Discussing these The Wife Between Us book club questions with your reading group, you may notice an overall theme. Namely, how in this book things are so often not what they seem. In Vanessa and Richards’s marriage, they tended to see things very differently. Add in a mistress and a controlling older sister, and their ability Read more
The Wife Between Us is a psychological thriller filled with masterful twists and turns. What makes it special though is just how MANY of those twists there really are. From practically one chapter to the next you are left going “wait, WHAT?!”. You then have to reevaluate everything you thought you knew and find a Read more
One of my all-time favorite novels from Jenny Cogan, Little Beach Street Bakery makes an excellent reading choice for any book club. It’s a story of how no matter what the circumstances are that brought you there, it’s never too late to completely transform your life. Anyone who has ever gone through a major upheaval Read more
The beauty of reading a book like Shadow and Bone for your book club is that Fantasy truly can unlock the imagination. It’s easy to insert yourself into the story of someone who lives a life relatively close to yours. To think about what you would do in a situation not that far out of Read more
Conversations with Friends was the debut fictional novel of now-established literary darling, Sally Rooney. It’s also a complicated novel to talk about. Even after reading it twice, I genuinely still don’t know how I feel about it. On one hand, the writing is sharp and interesting. It pulls you along enough that I read the Read more
Girl A by Abigail Dean is the kind of book that sticks with you. When I first heard about this debut novel that was taking the literary world by storm, I had to take a moment. I wasn’t sure I wanted to read it. As another reviewer pointed out, recent history makes this really not Read more
When it comes to beautiful scenery, you can’t ask for much more than the lush vineyards of Tuscany that are the staging ground for Julianne Mclean’s These Tangled Vines. There are few books I have read recently that had me more nostalgic for the days of easy travel and jet setting. This is the latest Read more
With all of its moral gray areas, These Tangled Vines the novel is likely to spark some passionate debate in your book club. Questions like, who is right or wrong based on their actions? Does true love justify all behavior? Would you have done things differently? All of these are topics sure to have your Read more
Anatomy of a Scandal is a complex book that brings up a lot of moral and ethical questions. Do the privileged get held to a different standard than your average joe’s? How does a person’s position, especially in the government, get them out of scrapes? This book is incredibly topical in the era of the Read more
When I saw Anatomy of a Scandal was going to be made into a show on Netflix, I was curious about the novel it would be based on. Seeing the talented cast that would be bringing this psychological thriller to life, I knew it was time to read the book before my mental images were Read more