The Book Club at Wolverine Farm

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I'd like to have everyone over for a little fun and festive chat and cheer following the book discussion. Come for the book group and stay for the Schmoozefest or just come for the merrymaking - whatever works for you, The Book Club at Wolverine Farm December Meetup and Christmas Open House! Share a little Christmas cheer with your fellow book clubbers and celebrate the season!

I'll be serving Mimosas, Bloody Mary's, coffee and tea, and a few holiday goodies as well, feel free to bring something to share if you wish, your most coveted holiday treat, a bag of chips or come as you are but ...

I do hope you'll come!

I plan on having a loose book club discussion and then let it morph into holiday merriment. We might talk about some plans I'd like to consider for this group, and we will have a book swap, almost anything can happen, who knows? It's the holidays!

After scouring book lists I think I've found something I like for our Christmas Meetup read. It has everything, it's very short for this busy time of year- it can be read in an afternoon, a novella reminiscent of a Charles Dickens Christmas tale with a Magdalen Laundry twist and a man trying to do the right thing. Here is what Amazon has to say about it...

"Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
"A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." —Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers
Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
An international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers."

Bring books for the book swap, wear your ugliest Christmas sweater if you want to, and I HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

Our book for January, "One Two Three" by Laurie Frankel, is Mimi's choice, and it looks like it will make for a good discussion! Here's a description ripped from the internet ...

"From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times best-selling author of This Is How It Always Is, a Reese's Book Club & Hello Sunshine Book Pick, comes One Two Three, a timely, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry...and laugh again.
In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does....
Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are especially beloved. Mirabel is the smartest person anyone knows, and no one doubts it just because she can’t speak. Monday is the town’s purveyor of books now that the library’s closed - tell her the book you think you want, and she’ll pull the one you actually do from the microwave or her sock drawer. Mab’s job is hardest of all: get good grades, get into college, get out of Bourne.
For a few weeks seventeen years ago, Bourne was national news when its water turned green. The girls have come of age watching their mother’s endless fight for justice. But just when it seems life might go on the same forever, the first moving truck anyone’s seen in years pulls up and unloads new residents and old secrets. Soon, the Mitchell sisters are taking on a system stacked against them and uncovering mysteries buried longer than they’ve been alive. Because it's hard to let go of the past when the past won't let go of you."

I HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!