BYDRT
Bets-ya-didn’t-read-that Book Club!
After years of the Corporate America grind, I have built up quite the library of books that I never had time to read. Why not start my forced ejection out for the workplace with a good ‘ole fashion book club!
Join the Club!
Whether you read the book or not, we don’t care! Join us each month as we discuss our pick of the month. Bring a snack and a beverage and by all means, wear some comfortable clothing.
We’ll start out with historical fiction because I feel like I’ve been robbed of an education of what really happened in history (IYKYK). If there is romance, that’s fine but not necessary because this perimenopausal woman knows that’s a myth anyway.
We’ll meet every first Monday of the month at 7 PM. Looking forward to starting over with other book lovers!
Current
Broken Country
By Clare Leslie Hall
Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager—the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident.
As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel’s life, tensions around the village rise and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become.
A sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.
Join Us
When: March 16th
Time: 7-8 PM
Where: UnCommon Salon
Days until Book Club
Day(s)
:
Hour(s)
:
Minute(s)
:
Second(s)
The UnCommon Salon
690 Harleysville Pike
Lederach, PA 19450
February
The Book of Lost Names
By Kristin Harmel
Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books when her eyes lock on a photograph in the New York Times. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in more than sixty years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names.
The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II—an experience Eva remembers well—and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin’s Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don’t know where it came from—or what the code means. Only Eva holds the answer, but does she have the strength to revisit old memories?
As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris and find refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, where she began forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears.
An engaging and evocative novel reminiscent of The Lost Girls of Paris and The Alice Network, The Book of Lost Names is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of bravery and love in the face of evil.
