Next Meeting is September 18 at noon at Sharon w/ Rennie

"Shadow of Greenbrier" by Emily Matchar and "The Last of the Moon Girls" by Barbara Davis

Archived Books Read 2008 - Current

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Summary of books Read 2023 - 2024

Summary of books Read 2022 - 2023

  • "Bucket List” by Rachel Hanna (Carol)

  • "Good Night, Irene" by Luis Alberto Urrea (Sharon)

  • "Leaving Time" by Jodi Picoult (Rosemary)

  • "Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows" by Balli Kaur Jaswal (Kathy)

  • "Angel Encounters" by Karen Goldman; (Edna)

  • "Into the Free" by Julie Cantrell (Pam)

  • "Lesson in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus (Pat)

  • "Foster" by Claire Keegan (Alice)

  • "Mad Honey" by Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney (Sylvia)

  • "A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman

  • "The Truth of the Matter" by Leigh Fleming (Grace)


  • "Pigs in Heaven" by Barbara Kingsolver (Carol)
  • "The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver (Dricka)
  • "The Venice Sketchbook " by Rhys Bowen (Roe)
  • "The Giver of Stars" by Jojo Moyes (Kathy)
  • "The Thursday Murder Club" by Richard Osman (Edna)
  • "This is Happiness" by Niall Williams (Sharon)
  • "Animal Dreams" by Barbara Kingsolver (Pat)
  • "Going There" by Katie Couric (Alice)
  • "We Begin at the End" by Chris Whitaker (Sylvia)
  • "Live to Tell" by Liza Gardner" (Pam)
  • "Waterproof" by Judith Redline Coopey( Grace)

 

  • Summary of Books Read 2020 - 2021 ---COVID  

  • "Golden Girl" by Elin Hildebrand (Carol)

  • "What Only We Know" by Catherine Hokin (Dricka)

  • "The Four Winds" - Kristin Hannah (Sharon)

  • "Dial A for Aunties" by Jesse O Sutanto (Louisa)

  • "The Paris Library" by Janet Skeslien Charles (Pam)

  • "The Four Things that Matter Most" by Ira Byock and "How to Walk Away" by Katherine Center (Pat)

  • "The Winemakers Wife" by Kristin Harmel (Roe)

  • "Fifty Words for Rain" by Asha Lemmie. (Sylvia)

  • "Alex and Eliza, A Love Story " by Melissa de la Cruz (Grace)


  • Summary of Books Read 2019 - 2020

  • "The Whole Town is Talking" by Fannie Flagg (Carol)

  • "The Chilbury Ladies Choir" by Jennifer Ryan (Sharon)

  • "The Library Book" by Susan Orlean (Louisa)

  • "28 Summers" by by Elin Hilderbrand (Alice)

  • "Lost Years" by Mary Higgins Clark (Kathy)

  • "When Silence Sings" by Sarah Loudin Thomas (Pat)

  • "Oil & Marble" A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo" by Stephanie Storey (Rosemary)

  • "Last Day" by Luanne Rice (Edna)

  • "The Silent Patient" by Alex Michaelides (Dricka)

  • Beneath a Scarlet Sky” by Mark Sullivan (Sylvia)

  • "The One" by John Marrs (Grace)


  • Summary of Books Read 2018 - 2019

  • "Summer of '69" by Elin Hilderbrand (Carol)

  • "Educated, A Memoir" by Tara Westover (Sharon)

  • "Karolinas Twins" by Ronald Balson (Rosemary)

  • "Before We Were Yours" by Lisa Wingate (KAthy)

  • "The Tale Teller" by Anne Hillerman (Pam)

  • "Bossypants” by Tina Fey (Louisa)

  • "The Invisible Wall" by H. Berstein (Pat)

  • "The Crawdads Sing" by Delie Owens (Grace) at Carol's

  • "The Winner" by David Baldacci (Dricka)

  • "The Secret Wisdom of the Earth" by Christopher Scotton (Edna)

  • "The Silent Wife" by Kerry Fisher (Grace)


  • Summary of Books Read 2017 - 2018

  • "The Memory Painter" by Gwendolyn Womack (Carol)

  • "Small Great Things" by Jodi Picoult (Sharon)

  • "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair (Pam)

  • "The Heist" by Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg (Louisa)

  • "The Blind Contessa's New Machine" by Carey Wallace (Kathy)

  • "Kiss Carlos" by Adriana Trigiani (Rosemary)

  • "Once Upon a Town" by Bob Greene (Alice)

  • "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne (Edna)

  • "Nightingale" by Kristen Hannah (Dricka)

  • "Breaking Night" by Liz Murray (Grace)


  • Summary of Books Read 2016-2017

  • "Blackbird House" by Alice Hoffman (Carol)

  • "My Glory Was I Had Such Friends" by Amy Silverstein (Pat)

  • "The Midwife of Hope River" by Patricia Harman (Sharon)

  • "Woman No. 17" by Edan Lepucki (Pam)

  • "Just wait until you have children of your own" by Erma Bombeck (Kathy)

  • "My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry" by Fredrik Blackman (Louisa)

  • "Two Rivers" by T. Greenwood (Rosemary)

  • "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr (Alice)

  • "Memory Keeper's Daughter" Kim Edwards (Dricka)

  • "Step on a Crack" by James Patterson (Edna)

  • "The Lemon Orchard" by Luanne Rice (Grace)


  • Summary of Books Read 2015-2016

  • "The Dirty Life" by Kristin Kimball (Sharon)

  • "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande (Pat)

  • "Roses" by Leila Meacham (Carol)

  • "The Pearl that Broke it's Shell" by Nadine Hashimi (Pam)

  • "Tumbleweed" by Leila Meacham (Rosemary)

  • "Kitchens of the Great Midwest" by J. Ryan Stradel (Alice)

  • "Go Set a Watchman" by Harper Lee (Kathy)

  • "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot (Dricka)

  • "The Astronaut Wives Club" by Lily Koppel (Louisa)

  • "The Boys in the Boat" by Daniel James Brown (Edna)

  • "The Invention of Wings" by Sue Monks Kidd (Grace)


  • Summary of Books Read 2014-2015

  • "Mary McGreevy" by Walter Keady (Sharon)

  • "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" by Rachael Joyce (Pat)

  • "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand (Edna)

  • "A Spool of Blue Thread" by Anne Tyler (Kathy)

  • "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield (Pam)

  • "Hissy Fit" by Mary Kay Andrews (Carol)

  • "Wonder" by R J Palacio (Alice)

  • "Gray Mountain" by John Grisham (Dricka)

  • "Home, Memoir of My Early Years" by Julie Andrews (Rosemary)

  • "Lavender Morning" by Jude Deveraux (Louisa)

  • "The Kitchen's Gods Wife" by AMY TAN (Grace)


  • Summary of Books Read 2013-2014

  • "The Last Original Wife" by Dorothea Benton Frank (Carol)

  • "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline (Pat)

  • "The Amateur Marriage" by Anne Tyle (Ellen)

  • "Precious Words" by Leigh Fleming (Pam)

  • "Skinny Dip" by Carl Hiaasen (Louisa)

  • "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Ann Jacobs (Kathy)

  • "Flight Behavior" by Barbara Kingsolver (Sharon)

  • "McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland" by Pete McCarthy (Alice)

  • "The Husband's Secret" by Liane Moriarty (Dricka)

  • "Remember Me " by Mary Higgins Clarke (Rosemary)

  • "Baker Towers" by Jennifer Haigh (Grace)

  • "The Shoemaker's Wife" by Adriana Trigiani (Edna)


  • Summary of Books Read 2012-2013

  • "I Feel Bad About My Neck " by Nora Ephron (Louisa)

  • "The Midwife's Tale" by Gretchen Moran Laskas (Alice)

  • "What Alice Forgot" by Liane Moriarty (Kathy)

  • "The Quickie" by James Patterson (Ellen)

  • "Emily Alone" by Stewart O'Nann (Sharon)

  • "The Orphan Master's Son" by Adam Johnson (Pam)

  • "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers (Dricka)

  • Dear Cary”, My life with Cary,”by Dyan Cannon (Roe)

  • "Middle Place" by Kelly Corrigan (Edna)

  • "The Language of Flowers " by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (Nancy)

  • "an Invisible Thread" by Laura Schroff (Grace)


  • Summary of Books Read 2011-2012

  • "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins (Louisa)

  • "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" by Alexander McCall Smith (Alice)

  • "Sing You Home" by Jodi Picoult (Pam)

  • "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E.L. James (Ellen)

  • "Winterdance" by Gary Paulsen (Sharon)

  • "Look me in the eye: My Life with Asperger" by John Elder Robison (Kathy)

  • "Wildflower Hill" by Kimberley Freeman (Rosemary)

  • "Saving Fish from Drowning" by Amy Tan (Edna)

  • "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein (Pat)

  • "While my Sister Sleeps" by Barbara Delinsky (Grace)


  • Summary of Books Read 2010-2011 (pdf file)

  • "Growing Up Amish" by Ira Wagler (Pam)

  • "The Final Confession of Mabel Star" by Mabel Stark (Linda)

  • "Midnight in the Garden of Good Evil" by John Berendt (Louisa)

  • "Safe Haven" by Nicholas Sparks (Ellen)

  • "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson (Sharon)

  • "Promises to Keep" by Jane Green (Pat)

  • "Short Guide to a Happy Life" by Anna Quindlen (Alice)

  • "The Mermaid Chair" by Sue Monk Kidd (Roe)

  • "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach (Kathy)

  • "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom (Edna)

  • "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen (Grace)


  • Summary of Books Read 2009-2010 (pdf file)

  • "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson (Sharon)

  • "Scarlett" by Alexandra Ripley (Linda)

  • "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer (Louisa)

  • "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett (Pam)

  • "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer (Gayle)

  • "Shadow of The Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Ellen)

  • "Reading Lolita in Tehran" by Azar Nafisi (Alice)

  • Evening Class” by Maeve Binchey (Rosemary)

  • "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho (Edna)

  • "Angela's Ashes" Frank McCourt (Kathy)

  • "Scarlet Feather" Maeve Binchy (Grace)


  • Summary of Books Read 2008-2009 (.pdf file)

  • "The Glass Castle" Jeanette Walls (Sharon)

  • "The Shack" William P. Young (Linda)

  • "Twenty Wishes" Debbie Macomber (Louisa)

  • "Poisonwood Bible" Barbara Kingsolver (Pam)

  • "Comfort Food" Kate Jacobs (Gayle)

  • "Outlander" - Diana Gabaldon (Edna)

  • "Plum Lucky" - Janet Evanovich (Alice)

  • "Call me Ted" - Ted Turner (Ellen)

  • "Can't Wait to Get Heaven" - Fannie Flagg (Rosemary)

  • "The Last Lecture" - Randy Pausch (KAthy)

  • "Queen of the Big Time" - Adriana Trigiani (Grace)

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