Fiction Book Club

The selection for February is Katherine Howe's The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history -- the Salem witch trials.

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What makes this book especially interesting is that Katherine Howe is completing a Ph.D. in American and New England Studies and is a descendant of Elizabeth Proctor, who survived the Salem witch trials, and Elizabeth Howe, who did not. The idea for this novel developed while Howe was studying for her doctoral qualifying exams and walking her dog through the woods between Marblehead and Salem.

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This is a work of fiction, but you will feel caught between two periods, the 21st Century with Connie Goodwin and the 1690s with Deliverance Dane. I couldn't put it down!

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I hope you can be with us for the discussion of this book on February 11th at 7:30 p.m. in the B&N Cafe.

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Jane

THIRD MONDAY DETECTIVES

We had a great discussion on the 18th of Louise Penny's Still Life. We all liked it and many of us have or will read more in her series of Three Pines. Lunch at the bistro and browsing through Myrna's bookstore would be an ideal afternoon for all of us. Too bad it's not a real town!
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Our selection for February 15th is Ruth Rendell's From Doon With Death.
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Synopsis
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"From Doon With Death is Ruth Rendell's first novel in her highly popular Chief Inspector Wexford series. No one believed Mr. Parsons' fears for his missing wife. Until two days later, she was discovered in the woods, her face swollen and her clothes damply clinging to her lifeless body. With no useful witnesses and a victim known only for her mundane life, Chief Inspector Wexford has only one clue — a lipstick found at the scene. To find the killer, Wexford must first discover a motive. Because what he can't understand, is how such an unassuming woman became the victim of such a passionate and violent crime."
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I hope that you will pick up a copy at B&N and join us at 10:00 a.m. February 15th in the B&N Cafe.
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Jane