Some announcements: The Texas Book Festival was another big success, with over 300 authors and good weather. Amanda Eyre Ward will be speaking at Georgetown Library. At the Round Rock Library there will be a Literary Matters Trivia Night (Tuesday, November 10th, 7 PM) and the First Annual Literary Festival (Saturday, Nov. 14th, from 1 to 5). Carol will nominate in December (for February), and Patty will nominate in January (for March).
Before Cindy T. led the discussion of The Martian, Jay nominated for the book we will discuss in January. We chose Too Close to the Falls, by Catherine Gildiner, a memoir of her growing up near Niagara NY, covering her life from age 4 to 12, during which she helped in her Dad's pharmacy and delivered drugs to his customers (including Marilyn Monroe's sleeping pills). Jay also recommends Gildiner's subsequent memoirs, After the Falls (ages 12-21) and Coming Ashore (in her 20's). Books nominated but not chosen were Richard Russo's The Risk Pool (a novel about the father he never knew), and Jenna Blum's Those Who Save Us (a novel about how non-Jews dealt with the Holocaust). Frank will be getting in copies of Too Close to the Falls for us, and some of her later books if we want to continue reading the compelling memoirs about her life.
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