JANUARY BOOK
Ritual winter solstice greetings to all! January's book will be The Blue Flower (https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Flower-Novel-Penelope-Fitzgerald/dp/B01L9EEYQQ/ref=tmm_pap_title_13?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) by Booker Prize winning British author Penelope Fitzgerald. Join us on the evening of Tuesday, January 7 as we cure our New Year's hangovers with some hair of the dog and lively literary discussion at the Sylvia Hotel Lounge. The fun begins at 7pm and newcomers and the idly curious are more than welcome. As that famous philosopher Groucho Marx said, "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
The Blue Flower is set in the age of Goethe, in the small towns and great universities of late eighteenth-century Germany. It tells the true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a passionate, impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis. Fritz seeks his father's permission to wed his "heart's heart," his "spirit's guide"—a plain, simple child named Sophie von Kühn. It is an attachment that shocks his family and friends.
