DECEMBER BOOK
Our December book will be Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (a pen name of Danish writer Karen Blixen). The (somewhat saccharine) film adaptation of 1985 won seven Academy Awards. We'll be back at the Steamworks Brew Pub (Steamworks) next to Waterfront Station but moving inside, as the patio is closed for the winter. Join the crew on the evening of Tuesday December 6 for some lively noshing and nattering, starting at 7pm. New members always welcome.
From Wikipedia: Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen's life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there. It provides a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire. Blixen wrote the book in English and then rewrote it in Danish.
