We were all surprised by how little we knew about World War I. One person had just finished a Hungarian memoir (Dossier K?) and said that even the Hungarian telling that story was shocked that the murder of Franz Ferdinand was enough to get anyone's attention, let alone to spark a world wide war.
One thing that never crossed my mind, because I am apparently the only person on the face of the Earth who is not watching, is that the story lines in Fall of Giants are strikingly similar to those in Downton Abbey. Both stories have someone getting pregnant by the chauffeur, someone operating a clinic, someone named Ethel, and they both are set in the same time and place. The things one learns at book group. . .
Next month we will meet at my house, and we are going to discuss The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison. I can't wait!
Still Reading: Who Asked You by Terry McMillan
Still Listening to: Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
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