Category: Suggested Book Club Reading

Please join us in reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows for our monthly read!

We will be reviewing the book along with our discussion questions for April 30th, 2018.

January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb…. Continue reading “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows” →

Please join us in reading Playing With Fire by Tess Gerritsen for our suggested monthly read!

We will be reviewing Playing With Fire along with our book club discussion questions for March 31st, 2018.

In a shadowy antiques shop in Rome, violinist Julia Ansdell happens upon a curious piece of music—the Incendio waltz—and is immediately entranced by its unusual composition. Full of passion, torment, and chilling beauty, and seemingly unknown to the world, the waltz, its mournful minor key, its feverish arpeggios, appear to dance with a strange life of their own. Julia is determined to master the complex work and make its melody heard. Continue reading “Playing With Fire By Tess Gerritsen” →

Please join us in reading our Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini for suggested monthly read!

We will be reviewing Enchantress of Numbers as well as our book club discussion questions for February 28, 2018.

The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. But her mathematician mother, estranged from Ada’s infamous and destructively passionate father, is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada’s mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education grounded in mathematics and science. Any troubling spark of imagination—or worse yet, passion or poetry—is promptly extinguished. Or so her mother believes. Continue reading “Enchantress Of Numbers By Jennifer Chiaverini” →

Please join us in reading Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín for our suggested monthly read!

We will be reviewing Brooklyn along with our monthly book club discussion questions for January 31, 2018.

Goodreads Summary:

Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, she cannot find a job in the miserable Irish economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America–to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood “just like Ireland”–she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. Continue reading “Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín” →

Please join us in reading The Stars Are on Fire by Anita Shreve for our suggested monthly read!

We will be reviewing the book along with our monthly book club discussion questions for December 31st, 2017.

In October 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast from Bar Harbor to Kittery and are soon racing out of control from town to village.

Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband, Gene, joins the volunteer firefighters. Along with her best friend, Rosie, and Rosie’s two young children, Grace watches helplessly as their houses burn to the ground, the flames finally forcing them all into the ocean as a last resort. Continue reading “The Stars Are Fire By Anita Shreve” →

Please join us in reading True Colors by Kristin Hannah for our suggested monthly read!

We will be reviewing True Colors along with our book club discussion questions for November 30, 2017.

Goodreads Summary:

True Colors is New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah’s most provocative, compelling, and heart-wrenching story yet. With the luminous writing and unforgettable characters that are her trademarks, she tells the story of three sisters whose once-solid world is broken apart by jealousy, betrayal, and the kind of passion that rarely comes along.

The Grey sisters have always been close. After their mother’s death, the girls banded together, becoming best friends. Their stern, disapproving father cares less about his children than about his reputation. To Henry Grey, appearances are everything, and years later, he still demands that his daughters reflect his standing in the community. Continue reading “True Colors by Kristin Hannah” →

Please join us in reading The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See for our suggested monthly read.

We will be reviewing The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane along with our book club discussion questions for October 31st, 2017.

Goodreads Summary:

Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate—the first automobile any of them have seen—and a stranger arrives. Continue reading “The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See” →

Please join us in reading Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica for our suggested monthly read.

We will be reviewing Every Last Lie along with our book club discussion questions for September 31st, 2017.

Clara Solberg’s world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a car crash, killing Nick while Maisie is remarkably unharmed. The crash is ruled an accident…until the coming days, when Maisie starts having night terrors that make Clara question what really happened on that fateful afternoon. Continue reading “Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica” →

Please join us in reading Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll for our suggested monthly read.

We will be reviewing Luckiest Girl Alive along with our book club discussion questions for August 31st, 2017.

HER PERFECT LIFE IS A PERFECT LIE.

As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue blood fiancé, she’s this close to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve.

But Ani has a secret.

There’s something else buried in her past that still haunts her, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything. Continue reading “Luckiest Girl Alive By Jessica Knoll” →

Please join us in reading Circling The Sun by Paula McLain for our monthly read.

We will be reviewing Circling The Sun, with our monthly book club discussion questions for July 31st, 2017.

Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman—Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, who as Isak Dinesen wrote the classic memoir Out of Africa. Continue reading “Circling The Sun By Paula McLain” →