From My Corner of the Universe

I went to the Barnes & Noble Book Club meetup yesterday to go over the selected book, American Dirt. You can read my review here. It was interesting because I felt like I had to defend the Mexicans (and to think I was bullied by them growing up), not the ones in the story, but the real ones. Thankfully, the meet wasn’t crazy like what our moderator told us about one at a different store. The moderator said they had security guards and called in police officers because it got way heated. Ours was very laid back. Most the ladies (unfortunately, we didn’t and don’t have any men attending) are older and/or retired. This meet was one of the more interesting meets, I’d have to say.

I bypassed purchasing the next book for the book club because I’ll probably buy the ebook instead, that’s if I do attend the next one. However, I did buy these other books.

Heard good stuff about A Man Called Ove. It was made into a movie in 2015 (Swedish), but there is a remake in the works with Tom Hanks as the main character. Also heard good stuff about The Tattooist of Auschwitz. These two books were buy-one-get-one-at-50%-off, and it’s probably not that great of a deal but, why not. As for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, my 12th grader asked for this book. She didn’t say why, just that she wanted to read it. I haven’t read it myself, so maybe I’ll add it to my TBR list.