Book Club
Monson Library Book Club
3rd Monday of every Month
6:30pm - 7:30pm in the Monson Library Conference Room
To reserve a copy of the selected book:
Visit us at the Library
or contact our Book Club Moderator
Susan Hoovler (207) 997 - 3687
January 27th Book Club Selection:
A Certain Slant of Life
By Cynthia Thayer
At the heart of Cynthia Thayer's debut novel, Strong for Potatoes, was the tender relationship between a girl and her grandfather, constantly evolving as their lives grew and changed. Now, in Thayer's second novel, she tackles another kind of relationship, one between strangers.
Peter lost his wife and children in a fire years ago, yet the wounds are still as fresh as if it happened yesterday. He's turned into something of a hermit in a cabin on the coast of Maine, shearing sheep and gardening to live, an old Passamaquoddy woman his only friend. Elaine is eight months pregnant and on the run from her husband, a hard man more interested in control than love. Fear is simply a part of her life, fear for herself and her unborn child.
When Elaine turns up outside Peter's cabin during one of Maine's worst winter storms in years, Peter can't turn her away into the ice. Holed up together in his one-room home, the two troubled, lonely adults clash, then slowly discover that friendship, support, and healing can come in the most unlikely places.
Earlier Books Read for Monson Book Club - Still Available in the Library!
Beartown - Federick Backman
When We Were the Kennedy's - Monica Wood
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion - Fannie Flag
A Man Called Ove - Fredrick Backman
Purple Hibiscus - Chimanda Adichie
The Undergound Railroad - Colson Whitehead
The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty
Remembered Earth - Kirsten Stockman
The One-in-a-Million Boy - Monica Wood
The Summer Before the War - Helen Simonson
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
The Thirteenth Tale - Dianne Setterfield
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Behold The Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
Moving Violations - John Hockenberry
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
Water for Elephants - Sarah Gruen
Educated - Tara Westover
Strength in What Remains - Tracy Kidder