Facilitator: Jean Trumpy
Meeting time: 1st Wednesday of the month, 5:45 PM at the bookstore
New members are welcome!
January 2016:
January – Your favorite non book group book of 2015
February 2016:
At Waters Edge, by Sara Gruen
In her stunning new novel, Gruen returns to the kind of storytelling she excelled at in Water for Elephants: a historical time frame in an unusual setting with a creature who may or may not be the hero of the story.
After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year’s Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis’s father, a former army colonel who is already embarrassed by his son’s inability to serve in WWII due to color-blindness. Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father’s favor is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed at: he will hunt the famous Loch Ness monster and, when he finds it, he will restore his father’s name and return to his father’s good graces (and pocketbook). Joined by their friend Hank, a wealthy socialite, the three make their way to Scotland in the midst of war. Each day, the two men go off to hunt the monster, while another monster, Hitler, is devastating Europe. Meanwhile, Maddie undergoes a social awakening: to the harsh realities of life, to the beauties of nature, to a connection with forces larger than herself, to female friendship, and, finally, to love.
March 2016:
Any of the Maggie Hope mystery series by Susan Elia MacNeal
- Mr Churchill’s secretary
- Princess Elizabeth’s spy
- His Majesty’s hope
- The Prime Minister’s secret agent
- Mrs. Roosevelt’s confidente