The Preservationist: author visit Justin Kramon (June 1st)

Thanks to Laurie Roy and winning a contest from  (readinggroupguides.com).  Author Justin Kramon will be coming to our neighborhood book club! - 

Hold the date - June 1st !  - Our hostess will be Sylvia and Nicole. Contact Laurie now to get your copy to be signed at book club!

The Preservationist:  by Justin Kramon  

Link to Amazon

A page-turning psychological thriller from the “talented young” author of Finny (Boston Globe)

To Sam Blount, meeting Julia is the best thing that has ever happened to him.

Working at the local college and unsuccessful in his previous relationships, he’d been feeling troubled about his approaching fortieth birthday, “a great beast of a birthday,” as he sees it, but being with Julia makes him feel young and hopeful. Julia Stilwell, a freshman trying to come to terms with a recent tragedy that has stripped her of her greatest talent, is flattered by Sam’s attention. But their relationship is tested by a shy young man with a secret, Marcus Broley, who is also infatuated with Julia.

Told in alternating points of view, The Preservationist is the riveting tale of Julia and Sam's relationship, which begins to unravel as the threat of violence approaches and Julia becomes less and less sure whom she can trust.

Check out the trailer

More here http://justinkramon.com
www.justinkramon.com

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The Goldfinch:By -Donna Tartt:

The Goldfinch at Amazon for details

"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."--Stephen King,The New York Times Book Review

Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.

As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

THE GOLDFINCH is a mesmerizing, tell-all-your-friends triumph, hailed by Stephen King as "a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind." (New York Times Book Review)

Interview - Link  


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Our next meeting is.............................Sunday, April 27th, 7pm.

Our next hostess is  ...........................Julie Bigelow

Our next Book Club selection......" The Goldfinch " by Donna Tartt

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

Next book club is February 23rd - hosted by Terrie Rigopoulos

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (see her blog)
Imagine your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret - something so terrible it would destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others too. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. Cecilia Fitzpatrick achieved it all - she's an incredibly successful business woman, a pillar of her small community and a devoted wife and mother. Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home. But that letter is about to change everything, and not just for her: Rachel and Tess barely know Cecilia - or each other - but they too are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband's devastating secret.

Check out the video
Here is a video of Liane talking about the book. 


Looking for another good book to try? Checkout "In the Time of the Butterflies" by  Julia Alvarez

Other upcoming dates:

Our next meeting is.............................Sunday, February 23rd

Our next hostess is  ...........................Terrie Rigopoulos, 6 Olde Tavern Rd.

Our next Book Club selection......" The Husbands Secret "  by Liane Moriarty

Upcoming Dates

Tentative dates

March 30th...........Laurie Roy ? Cancel and move to April 
April 13, 27th or May 4th  ...........Julie Bigelow (see Laurie for details)

1. April - TBD
2. May/June 1st .....Sylvia Pepin/Nicole Harris (visiting author Justin Kramon/post ) 
3. June 29th .........date still open
4. July - summer vacation / no book club
5. August ....
6. September ....

The Preservationist: A Novel Hardcover by Justin Kramon (hold the date: June 1st)

Thanks to Laurie Roy and winning a contest from  (readinggroupguides.com).  Author Justin Kramon will be coming to our neighborhood book club! - Hold the date - June 1st !  - Our hostess will be Sylvia and Nicole. Contact Laurie now to get your copy to be signed at book club!

The Preservationist:  by Justin Kramon  

Link to Amazon

A page-turning psychological thriller from the “talented young” author of Finny (Boston Globe)

To Sam Blount, meeting Julia is the best thing that has ever happened to him.

Working at the local college and unsuccessful in his previous relationships, he’d been feeling troubled about his approaching fortieth birthday, “a great beast of a birthday,” as he sees it, but being with Julia makes him feel young and hopeful. Julia Stilwell, a freshman trying to come to terms with a recent tragedy that has stripped her of her greatest talent, is flattered by Sam’s attention. But their relationship is tested by a shy young man with a secret, Marcus Broley, who is also infatuated with Julia.

Told in alternating points of view, The Preservationist is the riveting tale of Julia and Sam's relationship, which begins to unravel as the threat of violence approaches and Julia becomes less and less sure whom she can trust.

Check out the trailer

More here http://justinkramon.com
www.justinkramon.com

www.facebook.com/justin.kramon.writer
www.facebook.com/pages/ReadingGroupGuidescom/443218496133

Group picture!

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - January 26th 2014

We will be starting out the New Year reading 

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes.

Our Next Book Club January 26th 2014  Hostess: Susan Torosian 

New York Times bestseller—with more than one million copies sold—by the author of The Girl You Left Behind

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes  - Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.

Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.

A Love Story for this generation, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks,  

Next Book Club January 26th 2014  Hostess: Susan Torosian

Stay tuned for information on the contest Laurie won for the Book Club. The author Justin Kramon will be discussing his book, The Preservationist.

Happy Holidays!

Where'd You Go, Bernadette: by Maria Sempl

Where'd You Go, Bernadette: by Maria Sempl   
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. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.
   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.
Next Book Club is Sunday December 1st.
Hosted by Kelly Bell

The Paris Wife: a Novel by Paula McLain

Our next Book Club Selection...
The Paris Wife: a novel by Paula McLain (website)
Our next meeting is...........................Sunday, November 3rd, 7pm
Our next hostess is  .........................Joyce Charpentier

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paula McLain received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan and has been a resident of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. She is the author of two collections of poetry, as well as a memoir, Like Family, and a first novel, A Ticket to Ride. She lives in Cleveland with her family.

Paula McLain on Reviving Ernest Hemingway and The Paris Wife  

Upcoming dates:

November meeting will be December 1st..........Kelly Bell

December is a pass. ( Joyous Christmas to all! )