AHEB #2

Fun meeting on Tuesday night :) Cristina, Amy, Gerald & I had a great discussion about the AHEB book and its members. We talked about characters in the book that we can relate to. It's interesting to see how the characters are so developed, but also sort of cliche. The cliche hippy in the book, Slip, can sort of be applied to Cris, but not wholly. These are the types of chats we have at our meetings!

On Oprah yesterday, they were talking about happiness. One way to increase your happines as much as doubling your salary is to join a club! I can say from experience that this club has not only given me something to look forward to on Tuesday evenings, but it truly has increased my sense of happiness. We are able to come together and discuss our perspectives - and I think each of us leaves with a sense of contributing to something real & intellectual. It's fun & thought provoking, and I thank each of you that have attended a meeting and shared in this experience. I hope you feel the same happiness that I do with our conversations!

This Tuesday, we're supposed to read up to part 4 - but feel free to read ahead & finish the book. I found that as I finished up Part 3, I really wanted to keep going. We can talk Tuesday about how far everyone got...

Happy (really!) Reading!
Nikki

AHEB meeting #1

Fun meeting! Welcome, Gerald to the book club!! Our first male perspective :)

Admittedly, no one was totally caught up with the reading for this week. For next week, we're planning to read Part 1 & Part 2 of the book. (There are 4 parts, so we figured to plan on one each week).

There are a TON of discussion questions online for this book - we'll begin to tackle those next week! Hope to see you all then!

Discussion :)

Thanks to our new friend Amy for coming to tonight's meeting! We had an excellent time discussing "The Scent of Rain & Lightning." Here are two questions from LitLovers to ponder as you finish the book:

• The book revolves around the theme of revenge. What does this novel tell us about the nature of revenge?
• The theme of forgiveness also plays a large role in the novel. How does this story reveal the challenges of forgiveness? Are the characters clearly in one camp or the other (revenge or forgiveness)? If so, how would you divide them? And which characters bridge these emotions?

We've also picked our next book! Two weeks from tonight, we'll have our first discussion of "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons." It's available super cheap on Amazon - try buying used if you've never done so before! It has 448 pages, so we'll plan on reading the first 100 (or so - wherever that chapter ends) for the January 18 meeting.

Happy Reading! Hope to see you all in the next couple of weeks :)