Many of us could relate on a personal level the tensions from parishioners and ministers relating to an extensive remodel of a church. From the people who after donating various amounts of money feel they have more of a hand in what and how the design is, to those that want recognition of their contribution in a large way.

His stories about his family, could be said for any family. Fights, love interests, coming together over meals (we all loved the recipes by the way!).

Our discussion took many twists and turns. We spoke about B's unknown sexual identity -- which was still up in the air for all of us. But many of us were surprised to find the book set in the '70s, it was not until about half-way through the book that we got a sense of the time period for the setting of the book.

The author has a very good way of decribing the various fabrics, textures, colors and decorating tips throughout the book.

Not really what I read, but was fun. It was a good study of families and friends. Some thing kept me guessing. The only down side for me was the use of all the discriptive words for the decorating and buildings. I suppose if I knew some of that, it would be interesting. But, I caught myself getting bogged down by all those big, foreign words.