A special thanks goes out to Jennie for being the most dedicated member of book club over the years and keeping it alive! You will be sorely missed, we wish you the best and we hope you will return as a special guest from time to time!
Book Club will not be meeting in July so enjoy some time to catch up on your reading and join us in August!
August Picks Brought to us by Kirby
“The
Art of Racing in the Rain”- Garth Stein
The novel follows the story of Denny Swift, a race car driver living
in
Seattle, and his dog
Enzo, who believes in the Mongolian legend that a dog
who is prepared
will be reincarnated in his next life as a human. Enzo sets out to prepare,
with
The Seattle Times calling his journey
"a struggle to hone his humanness, to make sense of the good, the bad and
the unthinkable."
Enzo spends his days watching and learning from television, gleaning
what he can about his owner's greatest passion,
race car driving — and relating it to life. Enzo
eventually plays a key role in Denny's child-custody battle with his in-laws,
and distills his observations of the human condition in the mantra "that
which you manifest is before you."
“These is my Words”- Nancy E. Turner
Inspired by the author's original family memoirs, this
absorbing story introduces us to the questing, indomitable Sarah Prine, one of
the most memorable women ever to survive and prevail in the Arizona Territory
of the late 1800s. As a child, a fiery young woman, and finally a caring
mother, Sarah forges a life as full and as fascinating as our deepest needs,
our most secret hopes and our grandest dreams. She rides Indian-style and
shoots with deadly aim, greedily devours a treasure trove of leatherbound
books, downs fire, flood, Comanche raids and other mortal perils with the
unique courage that forged the character of the American West.
“Saving CeeCee Honeycutt”- Beth Hoffman
Twelve-year-old
CeeCee is in trouble. For years she’s been the caretaker of her psychotic
mother, Camille— the crown-wearing, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire
town. Though it’s 1967 and they live in Ohio, Camille believes it’s 1951 and
she’s just been crowned the Vidalia Onion Queen of Georgia.
The day CeeCee discovers Camille in the front yard wearing a tattered
prom dress and tiara as she blows kisses to passing motorists, she knows her
mother has completely flipped. When tragedy strikes, Tootie Caldwell, a
previously unknown great-aunt comes to CeeCee’s rescue and whisks her away to
Savannah. Within hours of her arrival, CeeCee is catapulted into a perfumed
world of prosperity and Southern eccentricities—a world that appears to be run
entirely by women.
