February bookclub took place on February 15th at my house on Paynes Ford
Road. I had one week to arrive home from England and get my act together!!
Don't know if I succeeded on "the act together" part but we gathered
anyway!!
Since the book was set during World War 2 in Germany and Poland; I
decided to try to stick with German food. I did a German cucumber salad for a
start and served a German pork roasted with potatoes, onions and sauerkraut. It was tasty but it is not a specialty of mine. I had never fixed it before. I
just went to Pinterest, looked up "German Food" and then picked the recipes
I liked. I also did a German Chocolate Cake. Of course we had other delicious
desserts brought in and candy too. Oh yes, I almost forgot the stupid
chocolate-dipped vodka strawberries which were a pain to make, didn't look
anything like the pictures and have sworn to never fix again!!
Now the book!! Everyone seemed to really like the book even though it
was sad!! I didn't realize that we were doing a book about World War 2 right
before this one but they were different enough that we had no trouble getting
through it.
The story tantalized us a bit with the young boy mispronouncing words
so that you had to figure out what he was talking about : "The Furor" and
"Austwitzch". ( I know that is wrong but close enough)!! Like I said earlier,
it had a sad ending but all felt that the whole thing was sad because he ended
up the same way as the other young prisoners; (the Jews in the stripped
uniforms). I know when I saw the movie years ago, it had a profound effect on
me so I wanted to share that. All in all, it was a great evening with a
wonderful group of ladies that I had really missed over the last months!! Sorry
you were unable to make it, Sharon, but we talked about you and we couldn't have
done that if you had been there!! lol.
See you in April for the next one because I am going to be in Florida for
the March one!!
Love, Edna
