Friday 26 April 2019

"Rollback" by Robert Sawyer

  This is The Old Post Office- a branch of 'Idea Exchange', which is the name of our public library system.
  This building 's purpose:
"This will be a building with innovative technology programs for children, teens, parents and seniors.  A true community gathering place for discovery and lifelong learning" (Gary Price, board chair).

    In other words, a bookless library.  While I struggle with this concept, it was the perfect place to celebrate the Preston library book club's 7th anniversary.  
   We had a tour of the building and then a discussion of the book "Rollback" by Robert Sawyer.  The book was our first science fiction, and it was not a hit with the book club.  We felt that the characters were not clearly developed and the writing was not great.  Many parts were very unrealistic, but it is science fiction and not meant to be completely realistic, I expect.
  However, it was a great place for a photo.  This was part of the tour and not everyone is in this picture.

A special treat for me was the fact that our granddaughter from Toronto joined us for this special 7 year anniversary of the book club.  She even read the book!

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