We love Books and the time to read a good one to share and discuss is a treasured part of our wonderful lives. We also love getting together to relax with our Winter Women friends to share some snacks and good conversation about what we are reading. Let’s combine both!
Our wonderful member, Jeri has offered to do the WWPB Book Group hosted at her home this month. Please bring a small tapas plate or snack to share. Bring your own beverages and some notes what you liked or thought about the book. Also if you like bring a book or a suggestion for a future book we all may enjoy id live if someone offers to host as well for a future Book Group event. Jeri’s telephone phone number is in the Private Comments below. Please text her for her address and to confirm. As always my number is available there as well you are very welcome to contact me if you would like to host a future book group event
I saw Costco has the book for sale for $16. .You can also do as an audio polor rent from the PBC Public Library If you have a cooy and aoupd be open to share thats nice too
We’ll meet up at Jeri’s to discuss “The Women“ while we snack and get to know one another and authors and books we like.
I’ve been hearing a lot about author Kristin Hannah and discovered she is a Goodreads favorite author as well. Her newest book called “The Women” is a wonderful story about women who went to Vietnam during the era that many of us grew up in. I loved her book “The Nightingale” that went deep Into the roles women played during WW2 as Hitler invaded France. This book delves into the once unlmown role of women in Vietnam.
For me, I remember tragically coming home from high school each day with my Sweden-born mother glued to the TV and the shocking daily body counts. It was only many years later I learned of the horrors of that war and how it changed millions of peoples’ lives forever. This is the story of one woman who initially signed up to go to Vietnam for love and found something else in herself.
“#1 bestseller on The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times!
From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women―at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets―and becomes one of―the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost.
But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.
The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.”
As always, please be mindful of your RSVP as we limit the number of guests for these events. Please don’t be a no-show and if you change your RSVP after 11 AM the same day of the event that’s also considered impolite.
Of course, emergencies happen, so I put my telephone number in the private comments so that you can text me And let us know that you will be absent. Thanks for being a wonderful Winter Woman of the Palm Beaches.
