Last night was another wonderful meeting of the book club. A huge thanks for everyone for pitching in and pulling together the meeting at mine and Dale's house. Thanks for Juli for the salad, Shannon for the bread and spinach dip, Sam and Anjanette for the pies, Stacey for the snacks and Tripp for the coffee...not to mention all the wine everyone brought.
Up next will be
Life of Pi by Yann Martel at Stacey's house om May 20th.
Last night, Shannon also presented her pick for the June selection and it will be
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. After reading the jacket, I personally am very excited for this book. Here is a blurb from amazon.com:
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From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile,
