Lyn’s Comments (group member since Jun 02, 2014)

Lyn’s comments from the Books, Booze, and Bajingos group.

We aren't going to be doing the podcast reviews but we are going to start doing monthly book recommendations!

Each month, Lyn, Maile and Annie will recommend a book to the group. Then we will open up the floor to you all to make your recommendations for the month in the Discussions!

We will kick this off for August 2020!

Lyn is expecting to go into labor any day now, so book club is on hold till after she's had time to recover.

Agnieszka - Emma Watson

Kasia - Elle Fanning

Dragon - Lee Pace

Falcon - Josh Duhamel

Alosha (The Sword) - Lindsay McDowell

Post your casting choices here!

Because this book is about children, and we had a hard time casting children last month, we are not going to be casting this month.

If you have casting suggestions, please post them!

Claire - Jessica Brown Findlay


Peony - Rose Leslie


Andrew - Daniel Radcliffe


James - James McAvoy

Post your casting choices here!

Here is my casting for Monstrous Regiment:
Polly, Caitlyn Gerard:


The Duchess, Angela Lansbury:


Jackrum, Melissa McCarthy:


Strappi, Crispin Glover:


Blouse, Michael Cera:


Igor/Igorian, Kristen Schaal:


Prince Heinrich, Rowan Atkinson:


Maladict/Maladicta, Ruby Rose:


Wazzer/Alice, Ellen Page:


Otto, Jermaine Clement:

I'm moving my casting of The Witch of Painted sorrows to here:

Here is my casting:
Sandrine, Rachelle Lefevre:


Grandmother, Jessica Lange:


La Lune, Marcia Cross:


Julien, Ian Somerhalder:

Who would you cast in the book we're readding/have just read?

With two out of the three OG Members moving, we didn't get together in time to have a June pick this month! Fear not, though! There will be a new pick for July!

Now, anyone in the group can add to the bookshelves!

I will see if I can fix that.

I just added some new books to the "To Read" list!

If you have a suggestion for future picks, add them to the group's "To Read" list!

If you want to talk about this book and it's progress, this is the place to do it!

Maile's pick. Our first non-fiction...changing the rules!

My casting choices, so I don't forget:
Ursula-Natalie Dormer
Izzie-Helena Bonham Carter
Sylvie-Kate Winslet
Hugh-Colin Firth
Teddy-Daniel Radcliffe
Morris-Mark Gatiss

Annie's pick.

What did you think of the structure of Life After Life? Did you find yourself flicking back to
earlier pages as you were reading? What effect do you think the non-linear, circular pattern
had on your reading experience? Does it remind you of any other novels you have read?

Ursula experiences a number of different kinds of relationships with men, and a variety of
career choices, as she lives the different versions of her life. What do you think these
alternate paths in her life say about the choices that were available to women during this
period?

In Germany, with her daughter Frieda, Ursula chooses death over life for the first time,
saying ‘Something had cracked and broken and the order of things had changed’. What do
you think she meant by that? How does the end of that life affect her decisions in the lives
that follow?

The one constant in all the different scenarios is that Ursula’s life always begins in a
snowstorm. What does snow represent for you throughout the novel?

As time goes by, Ursula learns more about her ability to restart her life – and although she
often adjusts her actions accordingly, she doesn’t always correct her mistakes. Why not?
Does she ever become fully aware of her ability to start again? If so, when do you think that
happens?

How did you feel when you got to the end of the novel? What do you think about ending the
novel with the midwife Mrs Haddock back in the Blue Lion pub, sipping her hot rum?