
In attendance:
Joy, Molly, Moana, Arielle and Trisha
We had fun answering trivia questions from our book choices from July 2006 - July 2008. I only did the two most recent years instead of five because, well goodness, it is a lot of books!
For the Month of August we will be reading "These is My Words" by Nancy E. Turner.
**UPDATE** Congratulations to Sarah & Takuya and family on your newest arrival. Kenji Cavalier Ohki was born July 22nd. We know you are enjoying your new son.
