Last night we had our second successful book club meeting. December's book was The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
Everyone liked it, though not at much as The Book Thief. Part-Time Indian was about a Native American teenager growing up on a reservation and choosing to leave the reservation to go to a better high school. It was partially auto-biographical, so I found it really interesting to gain some insight into a community that I'm not familiar with. For January, we'll be reading The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Feel free to join in.
And then this morning, Johnny and I woke up to this! It's our first snow of the season that actually stuck. This snow also pointed out that we apparently have a cat that comes to our back door at night. Lovely.
I liked this book. It really made you think about the Native American community. It wasn't always cheerful, but that's ok.
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