by Lawrence Hill “Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle – a string of slaves – Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the […]
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 enjoyThe Time Traveler’s Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger “Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.” Overview by Google Books
Kiss of Midnight
by Lara Adrian “Drawn to the enigmatic stranger she sees across the room in a crowded dance club, Gabrielle Maxwell is drawn into the dark and dangerous world of hunter vampires, one in which a blood war is on the edge of ignition, when she falls for Lucan Thorne, a vampire Breed warrior sworn to […]
House of Hate
by Percy Janes “Most of the events of the novel take place within the ugly and sprawling house, just as the Stone family itself is held spiritually and mentally there, in unwilling bondage to one another. Juju, the narrator, is the only Stone to leave…” Overview by Google Books
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by John Boyne “Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.” Overview by IMDb A story of innocence existing […]
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen “A spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her sisters.” Overview by Google Books
Sylvia
by Bryce Courtenay “I am Sylvia Honeyeater; I think myself born around 1196, and this is the story of my life.” From master storyteller Bryce Courtenay comes the colourful epic of Sylvia. Late twelfth-century Europe is torn by religious intolerance.” Overview by Google Books
Vanishing Acts
by Jodi Picoult “Delia Hopkins is your average young lady in New Hampshire. She has a search-and-rescue hound, Greta, as well as a fiancé, Eric, and a young daughter, Sophie. But as she plans her wedding, she starts having flashbacks of events that she can’t recall. The police show up and arrest her father Andrew […]
Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen “This is a great, glorious, big-hearted novel set in a travelling circus touring the backblocks of America during the Great Depression of the early 1930s.” Overview by Google Books
Velocity
by Dean Koontz “Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don’t take this note to the police and get them involved, […]
Lady Chatterly’s Lover
by D.H. Lawrence “Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928. The first edition was printed in Florence, Italy; it could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960.The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical relationship between a working-class man and an aristocratic […]
The Red Tent
by Anita Diamont “… a novel by Anita Diamant, published in 1997 by Wyatt Books for St. Martin’s Press. It is a first-person narrative which tells the story of Dinah, daughter of Jacob and sister of Joseph, a talented midwife and proto-feminist. She is a minor character in the Bible, but the author has broadened […]
