We met last night at Geri Christensen's home. Although we were few in numbers, we talked about some great books and enjoyed being together.
BETH HEDENGREN:
“A Spool of Blue Thread” by Anne Tyler
About a flawed but loving family in Baltimore and like all
families, they think they’re special, smarter and more capable, except they have
a “Black Sheep” son who takes off for long periods of time. When he comes back there
is a huge uproar in the family.
MARYANN STEVENS:
“All The Light We Cannot See” by Andrew Doerr
This is the bestseller about a blind French girl
and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive
the devastation of World War II.
GERI CHRISTENSEN
"The Rosie Project" by Graeme Simsion
The art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who's decided it's time he found a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs a Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers and the late-arrivers.
Rosie Jarman possesses all these qualities. Don easily disqualifies her as a candidate for The Wife Project (even if she is "quite intelligent for a barmaid"). But Don is intrigued by Rosie's own quest to identify her biological father. When an unlikely relationship develops as they collaborate on The Father Project, Don is forced to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie--and the realization that, despite your best scientific efforts, you don't find love, it finds you.
SARA TRIVEDI
“Whiter Than Snow” by
Sandra Dallas
“True Sisters”, also
by Sandra Dallas
“A Man Called Ove”
by Frederick Backman
In this bestselling
and “charming debut” (People) from one of Sweden’s most successful authors, a
grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a
boisterous young family moves in next door.
Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?
Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?
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