I am so sorry, Readers. I don’t know what happened. I sat down dutifully to do my November blogging only to realize that November is over. I lost a month. How? What on Earth was I doing, and was alien abduction involved? I’m so confused.
Unlike November, which I skipped accidentally, I generally do skip most of December. We will be back with our irregular programming in January.
This month we are reading The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj, by Anne de Courcy. We’ll be discussing the book at Arden Dimick Library at 10:30AM on November 18th. Please note that this date is early! Usually Book Club meets on the fourth Saturday of each month, but in November we have it a week earlier to accomodate Thanksgiving travel.
The Fishing Fleet is a nonfiction book about the women who travelled to India from England in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries in search of husbands. One of these women was my great-grandaunt. Another, and much earlier, member of the Fishing Fleet was an older relative of Jane Austen’s.
Here are some reviews of the book:
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The Journal of Poorly-Explained Phenomena
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