First of all, the club is called Well Red due to the amount of red wine that we consume during our meetings. Eating fancy finger foods, drinking wine, and discussing a good book with wise and wonderful women is definitely one of my favorite things. In February, we read Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - a classic book that starts out slow but leaves you wide-eyed and aghast at the end. In March, we read Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis - a galactic fantasy that blows your mind and makes you question a lot of things you once assumed about God, the Earth, humans, and sin. I'm looking forward to re-reading Persuasion by Jane Austen for April. Books gain so much more meaning and emphasis when you get to discuss them with others!
At our last meeting, only a few of us could make it, but we ended up staying and talking for 5 hours! Since this is some of the only community that I get all week, I just soak it up! Thankfully, my second part-time job is almost over, so I will hopefully have a little more time to invest in friendships. I can't even remember the last time I got to just "hang out". I am so ready for some time to breathe!
Quote of the month for February:
"I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered,
and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of
shyness and reserve, and to their blindness and folly built up a great
distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth." – Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Quote of the month for March:
“And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.” Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
ooh fun books to read too! I never join book clubs because the books usually stink.
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