{"id":4844,"date":"2023-05-02T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=4844"},"modified":"2023-05-02T06:30:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:30:09","slug":"our-book-club-celebrates-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/our-book-club-celebrates-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Book Club celebrates 30 years!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of our last meetings in the store<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Book club pre-covid at a restaurant, with author Jess Montgomery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our book club is celebrating 30 years!\u00a0 When we first opened the store, we didn’t have a book club, but requests led to a club being founded the second year, when we started off with Marcia Muller’s\u00a0Edwin of the Iron Shoes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>This is not the complete list (far from it!) but this list contains the books we loved, the books that sparked a great discussion of one kind or another, and many of them are favorites because the author actually attended and were so charming and funny (like Thomas Cook) or adorably brought their mothers (like Denise Swanson), that those events generated an interest by members of the book club wanting to read future installments.\u00a0 We were lucky enough to take Louise Penny and her husband to dinner with the club when A Fatal Grace\u00a0<\/em>(book 2) came out.\u00a0 Reading Raymond Chandler attracted perhaps the most men to ever attend a group; the discussion of Dorothy Sayers’ Gaudy Night<\/em> brought a passionate and feisty bunch of women, some of whom had read the book dozens of times.\u00a0 When the store closed, I knew I wanted to keep the club going, and we started out meeting at a restaurant.\u00a0 Then COVID hit and we moved to zoom – we are now on zoom in the colder months, and we meet twice in the warmer months, once in person and once on zoom.\u00a0 A giant advantage of zoom is that authors are able and willing to join us which has been delightful – we’ve welcomed Mariah Fredericks, Naomi Hirahara and Paige Shelton.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to many more years of discussing what we love to read, and all are welcome to join – just message me at store (at) auntagathas.com if you’d like a zoom link.\u00a0 I keep the website updated with the current book club read, just search on “book club.”\u00a0 I feel lucky to know this group of passionate readers.\u00a0 Thanks guys, for the many, many great discussions!<\/p>\n

Jusi Adler-Olsen,\u00a0The Keeper of Lost Causes<\/em><\/p>\n

A.X. Ahmad, The Caretaker<\/em><\/p>\n

Sharon Bolton (S.J.),\u00a0Sacrifice<\/em><\/p>\n

Jane Casey, The Burning<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sarah Caudwell,\u00a0Thus Was Adonis Murdered<\/em><\/p>\n

Raymond Chandler,\u00a0<\/em>The Big Sleep<\/em><\/p>\n

Ann Cleeves, Raven Black<\/em><\/p>\n

Jeffrey Cohen,\u00a0As Dog is My Witness<\/em><\/p>\n

Alyssa Cole, When No One is Watching<\/em><\/p>\n

Thomas Cook,\u00a0Red Leaves<\/em><\/p>\n

Colin Cotterill,\u00a0The Coroner’s Lunch<\/em><\/p>\n

S.A. Cosby,\u00a0Razorblade Tears<\/em><\/p>\n

Robert Crais,\u00a0L.A. Requiem<\/em><\/p>\n

Robert Crais,\u00a0Suspect<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jeffrey Deaver,\u00a0A Maiden’s Grave<\/em><\/p>\n

Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca<\/em><\/p>\n

Brian Freeman,\u00a0The Cold Nowhere<\/em><\/p>\n

Tana French,\u00a0Broken Harbor<\/em><\/p>\n

Tana French, In the Woods<\/em><\/p>\n

Leslie Glass,\u00a0Stealing Time<\/em><\/p>\n

Elly Griffiths, The Crossing Places<\/em><\/p>\n

Elly Griffiths, The Postscript Murders<\/em><\/p>\n

Michael Gruber,\u00a0Tropic of Night<\/em><\/p>\n

Denise Hamilton,\u00a0Sugar Skull<\/em><\/p>\n

Sophie Hannah,\u00a0The Wrong Mother<\/em><\/p>\n

Charlaine Harris, Shakespeare’s Landlord<\/em><\/p>\n

Libby Fischer Hellman,\u00a0An Eye for Murder<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Naomi Hirahara,\u00a0Clark & Division<\/em><\/p>\n

Naomi Hirahara,\u00a0Snakeskin Shamesin<\/em><\/p>\n

Anna Lee Huber, The Anatomist’s Wife<\/em><\/p>\n

Arnuldur Indridason,\u00a0Jar City<\/em><\/p>\n

Julia Keller,\u00a0A Killing in the Hills<\/em><\/p>\n

Faye Kellerman,\u00a0The Ritual Bath<\/em><\/p>\n

Jonathon King,\u00a0The Blue Edge of Midnight<\/em><\/p>\n

William Kent Krueger,\u00a0Iron Lake<\/em><\/p>\n

William Kent Krueger,\u00a0Ordinary Grace<\/em><\/p>\n

Dennis Lehane,\u00a0Mystic River<\/em><\/p>\n

Laura Lippman,\u00a0What the Dead Know<\/em><\/p>\n

Alex Marwood,\u00a0The Darkest Secret<\/em><\/p>\n

Sujata Massey,\u00a0The Widows of Malabar Hill<\/em><\/p>\n

Derek B. Miller,\u00a0Norwegian by Night<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Allison Montclair,\u00a0The Right Sort of Man<\/em><\/p>\n

Robert B. Parker,\u00a0The Godwulf Manuscript<\/em><\/p>\n

P.J. Parrish,\u00a0The Dead of Winter<\/em><\/p>\n

Louise Penny,\u00a0A Fatal Grace<\/em><\/p>\n

Louise Penny,\u00a0Still Life<\/em><\/p>\n

Nancy Pickard,\u00a0The Virgin of Small Plains<\/em><\/p>\n

Ruth Rendell,\u00a0A Dark Adapted Eye<\/em><\/p>\n

Ruth Rendell,\u00a0A Judgement in Stone<\/em><\/p>\n

Peter Robinson,\u00a0In a Dry Season<\/em><\/p>\n

Jonathan Santlofer,\u00a0The Last Mona Lisa<\/em><\/p>\n

Dorothy L. Sayers,\u00a0Gaudy Night<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Tom Rob Smith,\u00a0Child 44<\/em><\/p>\n

Julia Spencer-Fleming,\u00a0In the Bleak Midwinter<\/em><\/p>\n

Dana Stabenow,\u00a0A Cold Day for Murder<\/em><\/p>\n

Michael Stanley, A Carrion Death<\/em><\/p>\n

Chevy Stevens,\u00a0Still Missing<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah Stewart-Taylor,\u00a0The Mountains Wild<\/em><\/p>\n

Vidar Sundstol,\u00a0Only the Dead<\/em><\/p>\n

Denise Swanson,\u00a0Murder of a Small Town Honey<\/em><\/p>\n

Charles Todd,\u00a0A Test of Wills<\/em><\/p>\n

Minette Walters,\u00a0The Sculptress<\/em><\/p>\n

Lauren Wilkinson,\u00a0American Spy<\/em><\/p>\n

Jacqueline Winspear,\u00a0Maisie Dobbs<\/em><\/p>\n

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Our book club is celebrating 30 years!\u00a0 When we first opened the store, we didn’t have a book club, but requests led to a club being founded the second year, when we started off with Marcia Muller’s\u00a0Edwin of the Iron Shoes.\u00a0\u00a0This is not the complete list (far from it!) but this list contains the books … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1085,167,1086],"class_list":["post-4844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","tag-30-years","tag-book-club","tag-favorite-reads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4847,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions\/4847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}