Ballet de Lyon Book Club 2.0

Oh, so much better an idea, Chairman Ann! We can just recommend books to each other and if a dialog ensues, so much the better.

This way, I can sneak in the liberry book club pickings as though I am an intellectual and read high-toned tomes, instead of someone who has just completed a trilogy about a knitting club (not particularly a good one, either).

I will excuse you from reading the harrowing book we just completed, Half the Sky, about the oppression of 3rd-world women due to sexual slavery, lack of education, and maternal mortality.

But the next book is Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey, which comes highly recommended by the person who nominated it (moi) and by our unofficial leader, the local librarian, who read it ahead of time and then made her husband and daughter read it too. A quick read, a classic (if you can jerry-rig mysteries into the classic category) that's still highly readable, 60 years after it was written. One of the zillion reviews I read in prep for the nomination party we have annually said, "A mystery about history." In other words, a 20th century detective tackles an historical event (did King Richard III really have his two innocent nephews killed in order to clear a path to the throne in 15th century England?) like it was a contempory crime needing to be solved, rather than just accepting the 500 years of myth and bad history surrounding this event.

And thanks to Chairman Ann for bravely kick-starting the BLBC again.