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Have You Read The Birth House by Ami McKay?

Monica Parlee — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:46:36 +0000

The reading group I belong to chose, The Birth House by Ami McKay, as our book choice for October. Synopsis: The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of Rares. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an […]

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Fall Re-Start of Book Club ~ See Our Choices for 2013-2014

Monica Parlee — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 23:11:23 +0000

Fall has arrived in all it’s magnificent glory! I had mentioned this in an earlier post, but I really do believe, fall is one of, if not my favourite season of the year. The air is crisp and clean with no trace of oppressive heat or bitter cold. Maybe it is just me, but I think the sun […]

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Reading Group Choices ~ 2012 – 2013 {and our Format Outline}

Monica Parlee — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 18:07:33 +0000

Each year we meet the last Monday in August to discuss our Reading Group schedule for the coming year. The way we usually work it is like this: We all come armed with a couple book choices, including a little bit about the books we would like to submit. We draw numbers, from 1 to […]

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The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom {Book Club Selection}

Monica Parlee — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:38:41 +0000

I have recently started reading The Kitchen House by fellow Canadian, Kathleen Grissom; it is our book club selection for the month of June. I have not yet finished reading it, but I can tell you this; I have it on my Kobo Arc and the first time I picked it up I read 40% of the book! […]

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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green ~ Our Book Clubs Choice for April

Monica Parlee — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:33:25 +0000

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is the book the reading group I belong to read for April. I love John Greens writing and I absolutely loved this book! Seriously, how can you not love a book that contains this line: “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then […]

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One Thousand White Women ~ Our Book Clubs Choice for February

Monica Parlee — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:44:42 +0000

Based on actual historical events, One Thousand White Women, written by Jim Fergus is the fictional story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial “Brides for Indians” program, launched by […]

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11/22/63 by Stephen King – Our Book Club’s Choice for January 2013

Monica Parlee — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:10:11 +0000

~ 11/22/63 by Stephen King – Our Book Club’s Choice for January ~ December is a busy month for all of us, so when our book club first formed we decided not to read a book in December. Instead we all get together and go out for a nice dinner to celebrate Christmas. {Let me just say, we have […]

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Our Book Club’s Choice for November – Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Monica Parlee — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:59:15 +0000

“Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of […]

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“Ten Thousand Truths” by Susan White {Book Club}

Monica Parlee — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:10:46 +0000

The long warm summer days are now behind us and the crisp autumn mornings have arrived. For children, it’s time for back to school and for me it’s time for back to book club! Our book club members recently met to set up this years itinerary and as someone in the group pointed out, we […]

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Our Book Club’s choice for June – Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

Monica Parlee — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:28:20 +0000

I had a bit of a difficult time getting my hands on a copy of this book. I wasn’t going to shell out the cash for a hardcover, the trade paperback was sold out in my area and the paperback version wasn’t due out until June 22nd. I thought of ordering on-line but that involved […]

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