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Our Souls by Kent Haruf ~ July 18 ~ July Book Club Online
BarbStAubrey:
My book arrived from Amazon - timing on this is not good for me - my daughter arrives from NC on the 18th and I have been working on a transaction that is unbelievably difficult - but I want to read this with the group so I may be haphazard with posts.
Ella Gibbons:
Great! THANKS! Perhaps we should mention a few honors the author received: Whiting Foundation Writers' Award, the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Award, the Wallace Stegner Award , a finalist the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New Yorker Book Award.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/what-novelist-kent-haruf-taught-me-about-writing-and-life/2015/06/24/2560bf8e-1378-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html
Ella Gibbons:
AND: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/books/kent-haruf-sublime-novelist-of-small-town-life-dies-at-71.html?_r=0
Ella Gibbons:
A fellow we would all like to have met, looks like a gentle soul, good husband, good man. I have requested his other books from my library.
Ella Gibbons:
We are all going to be DISCUSSION LEADERS HERE. Ask and answer questions!
This is just something to whet your appetite for the book.
The novel starts with the word "And." "And then there was the day...." Words that we might use to start a conversation with a friend.
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