Hi everyone! We had a wonderful lunch at Nese's yesterday and quite a lively discussion!! It was terrific, but we missed everyone who couldn't come. Thank you Nese!!!

I am supposed to have book club in May, but I am going to be out of town and wonder if anyone could switch with me. I would really appreciate it!! I could do it in July, August, October or November/December. Thanks so much.

Book Club This Thursday March 26

Hi friends. It's time for book club again. It will be this Thursday, March 26 at 12:30. Please let me know whether or not you can come. Nese.

Tess

Well Christa may be right about the long descriptions but I do like some of them. I was hooked again by the second sentence of the book. It reads, "The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line." I would have written, "He was either old or drunk and walked with a limp." How boring! I do like having to read and think!!

Tess!

I've read about 50 pages of Tess. It is very readable....the story is compelling. So much foreshadowing. ARGH!!!! And I can not believe her parents. They are driving me crazy. I'm just reading past the MANY vocabulary words I don't know. It would slow me down too much to look up all those words....and I'm getting the idea of the story really well without knowing every word. Has anyone else out there started????? Whew! Nese.