Sommières Book and Serie Club

Updates! Hi there fellow bookworms, Thanks for another great meeting yesterday, as usual! Below you'll find some information concerning the venues for our May and June meetings and our book selection for September (it's a long one!), which we determined yesterday. May meeting When : May 22nd Where : Susan's house in Aspères Book : Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson *I'll send a reminder email with directions to Susan's house a few days before the meeting.* June meeting When : June 26 Where : Marielle's house in St Vincent Book : The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline September meeting Book: 11/22/63 by Stephen King (866 pages) Happy reading! --Noelle

Hi ladies, The votes are in! Thank you all for taking the time to read the blurbs and cast your vote. We have our selections for May and June: May 22nd (location TBD) Title: Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson. Literary Fiction. Pub date: 1996. Blurb: Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic Patrica aged five, greedy cross-patch Gillian who refused to be ignored, and Ruby...  Ruby tells the story of The Family, from the day at the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling French photographer catches frail beautiful Alice and her children, like flowers in amber, to the startling, witty, and memorable events of Ruby's own life. Amazon: www.amazon....

Please vote for our May book selection! (and maybe we'll take #2 and 3 for the following months). Thank you all for your patience as I learn the ropes of organizing our book club :) --Noel https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ejaxdfnYu04ENBThKBzD6g5WFbAeTgvlGhp_s8f_ffk/edit?ts=56fe9d71#

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes (A thriller, very a propos considering what's going on in the international scene theses days, terrorism, etc.) [NOTE FROM LEIGH: Might be a bit long, so good for a month like September? You can all decide. My Craig read this and loved it.] Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

A year in Provence, by Peter Mayle :  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40189.A_Year_in_Provence Various pets alive and dead by Marina Lewycka  : http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13352504-various-pets-alive-and-dead La ballade de Lila K from Blandine Le Callet : just great : http://www.babelio.com/livres/Le-Callet-La-Ballade-de-Lila-K/198715 The Sorrow of Belgium from Hugo Claus, one of the best Flemish writers ever... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrow_of_Belgium

Hello readers! We're looking for book suggestions for our May meeting. We have two so far: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kim Atkinson Email me (or the group as a whole) with your suggestions as soon as possible. I'll start a vote this weekend.

The March meeting will be at Isabelle's house at 17h00. If you didn't receive an email from me with a map, please contact me! The email was sent on March 3rd. NB: I will be out of town from March 7-25, so my email responses will be greatly delayed during this time. Happy reading...