Wednesday, August 13, 2008

August Evening Book Club Meeting

Welcome to new member Judith and welcome back to Doris.

We sure had a great discussion last night about the book "Consumption" by Kevin Patterson. We talked about how rapid the change was for the Inuit community and how it affected the different generations and their relationships with each other. This also reflects how we live now.

Kevin Patterson:"The Inuit moved from the most traditonal hunter-gatherer lifestyle to the Facebook era in about 15 minutes. Until the late sixties, there were still Inuit living on the land, hunting caribou and seal--even today, when one is talking to someone 50 or older, the chances are good that their childhood was spent in migration, watching the geese and the weather and arctic char, as their ancestors did for thousands, even millions of years...but the subsequent pace of change has been violently fast...Disaffected teenagers, heart disease, and depression are examples of this."

So you can see that there was a lot to talk about.

The September book is "Septembers of Shiraz" by Dalia Sofer