Welcome to the new Afternoon Zoom Book Group, which is an off-shoot from Auntie's AM Book Group. While the AM group will continue to meet at the store, this group will be conducted via Zoom and the link is sent out to anyone who wishes to attend. You can request the Zoom link by emailing Linda at auntiesbooks@gmail.com.
We have quite a line-up of books this year, so we look forward to some interesting and fun discussions! Join us, won't you?!
For more information click here to visit the book club webpage.
September Selection
In September we will be discussing Where I Was From by Joan Didion.
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline” (The Baltimore Sun), Didion—a native Californian—reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours.
Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.
Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.
Leader: Linda (she/her)
Contact: auntiesbooks@gmail.com
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline” (The Baltimore Sun), Didion—a native Californian—reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours.