It is really cheating to title this post as I have as we are riding the bus to retrieve the van and head north out of the projected Hurricane impact areas. A longish ride with one quick contort stop, load gear and bikes in the van and we are away.. to get lunch.
We sometimes eat in one of the myriad chain restaurants that abound along the highway, often alongside a vast shopping malls. They are not so bad as I paint the few we have in dear old Oz. We get fresh food, soup, salad, sandwiches - not just burger and fries. When I do have burger and fries I do enjoy them.
Late in the day we arrive at Leisa's house in Virginia Beach. It is book club night and the discussion is shared over a bowl of delicious soup. Their book this month is Q&A, on which the film Slumdog Millionaire is based. Of the four one read it to the end, one didn't get to it and the others had not completed it. This is not so much because of the book as it is the film which intrudes in the reader's memory. That and time ... typical of any book club I've ever heard of.
Shortly after when someone mentioned another book all six around the table exclaimed with enthusiasm. Discussion was truncated when it transpired that not all had finished reading it yet but we all recommend it to you - All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, Simon and Schuster, 2014. I thank Maureen Mitchell for recommending it to me.
Finished off the night with a lovely cup of teja and a homemade brownie. Good finish.
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