Fall Book Club Books

First we are reading The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty.  

In the Blood by Lisa Unger is our psychological thriller we will discuss on November 11th.

Fannie Flagg's The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is tentatively next - we usually like a good Christmas story but it's kinda early to find one and it's also hard to find a good one.  We always do our Christmas Exchange - our usual date would be Dec. 9th.  Anybody want to volunteer their house this year?  If not, I can probably have it at my house.

Private Relations : 25th Anniversary Edition by Diane Chamberlain is our pick for February 10th.  You will probably have to order it on Amazon - it's an old book that's been re-released.  She's one of my favorite authors.  We also looked at reading Necessary Lies by her also - it's a Target Club Pick if you want to read it.

Other books looked at (I may have missed a few):

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kid - Target Club Pick
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathon Tropper
Little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf
Someone Else's Love Story by Joshily Jackson - Target Club Pick Aug 14
Sea Creatures by Susanna Daniel - Target Club Pick Sept 14
Whistling Past the Graveyard - by Susan Crandall - Target Club Pick Feb 14
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian
A Long Time Gone by Karen White

Books from last email:
Their October 2014 pick is Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain - we've read her books before - just an idea.

Vogue has a Fall List that looks interesting -

The Children's Act by Ian McEwan
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (Also Entertainment Weekly recommends)
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Nora Webster by Colin Tobins
Lila by Marilynne Robinson

Here's the current book club picks from BookMovement - we've read some of them.

This Week's Top Club Picks & Rising Stars:

1. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
2. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
3. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
4. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
5. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
6. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
7. The Giver by Lois Lowry
8. The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
9. The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani
10. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Some other's to look at that I sent out this summer:

Goodnight June by Sarah Jio

The New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter imagines the inspiration for Goodnight Moon
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (Goodnight Songs) is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the “great green room” might have come to be.

June Andersen is professionally successful, but her personal life is marred by unhappiness. Unexpectedly, she is called to settle her great-aunt Ruby’s estate and determine the fate of Bluebird Books, the children’s bookstore Ruby founded in the 1940s. Amidst the store’s papers, June stumbles upon letters between her great-aunt and the late Margaret Wise Brown—and steps into the pages of American literature.

Vintage by Susan Gloss

Vintage is Susan Gloss's sparkling debut novel in the vein of The Friday Night Knitting Club, centered around a Midwestern vintage clothing shop and and a group of women who eventually transform the store and each others' lives.

At Hourglass Vintage in Madison, Wisconsin, every item in the boutique has a story to tell . . . and so do the women who are drawn there.

Violet Turner has always dreamed of owning a shop like Hourglass Vintage. When she is faced with the possibility of losing it, she realizes that, as much as she wants to, she cannot save it alone.

Eighteen-year-old April Morgan is nearly five months along in an unplanned pregnancy when her hasty engagement is broken. When she returns the perfect 1950s wedding dress, she discovers unexpected possibilities and friends who won't let her give up on her dreams.

Betrayed by her husband, Amithi Singh begins selling off her old clothes, remnants of her past life. After decades of housekeeping and parenting a daughter who rejects her traditional ways, she fears she has nothing more ahead for her.

An engaging story that beautifully captures the essence of women's friendship and love, Vintage is a charming tale of possibility, of finding renewal and hope when we least expect it.


Some Girls Some Hats by Trudi Kanter

In 1938 Trudi Kanter, stunningly beautiful, chic and charismatic, was a hat designer for the best-dressed women in Vienna. She frequented the most elegant cafés. She had suitors. She flew to Paris to see the latest fashions. And she fell deeply in love with Walter Ehrlich, a charming and romantic businessman. But as Hitler’s tanks rolled into Austria, the world this young Jewish couple knew collapsed, leaving them desperate to escape.

In prose that cuts straight to the bone, Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler tells the true story of Trudi’s astonishing journey from Vienna to Prague to blitzed London seeking safety for her and Walter amid the horror engulfing Europe. It was her courage, resourcefulness and perseverance that kept both her and her beloved safe during the Nazi invasion and that make this an indelible memoir of love and survival.

Sifting through a secondhand bookshop in London, an English editor stumbled upon this extraordinary book, and now, though she died in 1992, the world has a second chance to discover Trudi Kanter’s enchanting story. In these pages she is alive—vivid, tenacious and absolutely unforgettable.

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