by Lori Lansens “We’ve been called many things: freaks, horrors, monsters, devils, witches, retards, wonders, marvels. To most, we’re a curiosity. In small-town Leaford, where we live and work, we’re just ‘The Girls.’”
About Our Book Club
Located in beautiful St. John’s, Newfoundland, our book club was founded in 2007. Our members are as diverse and interesting as our book selections which makes for the most lively discussions over a glass of wine and good food.
Through our book club we have read books we might not otherwise have read, we have made friends we might not otherwise have met and have had the most wonderful, memorable evenings with both ♥♥♥
These are the books we've most recently discussed along with a little summary of our book club discussion.
Take a browse and enjoyLolita
by Vladimir Nabokov Lolita is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, middle-aged literature professor Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with the 12-year-old Dolores Haze,
Something Fierce
by Carmen Aquirre “When Carmen Aguirre was six, she and her family were among the many Chileans who fled to Canada as refugees from the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet,
Bullets, Butterflies & Italy
by John Meyer “Zack Curtis truly dreads his thirtieth birthday. Estranged from his family and friends, he hopes his trip to Italy will lift his spirits and trigger the inspiration for a happier life.
The Curse of Flowervilla
by Anastasia English The Curse of Flowervilla is a tale of romance and faith, mystery and betrayal. As this captivating multi-generational family epic unwinds, readers will be treated to a glimpse of the highs and lows of Newfoundland society in the early 1900s”.
The Best Laid Plans
by Terry Fallis “A burnt-out politcal aide quits just before an election — but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with a crusty old Scot, Angus McLintock
The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd “Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint,
Left Neglected
by Lisa Genova “Sarah Nickerson is like any other career-driven supermom in Welmont, the affluent Boston suburb where she leads a hectic but charmed life with her husband Bob, faithful nanny, and three children
The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield “When her health begins failing, the mysterious author Vida Winter decides to let Margaret Lea, a biographer, write the truth about her life, but Margaret needs to verify the facts since Vida has a history of telling outlandish tales.” Review by Google Books
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini “Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a […]
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett “… a first novel from Kathryn Stockett, is the story of a young white woman in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s and a group of black maids who work for the families of her friends. Stockett writes about the struggles the women face as they chafe against the written and unwritten rules […]
Sarah’s Key
by Tatiana De Rosnay “A New York Times bestseller. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family’s apartment, thinking that she will be back within a […]
