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To Kill a Mockingbird Book Club Questions and Recipe

5 Comments / Appetizers, Book Club Guides, Classics, Literary and Upmarket, Readers, Recipes / By Mallory

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the most beloved stories in American history, perhaps the most. It centers around the spirited and spunky Scout Finch as she struggles with a world-view shift and comes of age in a small Southern town rife with prejudice. If your book club picks To Kill a Mockingbird to read, I’ve provided book club questions and a delicious recipe for your meeting below! So if you are looking for food ideas and more, keep reading!

The Great Gatsby Book Club Questions and Recipe

3 Comments / Book Club Guides, Classics, Desserts, Readers, Recipes, Romance / By Mallory

The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most renown work. Maybe you know The Great Gatsby from high school English, where it’s often required reading (gasp!–If you’re in high school English now, hi there! Don’t worry, you’ll survive!). Anyway, maybe that’s been a while…but you have a vague memory of parties and wealth along with Gatsby’s doomed obsession for a past love.

Emma by Jane Austen Book Club Questions and Recipe

1 Comment / Book Club Guides, Classics, Desserts, Readers, Recipes, Romance / By Mallory

Emma is one of Jane Austen’s lesser known masterpieces (often behind Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility in readers’ minds). It is a comedy about romantic mishaps and youthful overconfidence. If you’ve read any of her books, you’ll know that Jane Austen is the queen of miscommunication. Her books often revolve around dangers of assumptions. Emma is no different, but I found the heroine to be especially charming in a unique way to other Austen heroines.

The Alice Network Book Club Questions and Recipe

6 Comments / Book Club Guides, Desserts, Mystery/Suspense, Readers, Recipes, Romance, Women's Fiction / By Mallory

The Alice Network is a Reese’s Book Club pick and I loved it. The novel is a dual timeline story featuring two women as they deal with both WWI and WWII. It is set primarily in France. When the two women meet in the aftermath of WWII, their stories converge and they set out on a journey of discovery and revenge. In fact, I’ve read quite a lot of WWII fiction (less WWI fiction) and I have to say that this was one of the only books I can remember feeling excited about throughout the read and happy at the ending.

The Invention of Wings Book Club Questions and Recipe

Leave a Comment / Book Club Guides, Desserts, Literary and Upmarket, Readers, Recipes, Women's Fiction / By Mallory

While researching books for Book Club Bites, I stumbled upon The Invention of Wings. It was released in 2015, but I had yet to read it. The premise was intriguing. In fact, I’m a sucker for Civil War fiction in the same way some people love WWII fiction. This is another book by Sue Monk Kidd with a young narrator. Two young narrators actually–Sarah and Handful. They both have unique voices, like Lily from The Secret Life of Bees. You also have the racial discrimination (civil rights vs slavery) and coming-of-age themes. However, that is where the similarity ends.