Still short several sun-tanning colleagues, a reduced contingent of us--four, to be exact--decided to meet over lunch instead of dinner this month. We gathered at Barbette, a friendly Uptown standby which offers a menu of French-inspired soups, salads, and sandwiches. Although we missed our pals, our small group enjoyed the intimacy of the occasion and the fact that we could hear one another.
The book is a series of vignettes of life along the US-Canada border, generously dishing out gobs of historical detail and brief analyses of the family ties, commercial transactions, and everyday activities that make up one of the closest international partnerships in the world. We found the stories interesting and appreciated Fox's punchy writing style.
Our next book is John McPhee's Control of Nature. We also considered a few other McPhee books, including Looking for a Ship, Pine Barrens, and A Sense of Where You Are, John Cornwell's Hitler's Pope, and Jill Ker Conway's True North. The next meeting was set for April 16, when Roger will suggest the following book.
