Our Next Meeting

Our next meeting will be held on October 12th, 2013 at the Ladysmith Library from 1-3 PM.

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Summer Break




Everyone truly enjoyed Big Stone Gap; the quirky characters and rural dialect left the book feeling very familiar and nostalgic for just about every member of our little club. Trigiani’s mention  of Sanka and use of words like “feriner” (meaning “foreigner” in mountain-Virginian) left everyone laughing. The plot, however, had a few holes that could stand to be filled. Not all of the legality of the story made perfect sense – but then, it doesn’t necessarily have to. Big Stone Gap was exactly what it was supposed to be: a charming, small-town romance with a taste for adventure.

In the coming months, the Ladysmith Book Club will be taking a summer holiday. We will not meet again until September 14th, when everyone’s busy schedules allow more time for things like book club meetings. This blog, however, will be active and I hope everyone takes a little time this summer to let us all know how they’re doing, in regards to all things life and literature.

This summer, to fill the rare empty hours that need filling, we will be reading three books: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1984 (or Nineteen Eighty-Four, depending on the bookseller) by George Orwell, and Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. None of these books are particularly long, but all fall under the category “I should have read this decades ago”. Just for my own ease and sanity, I’ll be reading the books one at a time and in the order listed above, but feel free to read in any order. We’ll discuss all three at September’s meeting.

Have a wonderful summer, everyone!