JANUARY BOOK
Our December book will be Mister Pip (link) by New Zealand author Lloyd Jones. (The film version stars Hugh Laurie). We're still at the Steamworks Brew Pub (Steamworks) next to Waterfront Station, on the heated patio if it's open or inside if not. Ring in the New Year with some book lore and brews on Tuesday, January 3 starting at 7pm. All are welcome always.
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations.
