Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighborhood book club. They met Wednesday night at Jill's house. The group included Jill, Judy, Jan, Michelle, Debbie and Sharon. Going in a slightly different direction, they each selected a dinner out of a Ina Garten's Modern Comfort Food cookbook and got together for a Galentine's Day dinner.

Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighborhood book club. They met Thursday night at the community pool. They discussed Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce.

Apparently, the next meeting in October is going to be coed for the book Chain Gang All Stars...

Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighborhood book club. They met Thursday night at the community pool. They discussed Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro.

Neighborhood Book Club Afternoon Movie

Friday afternoon, Sharon went to Michelle's house for the Neighborhood Book Club afternoon movie. The group included Jill, Michele, Debi and Sharon. They watched Zodiac. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr.

Neighborhood Book Club Afternoon Movie

Sharon hosted the Neighborhood Book Club for an afternoon movie. The group included Jill, Judy, Michele and Debi. Sharon showed Ordinary People. Sharon and Jack watched the movie a couple of years ago. Sharon, Morgan and I watched in the early 2000s.

Released in September of 1980, Ordinary People marked the directorial debut of actor Robert Redford. The film stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, and Timothy Hutton. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent was based upon the 1976 novel Ordinary People by Judith Guest.

The film received six Academy Awards nominations at the 53rd Academy Awards. It won four Oscars, including: the Academy Award for Best Picture; Best Director for Redford; Adapted Screenplay for Sargent; and Supporting Actor for Hutton. In addition, it won five Golden Globe Awards, including: Best Motion Picture – Drama; Best Director (Redford); Best Actress in a Drama (Tyler Moore); Best Supporting Actor (Hutton); and Best Screenplay (Sargent).

Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighbor book club that meets about every two months. They met Thursday night at the community pool. They discussed The Nature of Fraglie Things by Susan Meissner.

Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighbor book club that used to meet about every two months. After not meeting since last September, they met Thursday night at the community pool. They discussed The Nature of Fraglie Things by Susan Meissner.

Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighbor book club that meets about every two months. They met Thursday night socially distancing at the community pool. They discussed The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel by Kim Michele Richardson.

Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighbor book club that was meeting about every two months. On a break since the shelter in place order in March, they met Thursday night socially distancing in Judy's backyard. They discussed The Guest List by Lucy Foley.

I babysat Lee while Morgan did a Zoom class.

Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighbor book club that meets about every two months. Thursday night, they met at Kathy's house to discuss Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult. She missed the last meeting; it was the night of her birthday.

I wandered down the street to Jim and Debbie's house. Jim made a caesar chicken salad. Rod and Greg eventually showed up. While the wives were at book club, the four of us played pool for a couple of hours.

Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighbor book club that meets about every two months. Thursday night, they met at Jill's house to discuss Educated by Tara Westover.

Educated is a memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist Mormon family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University. The book debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist for a number of national awards.

Lynmar

Sharon is part of a neighbor book club that meets about every two months. With some controversy over what they should read next, Jill organized a trip to Lynmar for lunch. Sharon and I have been there a couple of times [2014, 2016]

They rented a van from Enterprise and got the person who usually housesits for Jill to chauffeur them. The group included Jill, Sharon, Kathy, Judy and Debi.

Hitting the Friday afternoon traffic on the way back, it took them 4 1/2 hours to wind their way home! I spent almost two years going back and forth from Napa to Carmichael; I grew to despise the Friday afternoon traffic...

Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighbor book club that meets about every two months. Thursday night, they met at Judy's house to discuss We Must Be Brave by Frances Liardet.

Sharon could never get into the book. She didn't finish it.

Somewhat surprisingly, their next book is Foundation by Isaac Asimov. Tanya selected it. I probably read that book in the early 1980's. I am going to read it again this summer...

Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighbor book club that meets about every two months. Their book for March was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens..

For their meeting this month, Sharon organized a trip to a few of her favorites places. They took a limo to Napa. They wine tasted at Donum and Bouchaine. Afterwards, they had dinner at Ad Hoc in Yountville.

Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighbor book club that meets about every two months. Thursday night, they met at Michelle's house to discuss Less by Andrew Sean Greer.

The book won a number of awards, including: the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; a New York Times Notable Book of 2017; a Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017 and; a San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017. Sharon was not enthusiastic about the book...

Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighbor book club that meets about every two months. Thursday night, they met at our house to discuss Origin by Dan Brown. Sharon selected the book.

Using Jack's projector, a screen that Debi brought and a web site called Dan Brown Origin Visual Companion, they discussed the book by walking through the places, works of art and symbols that Dan Brown describes in the novel. Other than Sharon, no one else in the group had been to Barcelona.

Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighbor book club that meets about every two months. Thursday night, they met around the pool to discuss The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown.

Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighbor book club that meets about every two months. Thursday night, they met at Debi's house to discuss Force of Nature by Jane Harper. Sharon also read The Dry by the same author.

Neighborhood Book Club

Sharon is part of a neighbor book club that meets about every two months. They met last Thursday night to discuss A Saint for all Seasons by J. Courtney Sullivan.

Other books that they have read include: Manhunt:The Twelve Day Search for Lincoln's Killer (Sharon's choice) and The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (Michelle's choice).

I am always looking for books to read. I ended up reading The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair and enjoying it!