Due to a rise in COVID cases, the August meeting was postponed so will now be held as detailed above. Patricia Sterling will contact all existing members with the location nearer the time - please contact her if you do not hear from her. America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie, 2016. Biographical […]
All the Ways We Said Goodbye: A Novel of the Ritz Paris by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig & Karen White, 2020. Historical fiction/romance/mystery. Sept All the Ways We Said Goodbye: A Novel of the Ritz Paris by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig & Karen White, 2020. Historical fiction/romance/mystery. A multi-generational family mystery, spanning World War I, […]
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay, 2017. Autobiography/humor. During his medical training, 2004 to 2010, British comedy writer and former junior doctor Kay scribbled diary entries in secret. The book is a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front line of the UK’s National Health Service, […]
No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club: Diary of a 60th Year by Virginia Ironside, 2006. Fiction/humor. Marie Sharp is turning 60 and just wants to put her feet up and “start doing old things.” But as it turns out, life still has some surprises in store and refuses to follow her plan. […]
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird, 2018. Historical fiction/war story Loosely based on the true story of a freed female slave who posed as a man, joined the army, and served with the Buffalo Soldiers. The sweeping plot travels from the Civil War South to the Western frontier in a high-energy […]
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, 2020. Historical fiction/domestic fiction/family saga. Twin girls run away from a rural southern black town at the age of 16. Years later, one marries a dark-skinned black man and has a child; the other lives her life passing as white in California. The novel follows them across generations, as […]
At the March 21 meeting, new books will be chosen for the reading year that begins in summer 2022 and ends in summer 2023. A mix of genres and styles is welcome: fiction, non-fiction, classics, memoirs, thrillers, mysteries, etc. Members are encouraged to propose one or two titles at the meeting and give a brief […]
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, 2020. Biographical fiction/historical fiction. A fictional account of Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, who died at age 11 in 1596. “A story of the bond between twins, and of a marriage pushed to the brink by grief. It is also about a kestrel and its mistress; a flea that boards a ship in […]
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo, 2019. Literary fiction/family saga. Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, they have four radically different daughters, each in a state of unrest. “A gripping, poignant ode to a messy, loving family in […]
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald First published in 1945, this humorous memoir is about the author's adventures and travels as a young wife on a chicken farm in the US state of Washington.
