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October's Book Club selection is On Chesil Beach by Ian McIwan. From the publisher: The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears, and romantic fantasy on a young couple’s wedding night. It is 1962, and Florence and Edward are celebrating their wedding in a hotel on the […]
November's Book Club selection is Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. From the Publisher: In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf details Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess, exploring the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life. The novel "contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive […]
December's Book Club selection is Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write Riveting Novel by Lisa Cron. From the publisher: It’s every novelist’s greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story has no sense of urgency, no internal logic, […]
January's Book Club selection is What Immortal Hand by Johnny Worthen From the publisher: Michael is called of God; just not that God. What begins as a routine investigation of a hijacked truck turns into a desperate and personal quest for memories, faith, and meaning. The answers to these, for Michael Oswald, like the strangled […]
February's Book Club selection is This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett From the publisher: Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments—to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband—creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. […]
