Book-Club Meeting Degenerates Into Discussion Of Oscars

MINOT, ND— A weekly meeting of the Minot Public Library’s “Book Buddies” club degenerated into a discussion of the upcoming Academy Awards Tuesday. “We were talking about that week’s book, A Bend In The Road by Nicholas Sparks, when somebody asked if anyone had seen the movie version of [Sparks’] A Walk To Remember,” group leader Ellen Talmadge said. “Then Bill [Polk] asked if anybody had seen John Q. After that, we never really got back to the book.” Talmadge added that she considers Nicole Kidman “a lock” for her performance in Moulin Rouge.