O&A Book Club for Women
| Tue |
| Dec ’09 15 |
| 6:30 pm |
on the heels of a very successful inaugural meeting last month o&a book club for women announces 2nd book selection: Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl by Marusya Bociurkiw.
meetings will be held every 4-6 weeks at alternating venues. use the image/link above for used or new copies starting as low as $2.46 (as of 11/25/09)
accolades
Finalist,The Golden Crown Literary Award, Lesbian Short Story Essay Collection
Winner, Independent Publisher Award (SILVER), Autobiography/Memoir
Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (GOLD), Autobiography/Memoir
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award, Women’s Memoir/Biography
Shortlisted for the Kobzar Literary Award
One of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2007
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“Traversing decades and continents, Comfort Food for Breakups is an elegiac, sensual, and beguiling memoir about food, family, and personal history . . .. In these intimate vignettes, food—soup, eggs, chocolate truffle cake, perogies—nourishes, comforts, and heals the wounds of the past. * * * Thoughtful, moving, and passionate, Comfort Food for Breakups muses upon the ways in which food intersects with a nexus of hungers: for intimacy, for sex, for home.” –Arsenal Pulp Press
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come join us for great conversation, food, and camaraderie! And as a special bonus, all o&a book club for women members will receive 15% off their dinner at this meeting, and a chance to win a free copy of next month’s book club selection.
when, where, what…etc.
cost: o&a book club Annual Membership dues $15.[wp_cart:Annual Book Club Dues-December 09:price:15.00:end]
15% off dinner for o&a book club members
when: meet up at 6:30, order dinner at 6:45 and book discussion to start shortly thereafter.
where: primi urban cafe, 27 4th street north, downtown st. petersburg, directions & map click here
plan on attending? if you haven not yet paid your annual book club membership dues with the shopping cart above, please do that first, then leave a comment below by noon on Dec. 14, so we know to expect you at this meeting and can reserve proper accommodations.
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Hi, just realized I probably should have made a note when I paid for the dues that I was taking care of both mine and Stephanie’s
See you next week!
Hi,
I am rsvp’ing for the book club and dinner on Dec 15th. already paid my dues and am really looking forward to attending.
thanks,
Alma
No doubt we will have a lively discussion at this meeting! Here are just a few questions we might pursue:
1. were the recipes an asset to this book? how did they affect your relationship to these stories and the author?
2. what did you think of the author’s descriptions of food, more generally? how did it affect the stories?
3. what did you think about the author’s description of people (especially those important to her) in this book?
4. overall, did the author’s writing style appeal to you? did it serve the author’s purpose? and how did it affect the images projected in your mind as you read the book? (what was the tone or quality of the images, if you could relate it to a style of photography, for example?)
5. apart from food, what other threads connect the chapters of this book?
6. the book seems to take a shift at the end of the “Potatoes” chapter – what was the shift?
7. why does the author describe herself as a hungry girl?
Not sure if I need to RSVP for the book club tomorrow, but I will be there!
Yes! We appreciate the rsvp so we have a headcount! Thanks, Jessica. See you tomorrow!
Thanks to all for such a great discussion! Loved hearing your thoughts about this wonderful book, and sharing such a good meal. Special welcome to O&A newcomers Karen, Kasey, and Alma. And congrats to Karen on being this month’s book award winner!