A very good read.

The book we read this month for book club was The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig.

All those who attended just loved the book.

His phrases are amazing...The Rembrandt Light of Memory, Finicky and Magical and faithful at the same time, as the cheaper tint of nostalgia never is. Much of the work of my life has been to sort instruction from illusion, and, in the endless picture gallery behind the eye, I have learned to rely on a certain radiance of the detail to bring back the exactitude of the moment.

Rubbing his check as if consulting the wrinkles, Father weighed that argument.

Functional clutter is perhaps the best description of how father managed in the kitchen.

And in my case, Morris Morgan dipped me into Latin like a wick into ready candle wax.

His vocabulary is wonderful, be prepared to need your dictionary on almost every page. I learned: pluviometer, propitiously, proclivity, dray, rusk, autodidacts to name a few. Sandy and Deonna said that they were thrilled to read a book that really challenged them and made them look up words they didnt know.

There are several themes in the books. Two we talked about most are secrets and education.

Evelyn said that her father grew up in the time that this book is set in, so reading it was like hearing her father share stories from his childhood.

There are twists and turns and even as I read it a second time and I knew what was going to happen I was thrilled to see the clues that I missed the first time.

Enjoy!