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Palo Alto Book Club


Palo Alto Book Club      
The Palo Alto Book Club still meets the third Wednesday every month at 1:00 pm (except no meeting in July or August). Our location has changed: 

When:        3rd Wed. / 1:00 pm
Location:   Tierra Del Sol Rec Center

At our meeting, we determine what group member will host the meeting the following month. We will send out the monthly agenda and the hostesses/ books to all members and phantom members. It will confirm the hostess’ contact information.  

​Membership
Since we are meeting at the Recreation Center we do have room for new members at this time. Please contact Cindy Everett first so she can get your information and get agenda’s out to you.

The phantom membership has not changed. 
There's always room for additional Phantom and Half Phantom Members (described below). 

To become a Regular, Phantom or Half Phantom member Contact Cindy Everett at cindyeve54@gmail.com  or 517 256-5539. 


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2022 Books:                                                                                            Club Rating
Jan. 19    The Woman They Could Not Silence   by Kate Moore            4.19
Feb. 16   The Four Winds                                       by Kristen Hannah     4.25
Mar. 16   The Lincoln Highway                              by Amor Towles          4.26
April 20   Count the Ways                                      by Joyce Maynard        4.05
May 18   The Lost and Found Bookshop             by Susan Wiggs            4.1
June 15   The Forgetting Time                               by Sharon Guskin
July                     (no meeting)
Aug.                   (no meeting)
Sept. 21   The Riviera Set                                        by Mary Lovell
Oct. 19     The River of Doubt                                by Candice Millard
Nov. 16    The Yearling                                            by Margorie Kennan Rawlings
Dec.                     Book TBD  /  Holiday Party

    Palo Alto Book Club - If you are a member and did not get the email with
    details, please call 
Cindy Everett at 517 256-5539
Book Club Phantom and Half Phantom Members

Phantom Membership ('PMs') and Half Phantom Membership ('Half PM')
Each month (or every other month for PMs), you are COMMITTED to emailing the hostess with the rating you gave the book (on a scale of one to five, five being best) by two days before the meeting. 

'PMs'
A category of membership for readers who would like to belong to a book club but for some reason or other cannot meet on the third Wednesday of the month or when the club is at full membership and you had to join the wait list. 

'Half PM'
Instead of reading 12 books a year, you may wish to be a Half PM and commit to reading a book every other month (6 books) and rate them, as described above. 

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Our Past Books (FYI):
2021
Jan.             No Book Assigned this month 
Feb. 17       A Good Neighborhood  by Therese Anne Fowler​

Mar. 17      28  Summers   by Elin Hilderbrand
Apr. 21       The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek   by K M Richardson
May 19       Handle with Care                        by Jodi Picoult 
June 16       The Devil in the White City        by Erik Larson
July 21                (no meeting)
Aug. 18              (no meeting)
Sept. 15      Flight Patterns                             by Karen White    and
                    The Mother-in-law                       
by Sally Hepworth
Oct. 20        This Tender Land                        by William Kent Krueger 
Nov. 17       Dark Horse                                   by Susan Mihalic 
Dec.                    (Holiday Party)
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2020
Jan.             No book assigned
Feb. 19       Educated, A Memoir   by Tara Westover.
                    The Week had an article about it and quoted Bill Gates as saying “An amazing story. It’s even                              better than what you’ve heard.”  Also, Newsday quoted, “One of the most improbable and
                    fascinating
 journeys I’ve read in recent years.”
March 18   The Year of Wonders    by Geraldine Brooks
April 15      The Woman in the Window    by A. J. Finn

May 20       The Body in Question    by Jill Clement
June 17       In an Instant        by Suzanne Redfearn
July/August       No Book Assigned this month

Sept. 16      The Story of Arthur Truluv       by Elizabeth Berg
Oct. 21        Dear Edward                              by Ann Napolitamo
Nov. 18       American Dirt                            by Jeanine Cummins

Dec. 16       The Water Dancer                     by Ta-Nahisi Coates
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2019
Jan.              No meeting / no book assigned  
​Feb. 20       The Girl of Hummingbird Lane    by Lisa See
Mar. 20       The Birth House    by Anne McKay
Apr. 17        The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society     by  Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Brown
May 15        One Thousand White Women     by Jim Ferguson
June 19       Lost Girls of Paris   by Pam Jenoff 
July 17         The Great Pretender   by Laura Kalpakian  (about Hollywood in the 50's)
Aug               No book assigned
Sept. 18       Dear Evan Hansen      by Val Emmich
Oct. 16         Where the Crawdads Sing     by Della Owen
Nov. 20        Beneath the Scarlet Sky     by Mark Sullivan
Dec. 18        No regular meeting this month
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2018
​Jan.              No meeting / no book assigned
​Feb 21        Crazy Rich Asians   by Kevin Kwan

Mar. 21      The Nightingale   by Kristin Hannah
Apr. 18       The Wife of Martin Guerre   by Janet Lewis 
​May 16       The Girls of Atomic City   by Denise Kierman;   
“The Invention of Wings” by Sue Monk Kidd
June 20   
    Circling the Sun   by Paula McLain  
July 18         Close Enough to Touch   by Colleen Oakley

Aug. 15        No Meeting
Sept. 19       Before We Were Yours   by Lisa Wingate
Oct. 17         Radium Girl   by Kate Moore
Nov. 21       Destiny of the Republic   by Candice Millary 

Dec.             No Book Assigned - Club Christmas Party
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2017
Jan.              Playing with Fire"    by Tess Garritson
Feb.             No Book Assigned
Mar.            Woman of God   by James Patterson
Apr.             The Jazz Palace“   by Mary Morris​
May             Bleeding Kansas"   by Sara Paretsky
​June 21       
Me Before You   by JoJo Moyes
July 19        The Husband’s Secret   by Liane Moriarty
Aug.            No Book Assigned
Sept. 20     Boys in the Boat   by Daniel James Brown
Oct 18        The Stars are Fire   by Anita Shreve
Nov. 15      
Setting Free the Kites    by Alex George
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2016  
Jan              Left Neglected   by Lisa Genova 
Feb             The Goldfinch   by Donna Tartt
Mar            Pioneer Women   by Joanna Stratton
Apr             Ahab’s Wife   by Senna Jeter Naslund
May           This is Where I Leave You   by Jonathon Tropper
June           A Place We Know Well   by Carol Susan McCarthy
July            A Man Called Ove”    by Fredrick Backman
Aug.          Yellow Crocus”    by Loila Ibrahim
Sept.         Before and Again”    by Doris Mortman   
Oct.           A Land Remembered”    by Patrick Smith
Nov.          Killing Reagan”    by Bill O’Reilly
Dec.          ​Sister Carrie    by Theodore Dreiser

2015
Jan              WILD, From Lost to Found on the PCT     by Cheryl Strayed
Feb             Day the World Came to Town: 911 in     by Jim DeFede
Mar            To Kill a Mocking Bird   BY Harper Lee
Apr             The Boy in Baby House 10     By Alan Philips & John Lahutsky
May            Dream When You’re Feeling Blue     by Elizabeth Berg
June            The Girl on the Train   by Paula Hawkins
Aug             The Way the Crow Flies     by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Sept            The Secret Keeper        by Kate Morton
Oct              Room        by Emma Donoughue
Nov             Orphan Train   by Kristina Kline    and     What She Left Behind   by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Dec          ​   Defending Jacob   by William Landry
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​(Prior to 2015, please check with the Book Club. They do pick some good ones!)
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