Category: Suggested Book Club Reading

Please join us in reading The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah for our monthly read!

We will be reviewing the book along with our book club discussion questions for July 31, 2018.

Alaska, 1974.
Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed.
For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival.

Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.

Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. She is desperate for a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Continue reading “The Great Alone By Kristin Hannah” →

Please join us in reading I’ll See You In Paris by Michelle Gable for our monthly read!

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

Three women, born generations apart.
One mysterious book that threads their lives together.
A journey of love, discovery, and truth… Continue reading “I’ll See You In Paris By Michelle Gable” →

Please join us in reading Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate for our monthly read!

We will be reviewing the book along with our book club discussion questions for May 31st, 2018.

Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge–until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents–but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility’s cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty. Continue reading “Before We Were Yours By Lisa Wingate” →

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” →