Showing posts with label Nobel Prize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nobel Prize. Show all posts

Friday, November 19, 2010

Journal quilt: Book Club tackles Llosa

  This week, Books N Laps met at my house to discuss Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Nobel Prize winner, Mario Vargas Llosa.  There were ten of us in attendance, and my arranging the chairs and the coffee cups in my deep red living room show up in this journal quilt.
   I didn't know where all the red came from except the novel set in Peru was exciting, like red; my living room colors are similar, which I just realized; and the cover of the book sports these exact colors. Granted there was the buzz of organizing the house (crafts people know about clearing paths), the arrival of a lively dog, gathering food and making the pumpkin bars...all added to my having gotten only 5 hours sleep, hoping not to reveal that I had made it only 3/4 the way through the dazzling novel which I plan to finish now.