Carol's Suggestions of Books for our October meeting

Book Club List for October, 2017

1. “ Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon” by Marjorie Kellogg, 1968, 208
pages
“An unusual 1960’s novel about three people with serious physical
disabilities who meet at a state hospital and decide to throw in their lot together
at a house of their own. The novel is short and the writing is terse and
understated.”

2. “Not Without Peril”, 150 Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of
New Hampshire, by Nicholas Howe, published in 2000, 293 pages.
“Not without peril” is an outstanding addition to the literature of
mountaineering. Howe’s work gives us a masterful, riveting, and meticulously
researched account of some of the most tragic encounters with the wrath of the
White Mountains. These stories are made even more chilling because of the
accessibility of these mountains to the recreational hiker” quote from Donna
Urey, White Birch Booksellers, N. Conway


3. Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox
“Thoroughly enjoyed this exciting book. Lynne's writing style was so captivating I
felt as though I was swimming by her side”
“Lynne Cox's book detailing her long distance swims is fascinating. It is easy to
get wrapped up in her adventures, and hard to put the book down. The writing is
effective and engaging, and the stories themselves awe-inspiring. Somewhere
around the middle of the book, I began to feel that her obsessiveness was
somewhat over the top, and wondered what the point was in her taking on the
increasingly difficult and death-defying swims. But near the end, when she is
finally able to achieve her lifelong goal of swimming across the Bering Strait, it all
comes together. I got the chills reading that chapter, not just because of the 32
degree water.” Quote from Amazon books


4.THE MOON IS LOW, by Nadia Hashimi. 416 pages, paperback, 2016
This story is simply told, in the voices of Fareiba, and her son Saleem
as they leave a troubled Afghanistan for a better life in London. The
story traces Fareiba's difficult life first as a motherless child, and later as
a widow with three children compelled to leave her country after her
husband is killed. Saleem's voice join in as the family begins its move.
The story is heart wrenching, yet the characters too engrossing to make
the reader easily put the book down. The kindness shown by strangers
occasionally sweetens the bitter deal that life has dealt the family, and
shows that there are decent people around. The story is topical, and
gives a refugee's perspective on the current crisis making global
headlines.


We Love You , Charlie Freeman by Kaitlan Greenidge 2016,
the Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage
Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie--have been invited to the
Toneybee Institute in rural Massachusetts to participate in a
research experiment. They will live in an apartment on campus
with Charlie, a young chimp abandoned by his mother. The
Freemans were selected for the experiment because they know
sign language; they are supposed to teach it to Charlie and
welcome him as a member of their family.
Isolated in their new, nearly all-white community not just by their
race but by their strange living situation, the Freemans come
undone. And when Charlotte discovers the truth about the
Institute’s history of questionable studies, the secrets of the past
begin to invade the present.