Book Club

Well I recently joined a brand new book club. Actually it was started by one of the girls from my boot camp class that meets 3 times a week at 6:30am. We are hard core! Anyway, so we all thought it would be cool to do a book club. So far, we have only had one meeting last Friday night. We read the book, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, and pretty much no one liked it. Oh well, it was still a great time. We met at Gloria's house who organized the club, and she cooked us a very nice and healthy meal. It was all around a fun night. So the thing with our book club is that we take turns having around different people's houses and choosing a book to recommend. This one was chosen by Gloria, and next we are Ellie's and to be reading P.S. I Love You which is admittedly trash by Ellie who recommended it. Anyway, I am sure it will be much more fun to read than this last one which was pretty sad all around. The theme of the book is a first generation Ukrainian family with 2 sisters trying to take care of their aging father (after the death of their mother) with his issues of getting involved with a younger woman from Ukraine who is just after UK residency. The relationships are all very strained but it is clear that everyone is trying to do what they think is right while accepting their lot in life. She (the author) seems to have captured the tone of life post-refugee camp and life post-war. These characters, we decided, were not developed as much as they could have been, especially the male characters. It was also pretty difficult to get into and a bit slow moving, the slowest parts being the interjected chapters of a book about tractors written by the aging father. So, that is my short, short history of the sad book about tractors in Ukraine.