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The Inglenook Book Club met in November at the McKenzie Farmer’s Market with 13 members present. The club extends thanks and appreciation to Jennifer Waldrup of the City of McKenzie for letting us make use of this facility for our meetings. Members wore masks, observed social distancing, and brought their own drinks.
All Inglenook club members are shocked and saddened at the sudden death last month of our member, Debbie Riley, and we extend sympathy to her daughter, Lauren, and the rest of Debbie’s family. The book club has donated a sum of money to the McKenzie Memorial Library in her memory.
Members celebrating November birthdays are Carolyn Goodwin and Sally Sutton.
Jean McKinnie reported that the pending meeting with the Paris book club has been tabled for the time being due to the pandemic.
Under New Business, discussion took place concerning whether or not to meet in December because of the continuing surge of COVID-19. It was decided that we would meet, since we now have the availability of the Farmer’s Market. In place of exchanging Christmas gifts, money will be collected for a project to provide food and other items for needy school children. Genia Sherwood will coordinate this project.
Shirley Martin presented a most interesting program on a series of books written by Charles Todd, the pen-name used by American authors mother-and-son team, Caroline and Charles Todd. Their first debut novel, A Test of Wills, was published in 1996 and is the first of 25 books set in post-World War I England featuring the cases of Inspector Ian Rutledge.
Rutledge is a veteran of the European campaigns who is attempting to pick up the pieces of his Scotland Yard career. However, he must keep his greatest burden a secret: suffering from what was then called “shell shock,” he lives with the constant, cynical, taunting voice of Hamish MacLeod, a young Scots soldier he had had to execute on the battlefield for refusing to fight.