Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, Maria Semple
host: Lindsay
number of voters: 11
percentage of voters who
finished the book: 100
highest rating: 9.75
lowest rating: 7
average rating: 8.78
menu: Christmas party! Snacks
galore!
*****
From: A. Reader
To: Members of the First
Monday Reading Group (aka Final Monday Reading Group aka FMRG aka Book Group)
RE: Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
Hello, LADIES!
As you all well know, last
month we read Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple. And as you also
know, WE LOVED IT. A quick rundown
of all the adjectives we used to describe this book: fun, quirky, unique, engaging, entertaining, satirical, hilarious,
unbelievable (in a good way!), insightful,
witty, intelligent, mysterious un-put-down-a-ble (okay, I made that one
up).
Well, what more is there to
say? A LOT APPARENTLY! I am pleased
to announce that due to our high praise of Bernadette
and our longstanding presence in the community at large the local Readers and
Educators Association and Directive (READ, for short) has asked us to host the REGIONAL ANNUAL DISCUSSION and INTERVIEW CONVENTION AMONG LITERARY-TYPES (RADICAL) for
2014!
I don’t need to tell you what
an incredible honor this is. Obviously we will need to put the idea up for a
vote, and I urge you all to vote either 5 stars or perfect 10. Anything less
than 4.5 stars or a 9 (whichever is higher... and by the way do we have a star/numerical
conversion committee in place?) and we will forfeit the opportunity to the
Tuesday Night Readers of Greater Oregon. I do not need to point out that the TNRGO have already hosted the READ RADICAL for the
past 5 years.
I urge you all to recommend Bernadette to all your friends; I am
confident you will have no trouble doing this, as you all loved the book. Also,
please refrain from mentioning anything about the parts of the book you found
slightly distasteful. Instead, you may refer to this list of approved talking
points: PNW/Microsoft setting! Clever
format! Facts about architecture and Antarctica—and architecture in Antarctica!
Contemporary cultural references!
That’s all for now. Let’s win
this one for the First (or Final) Monday Reading Group!
Sincerely,
A. Reader
p.s. If you needed any more reason not to let those girls over at TNRGO host their sixth straight RADICAL, check out the gift they gave to the READ committee in an attempt to win them over and you can see what we are up against:
(Source: http://www.mariasemple.com/whered-you-go-bernadette-praise/)
