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What’s New for Fall

2 Comments / Book Club Guides, Readers / By Mallory

I’m thrilled to tell you about an exciting collaboration with two resources I think you’ll find beneficial for your book club.

The first is The Best of Women’s Fiction Podcast hosted by Lainey Cameron and Ashley Hasty.

While you might not realize it, there is a large crossover between what is defined as women’s fiction and what is considered to be book club fiction. Most of the books I have featured on Book Club Bites could fall into both categories. I’ll be collaborating with Lainey Cameron and Ashley Hasty and The Best of Women’s Fiction Podcast to feature the authors they are hosting on the podcast.

What will that mean?

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie Book Club Questions and Food Ideas

2 Comments / Book Club Guides, Literary and Upmarket, Mystery/Suspense, Readers / By Mallory

If you’re a fan of Agatha Christie, you probably know that in 1926 Mrs. Christie went missing for 11 days. When she surfaced, she claimed to have no memory of what happened during that time and to this day it remains a mystery.

That is until Marie Benedict hypothesized perhaps the most logical reason for Mrs. Christie’s disappearance in her latest novel The Mystery of Mrs. Christie. While I was skeptical that Benedict could offer a plausible story for Mrs. Christie’s disappearance after all these years, I’m happy to tell you that she does!

The Flight Girls Book Club Questions and Food Ideas

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

If you’ve read your fair share of WWII novels, you may think there isn’t anything new in the genre, but have you read any stories about the WASP? That is, the Women Airforce Service Pilots. You may have heard about the Air Transport Auxiliary in England or the Night Witches from Russia, but the WASP were American women pilots employed during the war.

Their story is fascinating and in Noelle Salazar’s debut, The Flight Girls, we get a picture of all they endured and accomplished. The novel follows one fictional WASP, Audrey Coltrane, as she experiences Pearl Harbor, signs up for service, and flies (literally) through the years of the war.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Book Club Questions and Food Ideas

Leave a Comment / Book Club Guides, Literary and Upmarket, Readers / By Mallory

Are you a fan of indie bookstores? Do you love short story collections? How about novels about found families? If so, then Gabrielle Zevin’s hit, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, should be on your list.

The novel’s central character, A.J. Fikry, is an independent book store owner and widower living on remote Alice Island. When a young girl shows up in his bookstore with no family to left to claim her, A.J.’s life takes an unexpected turn.

Klara and the Sun Book Club Questions and Food Ideas

Leave a Comment / Book Club Guides, Literary and Upmarket, Readers / By Mallory

If you haven’t heard of Kazuo Ishiguro, he is a Nobel Prize winner whose works, such as Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, captivate readers. In his latest work, Klara and the Sun, Ishiguro tackles an A.I. infiltrated future society where Artificial Friends become the norm.

Unlike many A.I. centered tales, here the A.I. is friend not foe. In fact, the novel is told by an Artificial Friend, Klara, who longs for and is finally chosen by a child.