The blog lives!

Emily Robertson, we sure miss you. Thank you for maintaining this blog and keeping such a great record for book club. Looking back through the archives brings up so many memories of evenings spent with friends, talking about our lives AND our books! For a girl who was always happiest with her "nose in a book" it is a dream come true to belong to such an interesting group of women.

Last month we met at Lisa Joyner's house to discuss To Kill a Mockingbird. It was a great night, and it was very interesting to see how much this book continues to resonate with modern readers. We even had a teenager in our company (Alyssa Beckstead came with her mom.) Thanks Lisa, for both your insight and hospitality!

We also discussed what we would like to read throughout the rest of the year, and I am putting together a schedule now. If you have suggestions please contact me.

Here's our next book:

May Book
Bloodroot
By Amy Greene
(291 pp)
Discussant: Laura Lease
Date: May 3, 2011 at 7pm
Location: 1020 W Canyon Creek Ct, Watkinsville (Amy's house)

Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies - of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss - that haunt one family across the generations, from the Great Depression to today.

Thank you for the suggestion and offer to lead the discussion, Laura. I just finished Bloodroot and haven't stopped thinking about it. The characters, setting, and story seem to have worked some "magic" on me.

See y'all in May!