September 15, 2020

Chronicles of a Radical Hag by Lorna Landvik, review by Gerri

Books presented but not selected:  The Summer I Met Jack: A Novel by Michelle Gable, Meet me at the Museum by Anne Youngson, Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny, Every Note Played by Lisa Genova

Everyone is invited to present books, and the year’s review schedule will be set.

June 2020

Book:  A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Reviewer: Ann M
Present new books: Audrey G
Treats: Marge B
 Books offered but not selected: Green Mansions by W.H. Hudson, China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan, Some Luck by Jane Smiley, The Professor's House by Willa Cather, The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner

May 2020

Book: Little Fires Everwhere: A Novel by Celeste Ng
Reviewer: Marge
Present new books: Ann
Treats: Jackie W.
Books offered but not selected: My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley, The Corrections b Johnathon Franzen, The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevch, The Glass Castle by Jeanette Wells, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Anne Barrows, Annabel: A Novel by Kathleen Winter

March 2020

Book: The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
Reviewer: Jackie W.
Present new books: Ann M.
Treats: Ric G.
Books offered but not selected: The Broken Girls – Simone St. James, The Woman in Cabin 10– Ruth Ware, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon – Billie Letts, The Private Patient – PD James

February 2020

Book: The Woman In The Window by A.J. Finn

Reviewer: Ric G.

Present new books: Marge B.

Treats: Susan So

Books offered but not selected: Exit West by Moshin Hamid, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Normal People by Sally Rooney, Sweat by Lynn Nottage, A Woman In The Window by A.J. Finn

Author links offered by Ric: https://youtu.be/4AAAH7uhzbY

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/a-suspense-novelists-trail-of-deceptions?utm_source=onsite-share&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker

https://youtu.be/qGtkGUmVWaY

January 2020

Book: Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Reviewer: Susan So.

Offer books: Ric G.

Treats: Sue Su.

Books offered but not selected: Beneath A Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan, Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival by Peter Stark, A Darker Place by Laurie R. King, The Song Poet by Kao Kalia Yang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car by Ian Fleming

December 2019

Book: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Reviewer: Sue Su

Offer new books: Ric G.

Treats: Everyone

Books offered but not selected: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Valliant, Chocolat by Joanne Harris, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Swamplandia by Karen Russell, American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar

November, 2019

Book: The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt by Andrea Bobotis
Reviewer: Jackie W.
Offer New Books: Sue So.
Treats:
Books offered but not selected: Before We Were Yours– Lisa Wingate, The Thirteenth Tale– Diane Setterfield, The Swallows – Lisa Lutz, A Beautiful Poison – Lydia Kang

October 2019

Book: Educated, A Memoir by Tara Westover

Reviewer: Fran E.

Offer books: Sue Su

Refreshments: Randee

Books offered but not selected: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin, An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

September 2019

Book: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal

Reviewer: Randee A.

Offer books: Jackie

Refreshments: Gerri O.

Books offered but not selected: Beartown by Fredrick Backman, The Astronaut's Wives Club by Lily Koppei, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

August 2019

Book: The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball

Review: Gerri O..

Offer new books: Randee A.

Treats: ?

Book offered but not selected: Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy, The Room on Rue Amellie by Kristin Harmel. The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards, Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale by Lynda Rutledge, To Capture What We Cannot Keep by Beatrice Colin

***The meeting will be at Audrey's home.***

July 2019

Book: The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny

Reviewer: Audrey G.

Offer new books: Randee A.

Refreshments: Shirley R.

Books offered but not selected: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller, Jr., 1984 by George Orwell, The President is Missing by James Patterson and Bill Clinton, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Wreck by Kristin Cronn-Mills, Cocaine Blues  by Kerry Greenwood, Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare in Love by Tom Stoppard

Meeting will be at Audrey's house.

June 2019

Book: The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
Reviewer: Shirley
Offer books: Gerri O.
Treats: Melanie G.
Meeting will be held at Audrey's house.
Books offered but not selected (all on the theme of survival): The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel, Endurance by Alfred Lansing, Lost In The Wild by Cary J. Griffith, The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz

May 2019

Book: Sold On A Monday by Kristina McMorris
Review the book:  Melanie G.
Offer new books: Audrey G.
Treats: Jackie W.
Books offered but not selected:  Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald, Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner, Once In A Blue Moon Lodge by Lorna Landvik, Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

April 2019

Book:  Bedknob and Broomstick by Mary Norton
Reviewer: Jackie W.
Offer books to review: Shirley R
Treats:  Susan So
Books offered but not selected: Relic by Preston and Child, A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyld, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, The Murders in the Rue Morgue & The Mystery of Marie Roget by Edgar Allan Poe

February 2019

Book: Creatures of the Kingdom by James A. Michener
Reviewer: Sue Su
Offer new books: Jackie W.
Treats: Carrie C.
Books offered but not selected:  The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, Out of My Life and Thought by Albert Schweitzer, The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian by Marco Polo, Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris

January 2019

Book:  The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
Reviewer: Marge
Offer new books to review:  Sue Su
Bring refreshments:  Randee A.
Books offered but not selected:  Sorry, I can't remember.

December 2018

Book: The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
Offer new books: Sue Su
Review: Randee A.
Treats: Everyone can share a treat
Books offered but not selected: The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis, Finding Serendipity by Angelica Banks, Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres

November, 2018

Book:  Inside The O'Briens by Lisa Genova
Reviewer:  Fran E.
Offer New Books:
Treats: Marie G.
Books offered but not selected: The Last Mile by David Baldacci, The Circle by Dave Eggers, Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

October, 2018

Book:  Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Reviewer: Marie G.
Offer new books: Randee A.
Bring Treats: Gerri O.
Books offered but not selected: Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much by Mark Shaw, Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton, Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund, King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.
Meeting will be held at Northdale Middle School.