One last meeting for 2020

 It's winter solstice, the shortest night of the year.   The Seattle weather people are predicting unusual weather.  It was 57 degrees at my house at noon, and now, at 4 it's 49 and raining like a boat will be floating by shortly.   The kid thinks that she heard about "low land snow". 

So, it's dark, rainy, and there's also a pandemic.  Best have a book club outside!  We are hearty northwestern ladies so that's exactly what we'll do.  Melinda has a tent and heaters.   We have rain gear, blankets, and face masks.   It should be fun!

 I'm happy to report that even though the year was not as expected, we managed to keep up our reading schedule and actually accelerate it for the last two months of the year.   I mean, it's not like we had to commute for hours each day.

Think dry thoughts! 

So behind...

I updated the book list with the books I can find that we've read.  The order is wrong and some are missing, so I'll get with our unofficial historian for her lists and make the updates.

We had a vote for our favorite books for 2019 and The Overstory came out on top with Half of a Yellow Sun a close second.   We were all impacted by the brutality of Friday Black as well.

The Testimates didn't sit well with us, which was disappointing because The Handmaids Tale felt so relevant.   One comment was that this followup novel felt like a way for Ms. Atwood to get some creative control over the television series and move the narrative in a direction that she wanted. 

Meeting in the time of Covid-19