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!