Sunday, December 9, 2018

An Invisible Thread By Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski

January 27th, 2019 - Isabelle

An Invisible Thread By Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski

  • The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
This inspirational New York Times bestseller chronicles the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy, and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness. A straightforward tale of kindness and paying it forward in 1980s New York….an uplifting reminder that small gestures matter-Kirkus Reviews.

Stopping was never part of the plan...

She was a successful ad sales rep in Manhattan. He was a homeless, eleven-year-old panhandler on the street. He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But then something stopped her in her tracks, and she went back. And she continued to go back, again and again. They met up nearly every week for years and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades.

Whatever made me notice him on that street corner so many years ago is clearly something that cannot be extinguished, no matter how relentless the forces aligned against it. Some may call it spirit. Some may call it heart. It drew me to him as if we were bound by some invisible, unbreakable thread. And whatever it is, it binds us still.

February 24th - Where the Crawdads Sing at Mary Marotta's

Here are the upcoming dates for Spring 2019 :
January 27th...... Isabelle Feyant
February 24th..........Mary Marotta
March 31st TBD
April 28th TBD (April 21st is Easter)

May 19th...................Penny Munsey - Travel to Cape 12:30-2:30?
June 23
July / August are a pass
 Summer Reading!!

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

December 9th 2018 - Mystery in Newport by Alyssa Maxwell

Our next selection is a Mystery in Newport!  Perfect for October/ November.
Our next meeting will be on December 2nd has been moved to the 9th!
We  will also haveour Yankee Trade Book Swap! So bring your favorite book, wrapped and ready to 
give away that you loved reading this year.
I would like everyone to welcome one of our new neighbors,....Chrissy to our Book Club! :)
Our Book Club started back in 2008, ...it is now  the end of 2018!
10 years of wonderful reading with exceptional women. 

Many blessing to you all as we move forward to 2019!!
Our next meeting is ..............................December 9th 7pm
Our next hostess is   ....................  Syliva Pepin / Nicole Harris
Our next Book Club selection......    Murder at the Breakers" ( a Gilded Newport Mystery )  

Please email the hostess and use  Sign-up Genius to let each other know if we are attending and what you would like to bring. Here is the link to signup and see what others are bringing!

Upcoming dates:
January 2019

November 2018

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde

The new Book Club choice is 
“ The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde
September Book Club with Fran 


The Fall Dates 2018 are:

Monday, April 30, 2018

Mans Search for Meaning" by Victor E. Franki

 Our next meeting is ............................. Sunday, May 20, 2018
Our next hostess is   ........................... Debra Ronca
Our next Book Club selection.........." Mans Search for Meaning" by Victor E. Franki 
 free with the kindle app!
Please email the hostess and use Genius Signup to let each other know if we are attending and what you would like to bring. Here is the link  to signup and see what others are bringing!


Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. ... The second part of the book, called "Logotherapy in a Nutshell," describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps.  More https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning

Next book club
June 24th  ......  hostess ?

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

The Japanese Lover : a novel " by Isabel Allende

March postponed to April 22nd
next meeting  changed  to ...... Sunday, April 22nd 7p.m.
Our next hostess is   ...........................  Isabelle Feyfant
Our next Book Club selection......... The Japanese Lover   
The Japanese Lover : a novel " by Isabel Allende    
From New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende a magical and sweeping Publishers Weekly starred review love story and multigenerational epic that stretches from San Francisco in the present day to Poland and the United States during World War II In 1939 as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis young Alma Belasco s parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco There as the rest of the world goes to war she encounters Ichimei Fukuda the quiet and gentle son of the family s Japanese gardener Unnoticed by those around them a tender love affair begins to blossom Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the two are cruelly pulled apart as Ichimei and his familylike thousands of other Japanese Americansare declared enemies and forcibly relocated to internment camps run by the United States government Throughout their lifetimes Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again but theirs is a love that they are forever forced to hide from the world Decades later Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life Irina Bazili a care worker struggling to come to terms with her own troubled past meets the elderly woman and her grandson Seth at San Francisco s charmingly eccentric Lark House nursing home As Irina and Seth forge a friendship they become intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma eventually learning about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years Sweeping through time and spanning generations and continents The Japanese Lover explores questions of identity abandonment and redemption Written with the same keen understanding of her characters that Isabel Allende has been known for since her landmark first novel The House of the Spirits The Japanese Lover is a moving tribute to the constancy of the human heart in a world of unceasing change and reading discussion questions and  more  
Please email the hostess and use 
Genius Sign-up to let each other know if we are attending and what you would like to bring. 
Here is the link  to signup and see what others are bringing!
Upcoming dates:
- April 29th 2018
- May 20th ( before Memorial Day weekend )
- June 24th