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Category: Book Club 2

Posts for the Book Club 2 Group

  • ‘Educated’ by Tara Westover - A Memoir

    The book highlighted the amazing level of endurance and resilience of human beings, but also the detrimental power individuals can exact over others. Read more

  • ‘The Nightingale’ by Kristen Hannah

    Feedback from the group was mixed. Mostly that it was an easy read, was enjoyable and would be a good plot for a film.  However, there was criticism regarding historical and geographical inaccuracies in the plot and that it was overly sentimental. Read more

  • 2024 Annual Review

    Overall book choice winner: ‘Still Life’ by Sarah Winman.  This book was a clear winner out of the eleven books chosen in 2024. Read more

  • 2021 - 2023 Annual Reviews

    Overall book choice winners:  2021: ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’, by Delia Owens.  2022: ‘The Mercies’, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave.  2023: ‘The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane’, by Lisa See. Read more