Not Your Oprah’s Bookclub

Please Note: The meeting date has changed

This month, we’re started our first in a the series of member-selected books. January’s pick, Kindred by Octavia Butler was recommended by Laurie Delaney, who will also lead our discussion. Thank you Laurie! We’re meeting on Tuesday Jan. 27th at 7:00, but this time, Laurie and I decided to keep it cheap for the beer drinking and wing chomping among us, and thus, we’ll meet at the Inner Circle Pizza on YSU’s campus.

Here is a brief description of the Kindred from Amazon.com:

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back again and again for Rufus, yet each time the stay grows longer and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana”s life will end, long before it has even begun.

So it seems there’s this magically realistic, Quantum Leap thing going on.

Intrigued!

I also tracked down this interesting interview with the author at wab.org (Writers and Books)

Just a head’s up, February’s book (meeting date TBA) is The Little Prince, suggested by Rob Joki.