Palo Alto Book Club
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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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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):
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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) 
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 
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 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 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 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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