For February!

Hello Everyone!

Thanks for coming to the meeting yesterday! For anyone that missed it, we made haiku poems and talked about the short stories. I think "To Build a Fire" was just marginally the favorite story.

We also picked the novel for next time which will be Tuesdays with Morrie. You can buy a digital copy or order a soft cover from Amazon. It's a TRUE story about the relationship between the author, Mitch Albom, and a former professor he had while attending university. And the next meeting will be February 20th at 6:15 pm!

Here's a little blurb about the book from Wikipedia.org:

Albom's breakthrough book came about after a friend of his viewed Morrie Schwartz's interview with Ted Koppel on ABC News Nightline in 1995, in which Schwartz, a sociology professor, spoke about living and dying with a terminal disease, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease). Albom, who had been close with Schwartz during his college years at Brandeis, felt guilty about not keeping in touch so he reconnected with his former professor, visiting him in suburban Boston and eventually coming every Tuesday for discussions about life and death. Albom, seeking a way to pay for Schwartz's medical bills, sought out a publisher for a book about their visits. Although rejected by numerous publishing houses, the idea was accepted by Doubleday shortly before Schwartz's death, and Albom was able to fulfill his wish to pay off Schwartz's bills.^[11]

The book, Tuesdays with Morrie, was published in 1997, a small volume that chronicled Albom's time spent with his professor. The initial printing was 20,000 copies. Word of mouth grew the book sales slowly and a brief appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" nudged the book onto the New York Times bestseller's list in October 1997. It steadily climbed, reaching the No. 1 position six months later. It remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 205 weeks. One of the top selling memoirs of all time,^[12] Tuesdays With Morrie has sold over 14 million copies and has been translated into 41 languages