The Year in Review 2024

Nine titles plus the summer read! A bountiful year! 1. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins 2. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate 3.Kukum by Michel Jean 4. Lessons in Chemisty by Bonner Garmus 5. Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchhill and Sara Delano Roosevelt by Charlotte Gray 6. Playing Nice by Jp Delaney 7. Snow Road Station:A Novel by Elizabeth Hays 8. The Budda in the Attic by Julie Otsuka 9. Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware 10. Demon Copperhead* by Barbara Kingslover *Summer Read (optional) Other highlights included a Christmas Tea with our partners hosted by Elizabeth.

2023 - 2023- 2023

Our reading year finale was a Christmas Tea that featured sweets and savouries for all tastes. Thank you Betty for hosting. Here is the 2023 update for the record and for sharing with friends and family. The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne Blaze Island - Catharine Bush Crow Lake - Mary Lawson Paradise- Abdulrazak Gurnah Miss Benson's Beetle - Rachel Joyce The Sleeping Car Porter - Suzette Mayr The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See The Island of Missing Trees - Eliz Shafak The Giver of Stars - Jojo Moyes Madame Bovary* - Gustave Faubert *Optional Summer Read

2022 Titles In the Can

Five Little Indians Michelle Good From the Ashes JesseThistle Brighten the Corner Where You Are Carol Bruneau Madness of Crowds Louise Penny The Paris Architect Charles Belfoure The Book of Longings Sue Monk Kidd Looking for Jane Heather Marshall Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk Receipe for a Perfect Wife Karma Brown

We started a new program - the optional summer break away group. Four of us including newbie, Lisa, enjoyed reading the unforgetable classic, Anna Karenina. Hybrid meetings were held through out the year and the final get together was a Christmas Tea hosted by Holly. Good times!

Northview Road Reading Warriors!

The Braid/La Tresse Laetitia Colombani Born A Crime Trevor Noah Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters Anita Kushwaha Washington Black Esie Edugyan (Note 1) The Dutch House Ann Patchett (Note 2) Klara and The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro (Note 3) Long Bright River Liz Moore Brother David Charianty Note 1: We also read Half Blood Blues by E.E Note 2: We also read Commonwealth and State of Wonder by A.P. Note 3: We also read Never Let Me Go by K.I.

Summer is winding down

 We have certainly been spoiled by the last few weeks of warm summer like weather.  Our garden meetings were lovely and it was nice to meet face to face.

We continued adding to our list with titles including:

Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters by Anita Kushwaha

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (our third novel by this American author)

Long Bright River by Liz Moore

For our next meeting we will discuss our second novel by Kazuo Ishiguro called Klara and The Sun

It has been a ZOOM kind of year so far..

And we keep going reading and discussing titles that inspire us and bring us closer together as a group. 

Here are the books we have read so far in 2021:

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

The Braid by Laetitia Colombani

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Celebrating our tenth anniversary - here is an article that totally gets it!

 https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women-book-clubs-reading-america-b1823819.html

White Tiger is on Netflix!

 

Remember we read Aravind Adiga's  Booker Prize winning debut novel back in 2011?  Well ten years later here is the film on Netflix! Take a break from reading and watch the movie.

2020 Recap

 

We pulled it off despite the social distancing edict that resulting in us pivoting like the rest of the world to online meetings.  It certainly did not distract from the quality of our discussions. Here is the final tally for 2020!! 

The Sandal Wood Tree - Elle Newmark

Cutting For Stone - Dr. Abraham Verghese

A Lost Man - Jane Harper

Station Eleven - Emily St.John Mandel

In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson

Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens

Flowers of Algernon - Daniel Keyes*

Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

The Lighthouse keeper's Daughters  - Jean Pendziwall 

I Am Watching You-Teresa Driscoll

* Discussion lead by guest super reader Emily! 

Christmas Celebrations Go On Line for 2020

 We are all busy picking out our Christmas finery and favourite libation for our upcoming first Online Christmas Social. Not sure how we will handle the popular Yankee gift exchange but I am sure we will sort it out! See everyone in a couple of weeks! 

An Evening with Tara Westover

 We enjoyed Educated so I think this interview is worth watching twice! Honest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY9mevyZ1qI  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY9mevyZ1qI