27th
December
2006
The Orange Beach Reading Group will meet at 3 PM on Tuesday, January 9 to discuss Dave Eggers’ book “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius“. The Wednesday group will meet on January 17 @ 3PM to discuss a chosen cookbook. The idea here, was to choose a cookbook with some special recipe or story that resonates with you. We will discuss the role of food in family traditions and the stories that grow up around certain menus and food items. Does Springtime mean crawfish to you? It does to me! Do moon pies mean Mardi Gras to you? Then you grew up in or around Mobile. Louisiana Mardi Gras parades do not traditionally throw moon pies! Coconuts, yes! Moon pies, no! Although the throwing of coconuts has been outlawed now. You can imagine why.
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14th
December
2006
WE had a nice, discussion of Carl Hiaasen’s young adult book “Flush”. We talked about the moral and ethical responsibility of all of us in taking action when we see the environment being harmed. We are pretty sure that Hiaasen usually shows in his books, a right way to act and a wrong way to act. Sinking a boat is probably not the best reaction to have to stop someone dumping. The use of the dye in the tanks was apparently a more proper response and it got the job done. We did conclude that situations need to be treated as they occur and that there is not always a blanket solution for each situation. Anyway we kept veering around to discussion about the war …. and well… you know how we do. Fun and it is always interesting to hear what others have to say about a book. It seems it was a pretty good choice for December.
REMEMBER!! The WEdnesday group is NOT meeting in December. No book was chosen.
The Tuesday group is reading Dave Egger’s “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” for the January meeting.
I would like to propose a bit of reading for the Wednesday group in January….one of my coworkers suggested it. cooking and entertaining are uppermost in our minds as the holidays approach. We all have our heads in our favorite recipes and cookbooks (and some just open their favorite menu!). How about for January’s Wednesday meeting, we each pick a cookbook we like or one we’ve never read with stories and recipes in it. You know, like the “Sundays at Moosewood”, or a Paul Prudhomme or any of those. I think that also Fannie Flagg’s cookbooks have stories in them. so we could read the stories and then discuss how they relate to the food being cooked and the recipes. I think Paula Dean also shares stories in her cookbooks. Anyway, its just a thought. Let me know what you all think and hopefully we’ll see everyone in Jan. on the third Wednesday.
Merry Christmas to all of you.
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