Our New Read

Alecia has chosen our book for May.  We will be reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. Here is an overview of what it is about.

Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive.

So pick up a copy at the local library.  We checked and made sure there are plenty of copies available.  Happy Reading!

Debby's Tuesday Teaser

"So where does this leave us? Why do I need this man at all? I need him only because I happen to adore him, because his company gives me gladness and comfort, and because, as a friend's grandfather once put it, "Sometimes life is too hard to be alone and sometimes life is too good to be alone."  The same goes for Felipe: He needs me only for my companionship as well.  Seems like a lot, but it isn't much at all; it is only love.  And a love based-marriage does not guarantee the lifelong binding contract of a clan-based marriage or an asset-based marriage; it cannot.  By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later - again, for its own mysterious reasons."

page 80 Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert (a sequel to Eat, Pray, Love)