{"id":5550,"date":"2024-02-17T07:42:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=5550"},"modified":"2024-02-19T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T19:56:17","slug":"march-may-book-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/march-may-book-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"March &#038; May Book clubs &#8211; Laurie R. King rules the month of May!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5553\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LRK_Smile-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5553 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LRK_Smile-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LRK_Smile-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LRK_Smile-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LRK_Smile-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LRK_Smile-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LRK_Smile-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LRK_Smile-scaled.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurie R. King<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/beekeepers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5549 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/beekeepers-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/beekeepers-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/beekeepers.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>In March, we&#8217;ll meet on zoom on Sunday, March 17 at 2 p.m. to discuss Jesse Q. Sutanto&#8217;s Edgar nominated <em>Vera Wong&#8217;s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>This meeting was moved to March so we&#8217;d have copies available, and we do!\u00a0 This is such a fun, hilarious, yet sweet read.\u00a0 Look forward to the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re skipping April and meeting twice in May.\u00a0 Join us May\u00a0 5 at 2 p.m. on zoom to discuss Laurie R. King&#8217;s classic, <em>The Beekeeper&#8217;s Apprentice.\u00a0 <\/em>And, wonderful news &#8211; <strong>Laurie will be joining us<\/strong>!\u00a0 This is the 30th anniversary of the first Mary Russell novel, where Mary meets the elderly Sherlock Holmes.\u00a0 From Kirkus, in 1994: &#8220;Nothing in King&#8217;s brooding debut <em>A Grave Talen<\/em>t (1993) could have prepared you for this uncommonly rich Sherlockian pastiche, in which the great detective is brought out of retirement among the bees of Sussex by a new amanuensis, budding theologian Mary Russell. Meeting the great man at the awkward age of 15, Russell (as he calls her) proves herself his intellectual equal even before their first case- -mysterious bouts of illness that befall their victims only in clear weather. After investigating a robbery and a kidnapping with Holmes, Mary goes to Oxford, and just when you&#8217;ve resigned yourself to more unrelated adventures, the story takes off with a series of bombings that put both Holmes and Mary in danger, and call forth both their sharpest mental efforts and their deepest feelings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In May we&#8217;ll meet <strong><em>again<\/em><\/strong> in person on Sunday, May 26 at 2 p.m., and on zoom on Wednesday, May 29, at 7 p.m.\u00a0 \u00a0We&#8217;ll be reading Deborah Crombie&#8217;s latest Kincaid &amp; James novel, <em>A<\/em><em>\u00a0Killing of Innocents.\u00a0 <\/em>Crombie&#8217;s book is set in London and follows Duncan as he takes on a stabbing death, and the way his case intersects with Gemma&#8217;s new role in the knife crimes department.\u00a0 This is a wonderfully written and layered novel, one of my favorites of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Message us on facebook or email us at store (at) auntagathas.com for directions or a zoom link.\u00a0 All are welcome!\u00a0 Copies of all the books are available on the website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/vera-wong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4859\" src=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/vera-wong-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/vera-wong-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/vera-wong.jpg 522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/killing-of-innocents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4800\" src=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/killing-of-innocents-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/killing-of-innocents-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/killing-of-innocents.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March, we&#8217;ll meet on zoom on Sunday, March 17 at 2 p.m. to discuss Jesse Q. Sutanto&#8217;s Edgar nominated Vera Wong&#8217;s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.\u00a0\u00a0This meeting was moved to March so we&#8217;d have copies available, and we do!\u00a0 This is such a fun, hilarious, yet sweet read.\u00a0 Look forward to the discussion. We&#8217;re skipping &#8230; <a title=\"March &#038; May Book clubs &#8211; Laurie R. King rules the month of May!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/march-may-book-clubs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about March &#038; May Book clubs &#8211; Laurie R. 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