Happy New Year my friends! In Scotland it's called Hogmanay and the festivities include first-footing which dictates that the first visitor of the new year must come into your house with ceremonial gifts including: coal, shortbread, a black bun, and what else, whiskey. That place is crazy.
Anyway, thanks to all who were able to make it to discuss Never Let Me Go. I was really pleased that everyone seemed to enjoy this book and find something provocative in it. If you missed the meeting and still want to talk about the book, we can do some re-hashing either at the next meeting OR pick a date to watch the movie (David downloaded it for us) and then talk more about it then.
The January book is Andrea's choice and she has graciously offered to host the meeting in early February with an exact date to be determined. The book is Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. As Andrea mentioned, this is another dystopian one (many of her novels use that setting but this one takes it to the top, apparently) but I think it will be very interesting to compare the vision of dystopia in this one as compared to Never Let Me Go. There are some similar themes throughout.
Here is a podcast of the author discussing Oryx and Crake back in 2007.
LadyBooks for Ladies now has a group on Shelfari as well. LBLs is infiltrating the 'Net!
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