[Editor's note: The information below was issued in a press statement from the Reading Public Library.]
The Not-Too-Stuffy Book Group will meet at the Senior Center, 49 Pleasant Street, on Thursday, December 15 at 1:00 p.m. to discuss Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way by Ruth Reichl.
In this memoir, culinary author and editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, Ruth Reichl chronicles her relationship with her late mother, Miriam. Miriam Brudno, who bowed to societal and familial pressure to become a wife and a mother over pursuing a fulfilling career, cheered her daughter on and pointed out that Ruth had an obligation, both to herself and to her mother, to use her life well.
Copies of this book are available at the Reading Public Library and at the Senior Center. no registration is necessary.
This event will take place on the second floor of the Senior Center. The discussion will be led by Barbara Currie.
