February 18 Meeting at Rosa's

Buona sera e benvenuti al nostro corso serale.

After traversing luge style though the mountains of snow that is the current terrain in Berkeley County, we all arrived at Rosa's casa for an Italian feast.  She served appetizers, wonderful cheese ball, salad, baked ziti with "gravy", Italian bread with herbal olive oil and wine.  This was all in keeping with this month's book selection "Evening Classes" by Maeve Binchey.  Once again a lively discussion commenced after Rosa tested us with several Italian phrases from the book. As a group, we all passed with flying colors.  There were many characters, which is Binchey's style and all were intertwined which made for an interesting read.  In the end all agreed that Signora who had a knack for transforming the lives of everyone she meets was by far the primo character.  Louisa and Edna, however, didn't agree with Signora's choice to spend 25 years "sewing in her window".  We ended our meeting with an array of desserts including biscotti, panettone, carrot cake, cream puffs and Irish decorated cupcakes.....now where did that come from, oh yeah “Evening Classes” did take place in Ireland.

Alice introduced her book "Reading Lolita in Tehran" by Azar Nafisi for next month's book club meeting on March 18.  Let Alice know if you will or will not be attending the meeting.

A reminder, if you have any books you would like to share, please bring them to our meetings. If you have suggestions for books, please email me or "Comment" on this bog and I will start a list of Recommended Books.

Pick up a few books, looks like this is going to be one very white winter.

Stay warm and see you on March 18th if not sooner,

Kathy G