After Book Club

Friday
Today was grey and wet, and I didn't get an outdoor blip, so I thought I would blip the Bakewell Tart I was making for Book Club. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the completed Bakewell tart, so instead you get a sort of still life featuring a half-eaten Bakewell Tart!
The book we were discussing was The Sandcastle Girls, by American author Chris Bohjalian. This novel is set in two time periods – the narrator living in current times is researching the history of her American born grandmother and Armenian grandfather, who met and fell in love against the background of the Armenian Genocide in World War I. Since some of the descriptions of the genocide are quite harrowing, it's not a book that you would say you enjoyed, but it is a good read, and a story that needs to be told, and is particularly relevant this year, being 100 years since these events took place. The author is himself of Armenian descent, so it was a very personal book for him to write, and he draws on some of his memories of his own grandparents.