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I have a proposal, since I don’t think we have picked a day yet. It would be easy to remember if we meet the Wednesday following our monthly meeting, for now at noon. What do you think?
Good idea
April 29th at noon. That works!
I'll add it to my busy calendar! 😀
I thought I heard somebody say we're only reading the first part for the 29th. Is that right? We need to make sure everyone knows that because maybe all the book club members weren't at the meeting where that was discussed.
That’s right, up to page 152 only.
Here's the URL for our Book Club zoom meeting on April 29 12:00 Noon:
Meeting ID: 895 1193 2557
Meeting Password: 56943984 (Password is encrypted in the meeting URL)
Phone (if you don't use computer audio):
Meeting ID: 895 1193 2557
Phone Password: 56943984
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbUH0bO3TO
Ok, I'll be there. I'm almost finished with the book at this point.
Hi everyone, just a reminder that we meet tomorrow at noon. Hope you can make it! The zoom link is right here on the forum, in John‘s post. Please let others know if you think they might be unaware. See you soon!
I started the 2nd part tonight & got right into it. As each character entered the scene, I was able to remember the previous stories about them. I was glad Olivia didn't die & I like her now even though she seems nuts. That Thespian couple is depressing. No thoughts on Mimi yet. Doug seems like a pretty good guy. Looking forward to picking it up again tomorrow. I knew this would happen but didn't expect it this fast.
Thanks, Sue, for your persistence in getting this going! It’s a really nice change of pace, and fun to have something different to look forward to!
Related to our reading in Overstory: Many of you may have seen the article about the American Chestnut in today's New York Times - if not, here's the link: Can Genetic Engineering Bring Back the American Chestnut?
The scientists most responsible for the work described in the article are from State University of New York Syracuse. Coincidentally, my son Sean's GF Alice is exploring a Phd program at that university in mycology.
The Overstory section that made references to Douglas Fir was especially meaningful to me. I grew up in Southern Oregon in the heart of timber country. In the Summer the highways were dominated by logging trucks by the hundreds, and everyone I knew was touched in one way or the other by the timber industry. I had a job myself working in a sawmill the summer between my freshman and sophomore college years.
We were intimately aware of and cynical of the practice of leaving a couple hundred yards of trees standing along the highways while decimating the hundreds of thousands of acres of virgin forest that lay behind the screen. The virgin forests were populated with gigantic Douglas Fir. Now they are all gone, with just a few relics that escaped by virtue of their inaccessible location. All the others cheerfully and enthusiastically cut down, the land laid waste.
From my perspective, most of what passes today as “forests,” are really not forests. They are farms. Actual Douglas Fir forests are pretty much gone forever.
You can find lots of these kinds of pictures on the internet.