by T Wilson | Nov 30, 2024 | Senior Book Break
Subject: Food Fast and Delicious Mexican Meals by Alice Guadalupe Tapp and California Soul by Keith Corbin Our reader remembers tasting the most glorious fresh corn tamales in San Diego in 1975. He has been hunting for them ever since. His search led him to these two...
by T Wilson | Oct 21, 2024 | Senior Book Break
Subject John Steinbeck Flight, a short story For centuries Big Sur residents spoke of “The Dark Watchers.” John Steinbeck grew up in Salinas and spoke of them in this short story. In the tale a teenage Indigenous Mexican American boy kills a man and is forced to flee...
by T Wilson | Aug 19, 2024 | Senior Book Break
Senior Book Break Subject: Odd Couples A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Count Alexander Rostov, born into Russian aristocracy, finds himself in Moscow at the time of the Russian Revolution. Sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the luxury hotel, Metropol, he...
by T Wilson | Jul 29, 2024 | Senior Book Break
Crocodile on The Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters Our heroine is Emily Peabody in the first of six books. Our reader said she did not get to Egypt till 20 pages before the middle of the book. She found it very wordy, tedious, and skipped around even within a paragraph. ...
by T Wilson | May 6, 2024 | Senior Book Break
Senior Book Break Subject: Children Suggestions for our next Book Break meeting is at the end. Wild Poppies by Haya Saleh Two brothers fight to reunite amidst the turmoil of the Syrian War. This is a story of kids in a war zone. The book details the difficulties of...
by T Wilson | Apr 16, 2024 | Senior Book Break
Subject: Plants Note: GBCL after title means it is available in our library. Skin and Other Stories by Roald Dahl This is a short story, The Sound Machine, about a man named Klausner, who gets to wondering about why humans are not able to hear dog whistles. What if...
