June Meeting: Dictionary of Lost Words; Whiplash; Extremes

Hi everyone

The book, film and podcast for June are listed below. Hope you see you at Poppy's to share our thoughts.

Book: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams.
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptorium’, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word ‘bondmaid’ flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world.

Movie: Whiplash (2014).
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
Available on Netflix and other streaming services.

Podcast: The Lightning Struck Pianist, Extremes, Season 2, Espisode 7 Tony Cicoria never cared for music. Not until he was struck by lightning, and woke mysteriously obsessed with classical music. In this episode we talk to Tony about his unique journey as a concert pianist, and his debut composition, ""Lightning Sonata"".