Bluestem is kind of a backroom extension of French Meadow restaurant and it proved to be an agreeable choice with a nice menu and generous helpings. Too bad the place was hopping and the service very slow (not the waiter's fault). The book was also agreeable to most of us. A fantasy about an isolated place--Shangri-La-- where people are happy and long-lived and practice moderation in all things, Lost Horizon captures a moment in time between the world wars in which people could only hope that escape from a threatening world was possible.
The next book is Walter Kempowski, All for Nothing, a novel set in the chaos of post-World War II Eastern Europe. Another book suggested was Jill Conway, Road from Coorain. We plan to meet on Tuesday, November 27. Roger will suggest the following book.
