I thought I’d start a new blog only posting stuff I feel comfortable sharing with my Facebook friends should they choose to visit. Current information on what I’m doing, where I’m going, how I’m feeling.
Tonight was one of the favourite once monthly evenings; my book club meeting. The book we were to have read and met to discus was The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy. This novel is now a finalist in Canada Reads 2010. I really hope that his novel is the one selected though there are four others hoping to be chosen THE BOOK.
Our group discussion on this book was seriously lacking in enthusiasm. I read the book about 1998 and was able to get a copy to read at this time so my recollections of the story were a bit dim. A few of the readers at the club did not like the book at all – probably not enough action. Most were ho-hum and perhaps two were enthusiastic.
What the book did bring to light for me is how even fairly well educated people have sometimes very limited interests and outlook. None of them were very familiar with the Chinese culture, though some are more so now – the rememberance of the way the Chinese were treated in Canada dis not bow them down with a painful empathy as it does me. I was always fascinated with the Chinese and their culture – at one time their culture was light years ahead of ours. What happened?
A lot happened.
