Sunday, July 19, 2015

July 17 - The Martian

Seven of us gathered around the fire pit at Lisa's to discuss The Martian. Lisa had some theme food for us (potato salad, which was "a little chipoltle" and incredible), a yummy kale (from Charlie's garden) and rice casserole, and strawberry cake (100% from scratch). The rest of us filled in with appetizers, except for the Karens. Karen S. brought us a cooling watermelon gazpacho and Karen M. supplied us with Mars Bar cookies in abstentia (we missed you!).

After our usual general chat, we had a long discussion about the book. I believe everyone who read it liked it. I admit, I put it down, but it sounds like I gave up just before it got more interesting as more characters and viewpoints were added. Also interesting: needing to know how the main character fared drove some of us who never read the end first to do just that. The book itself is a great rags-to-riches story; not only is it a first novel, it was self-published and did so well a mainstream publisher picked up. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Matt Damon and directed by Ridley Scott, I see a Book Soup movie outing in our future!

NEXT MEETING
Where: Becky's pool
When: Mid-to-late August
What: The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl


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