Book Notes Review and January Book

Tuesday, January 10th @ 9:30am
Peggy’s home
Book:

Stones from the River

by

Ursula Hegi

Co-Conveners:
Mary & Roberta

Our young adult book this month was

Catcher in the Rye

by

J.D. Salinger

. The book was very controversial when it was published in 1951 touching on such subjects as depression, impulsive spending, prostitution, homosexuality, drinking and vulgarity. The story is told through the main character, Holden Caulfield. Holden is a confused 16 year old who is trying to find his way to adulthood. After getting kicked out of his third boarding school, he heads home to New York City, but before going home he decides to spend 3 days in the city on his own. It’s during these three days that we get a glimpse of Holden in varied situations and his action/reaction to them.

Our group rated this book a 6.5 out of 10. One unanimous comment was that it was not a “page turner” story. Other comments were “actually enjoyed it more than I realized”, “didn’t get into it”, “liked it but found the language repetitive”, “didn’t enjoy it, found it tedious”, “kept reading waiting for the controversy”.

Thank you to June for hosting our meeting and to all the ladies for providing a delicious pot luck lunch.

February meeting is on Feb. 14th at 9:30am at Andrea's house.
The book is

A Very Long Engagement

by Sebastien Japrisot


Suggested Reading:

A Tourist in the Yucatan

– James McNay Brumfield

A Million Little Pieces

– John Frey