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!