Mad Reads Updates:
We had a great Book Club discussion yesterday on
The Berry Pickers – thank you to Deborah Ise for the great overview and leading the discussion.
August Book Club is
Monday August 19th at 4:30 – Book is
Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. Barbara will be leading this one.
September Book Club is Monday September 23
rd at 4:30 – Book is
James by Percival Everett… Thank you to Katie Stewart for offering to lead the discussion…
James by Percival Everett
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
The Curiosity House in Creemore carries this book…
Happy reading
Susan, Barbara and Cathy
Mad Reads Book Club 2024
Mad Reads Book Club dates for Summer 2024
Mon May 13
Mon June 17
Mon July 15
Mon Aug 19
September TBD
Our MAD READS Book Club selections for the summer 2024 take us on journeys to the skies with a determined female aviator, to Florence Italy in the 1500s, the east coast in the 60s and to Pennsylvania in the 70s. Each of the books tells a unique story and are chosen to bring focus to a diversity of themes, time periods and geography.
Monday May 13: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Spanning Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles,
Great Circle tells the unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost.
Monday June 17: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Florence, the 1550s. The Marriage Portrait” tells the somewhat true story of Lucrezia di Cosimo de’Medici, who at 15 was forced by her parents to marry the older Alfonso II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, thus merging two dynasties.
Monday July 15: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field.
Monday August 19: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Story by James McBride
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighbourhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows.
The MAD READS Book Club is open to all members. We meet at 4:30 to 5:30 at the Clubhouse. Please contact
[email protected] if you wish to join or request further information.