Exit West Recap

Happy Patriots Day!  Many of you may know Rudy is out running today.  So far it looks like he's making good time and approaching the half way mark.  I had a lot of sympathy for the players and fans in attendance at the Red Sox game yesterday, but I can't imagine those that have planned and trained around the Marathon to have to deal with today's weather. Send him your thoughts and good wishes on this cold, rainy, blustery day....


Thanks everyone for your flexibility in making the Thursday meeting last week and for the lively and thoughtful discussion of Exit West, that in many ways flew in the face of my belief that you need a more divided view to facilitate a great conversation.

 As I mentioned, our next meeting will be back to a Wednesday night on May 9th.  A fairly quick turn around but we have a very short read in Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, a giant killer and the overall winner of the 2018 Tournament of Books.  It joins the ranks of some of our most popular previous selections like:  A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Sisters Brothers,  and The Orphan Master's Son.   Unlike most selections, I have yet to read this one so feel free to offer your unvarnished opinions this time!

Lastly, some sad news that Philip Kerr, author of the Bernie Gunther novels (we read A Quiet Flame) died on March 27th at the age of 62.  His most recent iteration in his series, Greeks Bearing Gifts, was just published last week.  Barton passed along this NY Times obituary.