{"id":4875,"date":"2023-03-09T06:41:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T14:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2023-03-09T06:41:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T14:41:55","slug":"april-may-book-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/april-may-book-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"April & May Book Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In April and May, we’ll be getting back to in person meetings plus a zoom meetings for those too far away to make it to the in person group.\u00a0 In April, we’ll meet in person at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 23, and on zoom on Wednesday, April 26 at 7 p.m.\u00a0 In May, we’ll meet in person on Sunday, May 28 at 2 p.m., and on zoom on Wednesday, May 31 at 7 p.m.\u00a0 Please message us on facebook or email us at stores (at) auntagathas.com for details on how to meet or join the zoom group.<\/p>\n

April’s selection is Harini Negendra’s spectacular first book,\u00a0The Bangalore Detectives Club,\u00a0<\/em>one of my favorite reads of 2022.\u00a0 The book is nominated for several major mystery awards, including an Edgar.\u00a0 Set in 1921 Bangalore, India, it’s a perfect traditional detective novel with the added bonus of a spectacular setting.\u00a0 Here’s a link to my review in Mystery Scene.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In May, from suggestions from the club, I thought we’d try another classic.\u00a0 This year celebrates the 50th birthday of Tony Hillerman’s\u00a0Dance Hall of the Dead,\u00a0<\/em>which won an Edgar for best novel that year.\u00a0 It’s the second novel in the Joe Leaphorn\/Jim Chee series.\u00a0 It came out the same year (1973) as Robert Parker’s\u00a0The Godwulf Manuscript,\u00a0<\/em> which we enjoyed discussing earlier this year. Here’s a review from Kirkus: “Navajo Lt. Joe Leaphorn of The Blessing Way who walks and talks softly is back again trying to find out why a youngster, George Bowlegs, also a Navajo, is missing while his friend from the adjacent Zuni reservation has been killed. George, a strung out, lonely kid with mystical inclinations, has been most recently attracted to the Zuni kachinas and there are more earthly things to consider \u2014 an archaeological dig and a commune-narcotics drop. Not too seriously \u2014 the story’s not the thing \u2014 it’s Hillerman’s anything but wooden Indians and the way in which he informs their way of life with affection and dignity.”<\/p>\n

Happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In April and May, we’ll be getting back to in person meetings plus a zoom meetings for those too far away to make it to the in person group.\u00a0 In April, we’ll meet in person at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 23, and on zoom on Wednesday, April 26 at 7 p.m.\u00a0 In May, we’ll … 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":[4],"tags":[167,1105,1012,552,1106,548],"class_list":["post-4875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-book-club","tag-dance-hall-of-the-dead","tag-harini-negendra","tag-joe-leaphorn","tag-the-bangalore-detectives-club","tag-tony-hillerman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875","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=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4877,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions\/4877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}