2023 is here and we are ready to read!
The F.A.B. Book Club "Good friends, good books . . .this is the ideal life." --Mark Twain
Monday, January 23, 2023
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Monday, February 28, 2022
Thursday, November 8, 2018
6th Annual Christmas Book Club Brunch
So excited to celebrate our 6th Annual Book Club Brunch
on Saturday, December 8th at 11 a.m.
on Saturday, December 8th at 11 a.m.
Don't forget your wrapped book to play Literary Yankee Swap.
Sunday, September 18, 2016
4th Annual Christmas Brunch
Mark your calendars and get ready for the 4th Annual Christmas Brunch!
Please bring an anonymously wrapped book that our Book Club has not yet read for our "book" version of "Yankee Swap." Our complete list of past-read books is available.
Food assignments will be listed closer to the date.
For December, we will be reading the short, interesting, and disturbing book, Midwinter Blood by Marcus Sedgwick. Perhaps we will figure it all out together.
"Seven stories of passion and love separated by centuries but mysteriously intertwined―this is a tale of horror and beauty, tenderness and sacrifice.
An archaeologist who unearths a mysterious artifact, an airman who finds himself far from home, a painter, a ghost, a vampire, and a Viking: the seven stories in this compelling novel all take place on the remote Scandinavian island of Blessed where a curiously powerful plant that resembles a dragon grows. What binds these stories together? What secrets lurk beneath the surface of this idyllic countryside? And what might be powerful enough to break the cycle of midwinterblood? From award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick comes a book about passion and preservation and ultimately an exploration of the bounds of love"
Please bring an anonymously wrapped book that our Book Club has not yet read for our "book" version of "Yankee Swap." Our complete list of past-read books is available.
Food assignments will be listed closer to the date.
For December, we will be reading the short, interesting, and disturbing book, Midwinter Blood by Marcus Sedgwick. Perhaps we will figure it all out together.
"Seven stories of passion and love separated by centuries but mysteriously intertwined―this is a tale of horror and beauty, tenderness and sacrifice.
An archaeologist who unearths a mysterious artifact, an airman who finds himself far from home, a painter, a ghost, a vampire, and a Viking: the seven stories in this compelling novel all take place on the remote Scandinavian island of Blessed where a curiously powerful plant that resembles a dragon grows. What binds these stories together? What secrets lurk beneath the surface of this idyllic countryside? And what might be powerful enough to break the cycle of midwinterblood? From award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick comes a book about passion and preservation and ultimately an exploration of the bounds of love"
Happy Reading!
Sunday, March 6, 2016
April Meeting
In April, we will be discussing The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom.
"In this gripping New York Times bestseller, Kathleen Grissom brings to life a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War, where a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate.
Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen house and is placed, as an indentured servant, under the care of Belle, the master’s illegitimate slave daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, clean, and serve food, while guided by the quiet strength and love of her new family.
In time, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, caring for the master’s opium-addicted wife and befriending his dangerous yet protective son. She attempts to straddle the worlds of the kitchen and big house, but her skin color will forever set her apart from Belle and the other slaves.
Through the unique eyes of Lavinia and Belle, Grissom’s debut novel unfolds in a heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of class, race, dignity, deep-buried secrets, and familial bonds."
"In this gripping New York Times bestseller, Kathleen Grissom brings to life a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War, where a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate.
Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen house and is placed, as an indentured servant, under the care of Belle, the master’s illegitimate slave daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, clean, and serve food, while guided by the quiet strength and love of her new family.
In time, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, caring for the master’s opium-addicted wife and befriending his dangerous yet protective son. She attempts to straddle the worlds of the kitchen and big house, but her skin color will forever set her apart from Belle and the other slaves.
Through the unique eyes of Lavinia and Belle, Grissom’s debut novel unfolds in a heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of class, race, dignity, deep-buried secrets, and familial bonds."
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
July's Meeting
For July, we are reading a book that is for lovers of books, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. Through Fikry's bumbling and wonderful life journey, the reader understands just how important books are.
"We read to know we are not alone."
Sunday, July 6, 2014
Monday, June 9, 2014
July's Meeting
The Husband's Secret
Cecelia Fitzpatrick leads a seemingly perfect life. That is, until she finds a letter from her husband to be opened after his death. She opens it anyway, and finds that her husband has been hiding secrets. Her life is about to change. . .
Thursday, May 1, 2014
June Book Club Meeting
For June, we will be reading:
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
An incredible true story almost not told.
Friday, January 3, 2014
February Meeting
The Art of Love is Never a Science
"MEET DON TILLMAN, a brilliant yet socially challenged professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. And so, in the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers.
Rosie Jarman is all these things. She also is strangely beguiling, fiery, and intelligent. And while Don quickly disqualifies her as a candidate for the Wife Project, as a DNA expert Don is particularly suited to help Rosie on her own quest: identifying her biological father. When an unlikely relationship develops as they collaborate on the Father Project, Don is forced to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie—and the realization that, despite your best scientific efforts, you don’t find love, it finds you."
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