Clubs and Activities around WPN
WPN’s Book Club
We meet every month at a different person's house to discuss a book of their choice. The next meeting will be September 29th at 3 pm at Susan Bentley’s house, 2651 Gilbert St. We will be reading Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson.
Our October Book Club will be held on October 27th at 3 pm at Kimm Martin’s house, 2568 Highland Ave. We will be discussing Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. And on November 24th at 1 pm we will be meeting for a book club/Charity Drive event at Nancy Smith’s house, 912 Forrest View Ct., Canton, GA 30144. We will be discussing The True Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg.
Below are the books we read last quarter and what we thought of them:
1 star: No one liked the book
2 stars: We thought the book was ok
3 stars: We thought the book was good
4 stars: We thought the book was excellent
5 stars: Don't miss this book it's fabulous!
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
3.5 stars
A young girl, Kya, is abandoned by her family in the marshes of the North Carolina coast. She manages to survive and becomes one with the marsh. As life outside the marsh begins to encroach on her world, Kya becomes entangled in relationships and possibly murder.
The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing
by Melissa Bank
3.5 stars
This novel is a series of stories, principally about Jane Rosenthal, as she grows up in New York City and navigates family, career and relationships.
The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding
by Jennifer Robson
4 stars
Seamlessly weaving fact and fiction along with past and present, The Gown takes us to post WWII London where rationing and grief clash with the excitement of the impending royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Phillip Mountbatten. We also see present day Toronto where a young woman inherits some mysterious lace from her grandmother and finds that it came from the royal wedding gown. As she explores the origins of the lace, we are caught up not only in her life, but in the lives of the women who made the famed gown.
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother
by James McBride
4 stars
Journalist and musician James McBride grew up knowing nothing about his white mother. His mother’s refusal to tell anyone about her past only served to increase his curiosity about how a southern, white, Jewish woman ended up twice widowed and raising her 12 black children in the projects of New York City. His years long search for answers resulted in this award winning memoir.