Tuesday, September 24th, 8:00pm
Graham Home
54 Stonecrest Road
Join us for some lively book discussion and socializing with food and drink!
This is a casual book club for anyone who likes to read and chat about it! We select a diversity of books, including fiction, nonfiction, historical, mysteries, classics, contemporary, etc. - the list could go on! If you like to read, want to meet and make new friends, then the Newcomer's Book Club is for you. The only requirement is that you bring your love of books and discussion to share with us over a tasty snack or beverage while exploring our next good read.
Over the summer, we were reading Where'd You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple and The Shoemaker's Wife, by Adriana Trigiani. Please come with questions, thoughts, comments - no formal presentations are necessary, but do expect to engage in some active listening and conversation.
Didn't get a chance to read these books? Not to worry! Please join us this month to share or recommend any good books you would like to nominate for the Winter reading selections.
This event is free, but please register online by Monday, September 16th so that we know to expect you! Kindly bring either something savory or sweet - small in quantity - or a drink to share. We hope you are able to join us!
This month's book Descriptions – Amazon.com:
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
The Shoemaker's Wife
Beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her careerundefineda breathtaking multigenerational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars, and the quest of two star-crossed lovers to find each other again. Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help, calls the novel “totally new and completely wonderful: a rich, sweeping epic which tells the story of the women and men who built America dream by dream.”
For more in-depth book reviews and descriptions, please visit these links: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13526165-where-d-you-go-bernadette
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13127599-the-shoemaker-s-wife
Copies of both novels are on hold at the Ridgefield Library-Ask at the Circulation Desk. Or may be purchased at Books on the Common (on Main Street-15% discount offered for book club selections).
Remember to check the Book Club Activities page for future book lists and updates!
