Meeting Report: March 2023

The DCBC met on Sunday, March 26, 2023 to discuss March's book: The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich (selected by Emily Y).

Attendees were: Emily Y, Miriam, Sarah, Jessy, Ashley, Emily O, Paige, and Ray.

The Sentence centers around Tookie, an indigenous woman in Minneapolis who is working at a small, independent bookstore after serving a prison sentence for unwittingly trafficking drugs on behalf of her friends. The bookstore's "most annoying customer" is Flora, who dies on All Souls' Day of 2019, and who subsequently begins to haunt the bookstore she frequented, and Tookie in particular. The Sentence follows Tookie through the mystery of this haunting, the COVID-19 pandemic, George Floyd's murder and the aftermath, all over the course of the year to All Souls' Day of 2020.

“Small bookstores have the romance of doomed intimate spaces about to be erased by unfettered capitalism."

― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

'Tookie is an incredibly disarming main character, and she’s wonderfully human' (Miriam's review). We discussed Tookie's relationship to Flora, their shared history, and the sentence in an eerily indestructible book that caused Flora's demise. There were multiple uses of the title throughout the book, from Tookie's prison sentence, to the aforementioned sentence that killed Flora, and:

“There was a sentence people were chanting all over the world now. I can't breathe."

― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

to name a few. The Sentence was also interesting for taking place during the pandemic, without really being about the pandemic. Just the perspective of a predominantly indigenous community and their experiences living through these recent events. Some of the pandemic thoughts Tookie has are of course 'comical' (Paige's review) in retrospect:

“I wondered if I could make a mask out of a cabbage leaf."

“It seemed like the virus would pass in about a month."

― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

Some of us thought the book jumped around between too many different things, or was slow to get going. Others of us thought this made for a realistic depiction of how real life doesn't usually follow a neat path. Additionally, this choice on Erdrich's part may have helped underscore the chaotic feel of the year that was 2020. 'The discussion of real events from our own recent history in the world of this book was super cathartic...This book is highly realistic in a perfectly humane way, and doesn’t lose any of the promised whimsy from being so honest.' (Miriam's review) 

We also discussed our general enjoyment of the magical realism Erdrich employs in the 'genuinely spooky ghost interventions,' (Paige's review) like Tookie finding books on the floor, Flora's hand on the light switch, and finally, Tookie feeling as though Flora is trying to unzip her back and climb into her body. (I may have been holding my breath during that last one.)

There was also a discussion about Flora's (adopted) indigenous identity and how this related to her finding out her own ancestor was not actually native at all but a white sadist who targeted native people. This was "the sentence" that evidently sapped Flora of her will to live. And finally the cavalier attitude some supporting characters had to the skeletal remains of an indigenous person they had in their possession, contrasted with the horrified feelings of the native people in the bookstore (which remains were, finally, returned). 

Overall, everyone seemed to like it, at least to some degree! Lastly, as promised:

Pollux's Corn Soup

“[I]t is a corn soup. First he caramelizes fresh-cut sweetcorn, toasting it slowly in a heavy pan, adding onions. Then cubed potatoes tossed lightly in butter, to set a crisp. He adds all of this to a garlicky chicken broth with shaved carrots, cannellini beans, fresh dill, parsley, a dash of cayenne, and heavy cream.”

― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

Here is the version Sarah made for our book club meeting. I made mine in a crock pot and took a couple of shortcuts to minimize dishes. I made my version vegan and forgot the cayenne (oops). Included some comments for things to try or do differently.

Served enough for about 12, so scale down (or up) accordingly!

Ingredients

A few Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
6 ears of sweet corn, cut from cob
1 sweet onion, diced small
2 medium russet potatoes, cubed small
2 large carrots, diced small (or "shaved")
8 cloves garlic, minced
2 cans cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
10 cups vegetable (or chicken) broth (It looked like it needed more after 8, but I'd probably scale it back next time and try for a thicker soup.)
2 Tbsp butter (or the plant-based kind)
1 bunch fresh parsley, chopped

1 bunch fresh dill, chopped
1 (8 oz.?) container plant-based sour cream (or the dairy kind, or heavy cream per Pollux's recipe)
Salt, to taste
Cayenne pepper, to taste (I'll have to remember this next time)

Directions

1. In a heavy skillet (or my crock pot using "stove top" setting on high), heat olive oil over medium/medium-high heat and add cut corn. I let mine caramelize while cutting up the rest of my veggies, stirring periodically.

2. Add onion and let this caramelize as well. If I were doing this in a skillet / soup pot combo, I'd probably start a soup pot simmering my garlic in the broth to extract those flavors longer while the skillet is going.

3. Melt butter and toss potato cubes to coat. Toast these as well ("to set a crisp," though I just added mine to the crock pot as I went and they got as toasty as they got. But could also transfer the corn and onions to the broth if they're done caramelizing and try to get the potatoes crispier in the skillet.

4. Add carrots and beans. All the veggies should be in a pot with the broth at this point. I let simmer for about 30 minutes while I washed and chopped the fresh herbs, which I added toward the end and finished with the sour cream (or heavy cream, but I wanted the extra zip from the sour cream). Then add salt and cayenne to taste and serve. 

Tookie doesn't say what, if anything, Pollux serves this with and we enjoyed it on its own, but this soup could be an accompaniment to a larger meal, or could have a salad or bread or even a sandwich on the side. This was a first attempt for me, and as you can tell from the many comments, there are things I would experiment with for the next go-around. If you make it, please experiment and share your culinary adventures in the comments! 

The Verdict

Taken from the average DCBC member ratings on Goodreads who had marked the book as read and rated at the time of this writing:

The Sentence: 4.5 stars

Thank you to Emily Y for hosting!

Next Month: April 2023: The Monsters We Defy, by Leslye Penelope (selected by Sarah).

As always, the full book list for this cycle can be found here.

Meeting Report: February 2023

The DCBC met on Sunday, February 26, 2023 to discuss February's book: The Dead Romantics, by Ashley Poston (selected by Kris).

Attendees were: Miriam, Sarah, Kris, Jessy, Ashley, Lindsay, Paige, and Ray.

The Dead Romantics is a romance novel about a ghostwriter for a famous romance author, Florence Day. The novel begins with Florence meeting with her super handsome new editor, Ben, to try to get an extension on her latest book. Ben, short for Benji, last name I don't recall, could have used a more imaginative name as Ashley noted, given The Dead Romantics, like The Love Hypothesis, has its origins in Reylo fanfic. Florence hasn't been able to write about romance ever since her breakup with Johnny McJerkface (I don't remember his name and I don't care, because he's a Jerkface). Ben, of course, refuses. During our meeting we talked about all the many little conflicts in The Dead Romantics, and the tension of Florence not being able to write because of her breakup was one of several. Then she gets a phone call that her father has passed away and she has to return to Smalltown, where she grew up, to help her family bury him.

“Everything that dies never really goes. In little ways, it all stays.”

― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

Florence hasn't been back to Smalltown for ten years because she helped solve a local crime using her secret super-power of being able to see--and talk to--ghosts, for which she was teased by high school bullies (especially Queenbee Meany-Pants). As Paige discussed during our meeting, the Smalltown representation of people remembering you and treating you like the person you were when you left is a real phenomenon. As is the petty drama. Florence's late father could also see ghosts, from whom she evidently inherited this ability.

The Day family (minus Florence, because she ran away to The Big City to be a writer) run a funeral home, and who does Florence see when she walks in the door, but Ben. Weird that he would be there, since she just saw him in The Big City, and to make things weirder, he doesn't know why he's there either. Uh oh, now Florence has to break the news to him that means he's a ghost and therefore DEAD.

“The universe sends you the things you need when you need them.”

― Ashley Poston, Dead Romantics

Having nothing better to do, Ghost Ben follows Florence around Smalltown while she tries to arrange the very particular and impossible particulars of her father's funeral and they slowly fall in Love. This was another low-stakes conflict where Florence feels like she has to gather all the random bits for the funeral by herself, even though no one asked her to and her family even offered to help. But she says it over and over again, that she HAS to do this by herself. I guess that's so Poston could maintain alone time for Florence to talk to Ghost Ben and not have her seemingly talking to herself in public any more than she already does (which, there were some bizarre moments as Miriam pointed out).

“I began to realize that love wasn’t dead, but it wasn’t forever, either. It was something in between, a moment in time where two people existed at the exact same moment in the exact same place in the universe.”

― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

Meanwhile, Ghost Ben randomly keeps popping out of existence with increasing frequency and hearing voices possibly, so he and Florence interpret this to mean that his time to transition to the great beyond is fast approaching. If only they could have more time together. They just hope Ghost Ben can stick around for the funeral, which the whole of Smalltown comes together to help with the impossible particular particulars (including Queenbee Meany-Pants who is not such a meany-pants after all) and it is beautiful and sad and people cried.

“Everything died, but pieces of it remained. Dad was in the wind because he breathed the same air that I breathed. Dad was a mark in history becuase he existed. He was part of my future because I still carried on.”

― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

Plus, come to find out, the famous romance author Florence has been ghostwriting for (Annie) is actually Ben's grandmother and she's been dead since before she hired Florence to be her ghostwriter, something she did while she was a ghost. (This explains why Florence hasn't had any contact with Annie since, though frankly I still have loads of questions. But moving on.) Ghost Ben disappears and Florence, able to Love again, gets her romance writing groove back.

“Giving you Annie's legacy and watching it flourish was under your pen was a blessing. And this? And suddenly this no longer felt like a conversation. It felt like a goodbye. These last few days have been beautiful. It's a good ending, darling. And as your editor I have no notes.”

― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

Once back in The Big City, Florence learns Ben isn't dead after all, he was just in the hospital in a coma and just woke up. (Twist! I say this sarcastically because I recently watched the 2005 Reese Witherspoon/Mark Ruffalo flick Just Like Heaven, which uses the same trope so I totally called it. And if I remember correctly, I believe others of us did as well, because how else HEA?) 

But does he remember her from that time he was Ghost Ben?

“I knew you once,” he said so ardently, it made my heart flutter. “I think you still do,” I whispered,”

― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

He does. Happily-ever-after achieved, Florence writes her book (not the knock-off version Johnny McJerkface wrote, take that), and Smalltown's canine mayor wins reelection in a landslide (I'm guessing).

Overall, people generally liked it. Miriam didn't love it but was invested by the end, Ashley swooned and cried, and Paige enjoyed her mini-vacation to quaint and quirky Smalltown! (Totally and shamelessly paraphrasing from your reviews...)

The Verdict

Taken from the average DCBC member ratings on Goodreads who had marked the book as read and rated at the time of this writing:

The Dead Romantics: 3.92 stars

Thank you to Miriam for hosting! And welcome again to new member Ray!

Next Month: March 2023: The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich (selected by Emily Y).

As always, the full book list for this cycle can be found here.

Meeting Report: January 2023

The DCBC met on Sunday, January 29, 2023 to discuss January's book: Mrs Death Misses Death, by Salena Godden (selected by committee).

Attendees were: Ashley, Jessy, Lauren, Miriam, and Sarah. 

Mrs Death Misses Death is a novel in verse about a black, non-binary struggling writer, Wolf Willeford, who meets Mrs. Death, who is usually anthropomorphised as an older black woman (though her form also shifts throughout the novel), shares her memoirs and reflections on life, death, and humanity. Interspersed throughout are recollections of the violent deaths of people that we don't find out until the end are Wolf's ancestors, going back several generations. Wolf themself is struggling with grief and past trauma and an abusive childhood and the mental health issues that likely stem from that. 

So to be honest, I've been putting off writing the recap, because what to say about it? As you will see from The Verdict, the prevailing opinion ranged from "meh" to "not for me," but I absolutely loved it. And, well, I don't want these recaps to be biased towards my own opinions. So instead of a lengthy essay going point-by-point of everything I thought was amazing about Mrs Death Misses Death, I'll just leave you with a few of my favorite passages and some random thoughts:

When you die, it will not be how you think or when you expect. I do not come for you like a cleaner when it is handy and convenient for you. Let's just hope you leave the world a better place than the one you were born into, a world fit for generations to come. Let's hope I come when you are busy doing something you want to live for. Let us hope I come when you are doing something you would die for.

*** 

Death is a woman. I am a woman. Surely by erasing me we have erased this power? By never portraying a woman as the representative of Death, the boss of Death, the figure of Death itself, one could debate that an important and fundamental disempowerment takes place. Perhaps this is what erasure looks like.

*** 

[P]eople will read your notes on this page and erase you, they'll presume Doctor Delano is a man, just because I have used Doctor. [...] But you are real, a real woman and a real female person who is a doctor doctor in a real hospital trying to help me.

That last one hit me (and I don't think I was alone in this), because, guilty. One of the central themes was the erasure of and invisibility of marginalized groups (race, gender, and class).

***

 [A]ll I know for sure is unless the humans change the way they are living, they cannot change the way they are dying.

I had a new, semi-formed thought on this the other day, around the connection of this idea with the violent deaths we are presented with of Wolf's ancestors. That unless we as a society change the way we treat people, people, particularly those on the margins, will continue to die as a result of that cruelty and neglect.

*** 

Your heroes march for human rights and the future of the planet. Your heroes are millions of school children protesting for the climate strike. [...] Your heroes are everywhere, they walk among us. Your heroes are waking up every day, skint and underpaid and busking it, your heroes are making work, beautiful books an music and art that you cannot see or find or read as it is drowned out by all the propaganda and noise and adverts and the fear-mongering and the performative cruelty of politicians. It is your job, your only job, to seek out and support and nurture heroes, this is all your responsibility. We can all do our part in the chain, to help others, to help the others who help the others who inspire and help the others. [...] You are losing your libraries, museums, galleries, independent bookshops, pubs and music venues. So the beautiful spaces where thinkers and writers and artists could meet and share work and gather and blossom and dream are being erased. The survival of the hero is up to you all now.

From the chapter We Could Be Heroes, which was my personal favorite chapter because it was to me one of the central theses of the book, the value of art and artists to humanity in the face of a capitalist society that doesn't value those things. It asks us if we are willing to fight for the things we claim to care about the most.

*** 

Otherwise what is the actual point of all of this? What was the point? Why are you all here if not for that? You are here for love. To share the love.

 ***

To grow old is a great gift; it is the best of gifts. And when you grow old well, it is constantly nearly Christmas...

*** 

Do you want to walk with the living, to really live your one life or will you continue to pretend to live? Do you live a lie or do you live your truth? Think about it, take your time, take all the time you need, take one day at a time. Do your lifetime in your own lifetime. 

I liked how the ending mirrored the beginning, when Wolf first meets Mrs. Death, with Wolf choosing Life, and living one day at a time. Love a hopeful note.

Anyway, enough of my rambling. Mrs Death Misses Death clearly wasn't everyone's cup of tea, but those are sometimes the best book club discussions.

The Verdict

Taken from the average DCBC member ratings on Goodreads who had marked the book as read and rated at the time of this writing:

Mrs Death Misses Death: 3.00 stars

Thank you to ME (Sarah) for hosting! (Oh stop, you're too kind, it was a pleasure.) :-D

Next Month: February 2023: The Dead Romantics, by Ashley Poston (selected by Kris).

As always, the full book list for this cycle can be found here.

December 2022: Holiday Party and Sixth Cycle

The DCBC met on Sunday, December 18, 2022 for our holiday party and to select books for Cycle 6! Can you believe we are on Cycle 6 already?? Wow. The list of books for Cycle 6 is at the end of this post and can also be found on our Book List page.

A huge THANK YOU up at the top to Miriam who hosted and put together an amazing spread!!

In attendance were Sarah, Ashley, Paige, Emily O., and Lauren. Jessy was off on her fabulous travels, but contributed to the book swap and was with us in spirit!

We had a blast doing our book swap and chatting about all things books!

Books all wrapped up--mysterious and enticing!

Everyone's a winner with this game!

We also put together our book list for 2023. Everyone who attended the requisite number of meetings got their pick, plus a couple other books nominated and voted on by the group to fill out the year. (See The Rules! page for an explanation.)

 Here are the books for CYCLE 6!

January 2023:

Mrs Death Misses Death, by Salena Godden, voted on by Committee.

February 2023:

The Dead Romantics, by Ashley Poston, selected by Kris.

March 2023:

The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich, selected by Emily Y.

April 2023:

The Monsters We Defy, by Leslye Penelope, selected by Sarah.

May 2023: 

The Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood, voted on by Committee.

June 2023:

The Library at Mount Char, by Scott Hawkins, selected by Lauren.

July 2023:

No book or meeting, but possible bonus book club activity to be determined!

August 2023: 

Silver Under Nightfall, by Rin Chupeco, selected by Ashley.

September 2023: 

Stone Blind, by Natalie Haynes, selected by Miriam.

October 2023: 

The Only Good Indians, by Stephen Graham Jones, selected by Paige.

November 2023:

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist, by Jennifer Wright, selected by Jessy.

December 2023:

No book. Holiday party and choose books for the next cycle!

Meeting Report: November 2022

The DCBC met on Sunday, December 4, 2022 to discuss November's book: The Princess Beard, by Delilah Dawson and Kevin Hearne (selected by Emily Y.)

Attendees were: Emily Y., Jessy, Kristyn, Miriam, and Sarah. 

The Princess Beard is the third installment in The Tales of Pell series. It opens with Morgan, a princess who has just awoken from a long slumber in a tower to find her hair and fingernails have grown excessively long. She breaks off her long fingernails and cuts off her braids, using them to escape, but keeps the beard she has grown as a disguise. Morgan goes on to find a pirate crew to serve with, aboard a ship called The Puffy Peach, under the one-eyed parrot pirate captain Filthy Lucre. 

Morgan is hardly the main character of this book, however. The Princess Beard is more of an ensemble cast of misfit characters. Vic (short for Pissing Victorious), is a swole dude-bro of a centaur who is ashamed of his magical gift--the ability to conjure tea and cupcakes. Tempest is a flesh-eating dryad who has ambitions of becoming a lawyer to see that justice is served. Alobartalus is an elf who is on a quest to meet his hero (never meet your heroes).

The crew discover that what they thought they wanted is not actually what they want, come to accept themselves, foil a dastardly plot, save the day, and realize they have found a family of sorts among one another. 

Ultimately this is not a bad message, so we gave it points for that. Vic and Tempest were also our favorite characters, as well as the things that they satirized, i.e. misogyny and law school / Hogwarts, respectively. (The law school Tempest briefly attends is a very silly place called BogTorts.) We thought Vic's superpower would actually be pretty cool to have, which Vic himself comes to realize by the end once he sheds his toxic masculinity stemming from his Daddy Issues^TM.

The Princess Beard makes a lot of cultural references, knowledge of which are probably helpful in understanding the jokes it makes, and this book is 69% jokes*. There were also several instances of potty humor (anterior bodily function and anatomy humor). Overall, the humor in The Princess Beard was not to most of the group's taste, but serious fans of South Park and Rick and Morty might have a good time with this.

The Verdict:

Taken from the average DCBC member ratings on Goodreads who had marked the book as read and rated at the time of this writing:

The Princess Beard: 2.75 stars

Thank you to Emily Y. for hosting!

*See what I did there?

Next Month: January 2023: Mrs Death Misses Death, by Salena Godden (selected by committee--this is something new we're trying; see The Rules! for an explanation).

As always, the full book list for this cycle can be found here.

P.S.: My sincerest apologies for the tardiness of this post! There will be a recap of our December 2022 holiday party plus the books for the next cycle shortly!

Meeting Report: October 2022

The DCBC met on Sunday, October 30, 2022 to discuss October's book: All’s Well, by Mona Awad (selected by Melissa).

Attendees were: Melissa, Annabelle, Ashley, Emily O., Emily Y., Jessy, Lauren, Miriam, and Sarah. 

“We all fall, Ms. Fitch. We fall and we rise. Bones and tissue heal. But sometimes we want to hold on to the pain. Sometimes we have our reasons for not being able to let go.”

― Mona Awad, All's Well

All's Well is a novel about a theatre director at a small college, Miranda Fitch. She is a former stage actress after an accident left her with chronic back (and hip) pain (it's both, always both). She is determined to stage Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the play that she herself was starring in before her literal fall from the stage left her in pain and now divorced. The students, led by the shining Briana, stage a mutiny to put on Macbeth instead. Miranda, faced with the reality that Briana's parents are the theatre department's primary patrons, then meets three weird gentlemen who offer her the remedy for her pain and a solution to her production woes. 

All's Well draws from its namesake play, as well as Macbeth, frequently throughout the novel, as well as allusions to Doctor Faustus for the magical elements within this book. Our discussion went into these themes, how female pain is believed (and not) in society, Miranda's experiences with, and the symbolism of, her physical therapists, Miranda's relationships with her students, coworkers, and ex-husband--Mona Awad gave us quite a lot to talk about!

Overall, the group's opinions were mixed--several of us really liked it, and several of us did not, or rather did not like Miranda (and she is a very, very flawed character)--but I think everyone got something out of the discussion and took away something they didn't know or hadn't thought about before.

The Verdict:

Taken from the average DCBC member ratings on Goodreads who had marked the book as read and rated at the time of this writing:

All’s Well: 4 stars

Thank you to Melissa for hosting!

Next Month: November 2022: The Princess Beard, by Delilah Dawson and Kevin Hearne (selected by Emily Y.)

As always, the full book list for this cycle can be found here.

Lastly, a point of Club Business: We are approaching the end of our current cycle, which means it is time to think about which books we will be selecting for our next cycle. According to The Rules! of our club, members in good standing are eligible to select a book for the next cycle. Based on attendance so far, it looks like we will have a shorter cycle this next time around, so in order to make things easier on people and because we want as many people to be able to participate as possible, there will be a minor change to The Rules going forward. Rather than needing to commit to attending at least three meetings PER CYCLE (your own book, plus two more), you will now need to attend at least three meetings within the previous 12 MONTHS. This will allow for times, as now, when we have a shorter cycle and to allow our members to come in and out of "active" status as their life circumstances allow--and easily rejoin and pick more books for us to read in the future! Please let me know if there are any questions in the Comments below.

Meeting Report: September 2022

The DCBC met on Sunday, September 18, 2022 to discuss September's book: Comfort Me with Apples, by Catherynne Valente (selected by Miriam).

Attendees were: Miriam, Ali, Ashley, Emily O., Jessy, Kristyn, Laurel, Lauren, Paige, Sarah, Taylor, and Val. This was a great turnout and we had a very lively discussion--welcome to everyone who joined us for the first time!

“Welcome to a new world of luxury living in Arcadia Gardens, an exclusive, upscale gated community! Every thought and care has been taken to provide the ultimate in amenities, privacy, serenity, and, most important, safety for you and yours.”

― Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me With Apples

Comfort Me With Apples is a feminist reinterpretation of the Garden of Eden story, set in the context of an upscale suburban gated community (with the most bonkers HOA rules you've ever seen) that combined elements of the gothic and the surreal. At just over 100 pages, this novella has a lot of symbolism that we each brought some bits of to the discussion and with our combined analyses, we were able to piece a few more things together. The symbolism is densely-packed (some perhaps fairly criticized it as a bit heavy-handed) and gave us a lot to talk about, whether we liked the book or not. Regardless, it seemed like everyone came away from the discussion at least appreciating the book a bit more for what went into it. 

Some insights from the discussion I managed to jot down:

The pieces Adam keeps from each of his wives were the pieces of himself used to make each of the women, highlighting Adam's ego and narcissism: the parts he loved the most were the parts of himself.

Adam says he wants a real marriage, but he is not willing to cede the power dynamics historically present in traditional hetero marriage to actually get it.

Sophia's arc, while not ultimately a happy one, leaves space for Eve to fill as the next iteration of Woman. We are left to surmise, from what we as readers know of the Adam and Eve story, that Eve is successful in getting Adam to eat the apple, and draw our conclusions from what this means from there.

The Verdict:

Taken from the average DCBC member ratings on Goodreads who had marked the book as read and rated at the time of this writing:

Comfort Me with Apples: 4.2 stars

Thank you to Miriam for hosting and to each of the attendees for bringing their insights, background, and experiences to this discussion. Speaking for myself, all of you are why I love book club so much and I am grateful to each and every one of you for these discussions!

Next Month: October 2022: All’s Well, by Mona Awad (selected by Melissa)

And always, the full book list for this cycle can be found here.