I can't believe our little book club has made it this far! Ten books done, and we have more members than ever! These last two books have been clear favorites for everyone, so I wanted to make sure that I got our reviews of them posted.
This month's book was The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
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The Paris Wife is a historical fiction novel about Ernest Hemmingway's first wife, Hadley, and their life together in Paris. The book is fiction, but the author used letters between the couple as well as Hemmingway's writing to make the book as true as possible. Everyone loved the book and almost everyone jumped on wikipedia after finishing it to do more research on Hemmingway...it was THAT interesting! A lot of the girls recommended watching Midnight in Paris after reading the book because it's in a similar vein, so that is now in our Netflix queue.
July's book that I forgot to post was Room by Emma Donoghue
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This one sounds a little creepy, but stick with me here. Room takes place seven years after a woman has been kidnapped. She's been hidden in a little shed in the guy's backyard and has had a five year old son by her captor. The kid has never been outside of this little room. Without giving anything away, I can tell you that a large chunk of the book deals with what life would be like if your entire universe was only a small shed, and you had virtually no knowledge of the outside world. Because the story is told from the innocent kid's point of view, the story is less creepy than it could potentially be. Some people found the five year old narrator to be annoying, but the majority of everyone liked the book.
For September, our book is Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, a murder mystery!
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