bookclub......

ok, so....i lectured on 2 chapters between leaving work and arriving at bookclub...which was somewhat exhausting.....the talking-too-fast so as to make it to my next event before everybody got settled in to the book...a collection of essays by b. kingsolver.....one that i recall as being a tad preachy...especially to the choir.....those who are not environmentally sensitive would never have gotten past the 3rd piece.....i was at a loss with the discussion...because i not only read the book first out of two of us.....i read it long enough ago that i could not remember any of the essays in enough detail to give learned commentary......which sets a collection of essays apart from fiction...the plot that drives the prose leaves subtle markers....so that one can pick up a book much later and be able to find passages that were memorable based on just about how far you were in the reading when the words leaped off the page...so to speak.....ah well.....i had looked forward to the evening, because the hostess has a wired-hair terrier....like our late dog oscar......but he was confined to his own space somewhere out of our hearing, and i didn't get to nuzzle with her....even for just a moment.....i did however take mental note of the trips brought up as examples throughout the evening...the caribbean, hawaii, the southwest, the rockies.....that were conjured up by kingsolvers prose....these mental pictures from a person who point blank told my spouse that he could never see himself affording a trip to france....i have no doubt that a person could spend more on a long-weekend jaunt to any of those spots than we are spending on this trip of ours.....but the perception is there...that paris is extravagant....and somehow colorado is....not.....?...tickets to denver are never cheap.....ah well... the next book is the namesake....which is in the trunk of my car...for which i have explanation......