So for November we are reading two books.
Fiction: The Guernesy Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Non- Fiction: My Stroke of Insight
The Guernsey Lieterary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society is about writer who finds herself homeless and restless in London after World War II. Her spur-of-the-moment journey to Guernsey Island, provoked by a letter from a stranger who has found her address in a book she once owned, takes her away from the life of glamour and superficial relationships that she thought she loved and exposes her to something new.
My Strok of Insight is about JillBolte Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained and published brainscientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyesof a curious neuroanatomist, she watched her mind completelydeteriorate whereby she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recallany of her life. Because of her understanding of how the brain works,her respect for the cells composing her human form, and an amazingmother, Jill completely recovered her mind, brain and body..