March Meeting

Thursday, March 18th will be our next book club meeting. We will meet at 6:45 PM at Teri's house. We will discuss Keeping Faith by Jodi Piccoult. Please bring your book to discuss and an appetizer to share.

If you have any suggestions for our next book selection, please email them to Andrea or bring the book/synopsis.

See you tomorrow night!

April Suggestions

If you have any other suggestions for our next book, please email them to Andrea.

Irreplaceable

Lovely's debut novel, a touching journey of the heart, tracks what happens to two Midwestern families after a death and a gift of life.

Archeologist Alex Voormann and his plant biologist wife, Isabel, had a pleasant enough life in Iowa until Isabel was struck and killed while riding her bicycle. Alex reluctantly complies with her wish to be an organ donor, which saves the life of Janet Corcoran, a 34-year-old Chicago art teacher and mother of two.

Lovely thoughtfully weaves the tales of these two families together, tracing the realities of love and loss of all kinds as Alex a

ttempts to move on, the man who was driving the truck that killed Isabel begins popping up in unexpected places, and Janet seeks out Alex and Isabel's mother to thank them and express her guilt and empathy. Lovely does a great job of staying out of sappy melodrama as the gravity of Isabel's death pulls the cast together in memorable fashion. The delicate handling of loaded material, attention to detail and depth of character make this a standout.

Look Again

When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a “Have You Seen This Child?” flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops—the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was lawful. But she’s a journalist and won’t be able to stop thinking about the photo until she figures out the truth. And she can’t shake the question: if Will rightfully belongs to someone else, should she keep him or give him up? She investigates, uncovering clues no one was meant to discover, and when she digs too deep, she risks losing her own life—and that of the son she loves.

Lisa Scottoline breaks new ground in Look Again, a thriller that’s both heart-stopping and heart-breaking, and sure to have new fans and book clubs buzzing.

The Local News
Lydia Pasternak is a decade out of high school, but inside she's still Danny Pasternak’s little sister, the bookish teenager who lived in her popular older brother's shadow until the night he disappeared. Though she has spent her adult life trying to forget that year she turned sixteen, the memory of her brother’s vanishing still haunts her: her secret pleasure at the attention she received as the missing football hero’s sister, her ambivalence about his possible fate, her emergence as an individual in his absence. As her parents went off the rails, she went to her first keg parties and befriended the school's elite crowd—all the while fervidly helping the attractive private investigator her family hired to search for clues to Danny's whereabouts. The shocking end to that trail of clues—an end that Lydia never prepared herself for—left a wound that has never healed, even now as she prepares to return to her hometown after many years.

An authentic dissection of public and private grief, The Local News is a moving, memorable debut that explores the complicated bond between siblings and how our brothers and sisters define who we are.

March Pick

For our March meeting we will be reading Keeping Faith by Jodi Piccoult.

When the marriage of Mariah White and her cheating husband, Colin, turns ugly and disintegrates, their seven-year-old daughter, Faith, is there to witness it all. In the aftermath of a rapid divorce, Mariah falls into a deep depression—and suddenly Faith, a child with no religious background whatsoever, hears divine voices, starts reciting biblical passages, and develops stigmata. And when the miraculous healings begin, mother and daughter are thrust into the volatile center of controversy and into the heat of a custody battle—trapped in a mad media circus that threatens what little stability the family has left.

In Keeping Faith, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult—one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction—brilliantly examines belief, miracles, and the complex core of family.

Our next meeting will be Thursday, March 18th at 6:45. If you would like to hostess, please send me an email.

February Meeting

Book Club is Thursday Feb. 11th at 6:45 at Kim A.'s house. We will be discussing Greetings from Somewhere Else. Bring your book and an appetizer to share!

February Meeting

For February, we will read and discuss Greetings From Somewhere Else by Monica McInerney.

Book Club will meet Thursday, February 11 at 6:45 at Kim's house.

January Quiz

Lockerbie Bombing

1. The plane that was destroyed by a bomb over Lockerbie Scotland was:

Pan AM Flight 103

Northwest Flight 253

American Airlines Flight 11

United Airlines Flight 175

2. The plane was flying from:

Paris to Newark

Dublin to JFK

Heathrow to JFK

Heathrow to LaGuardia

3. This tragedy occurred in

1986

1987

1988

1989

4. The number of fatalities was

247

324

270

202

5. _________ was convicted of this crime.

No one

A Libyan

An Iranian

An American Muslim

6. ___T ___F The cockpit voice recorder was never found.

7. ___T ___F There were CIA agents on board the flight.

8. ___T ___F There were no fatalities on the ground.

9. ___T ___F Investigators believe that the victims died from the explosion, not the impact.

10. This singing group was scheduled to be aboard the flight but overslept and missed it.

The Temptations

The Four Tops

The Commodores

The Platters

11. ___T ___F An anonymous warning was called in concerning the bomb and was distributed to all carriers.

12. In 2009, the only person convicted of the bombing was released on

appeal

an overturned conviction

compassionate grounds

a provision of a new international treaty

13. ___T ___F In 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for the bombing.

14. There were 35 students from this college returning from a semester abroad.

Princeton University

Syracuse University

Harvard University

Duke University

15. ___T ___F The families of the victims were compensated for their loss.

January Meeting

We will be meeting at Susan's this month. See you Thursday at 6:45.