New Year, New Books, New Author

Last night we met with new book suggestions and have chosen books for February, March, May, October, and December. The February selection is The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. Here is a synopsis...

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

Also, here is a list of the other book suggestions. Look these over and come prepared next time to discuss the rest of the year's schedule. If you click on each, it will take you to a Goodreads synopsis:

Friends and Foes by Sarah M. Eden 

Divergent by Veronica Roth

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Mrs. Queen Takes the Train by William Kuhn

The End of  Your Life Bookclub by Will Schwalbe

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott

How to Hug a Porcupine by John Lewis Lund

A Poisoned Season by Tasha Alexander

The Anatomy of Peace by The Arbinger Institute

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax By Dorothy Gilman

The Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell

Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton

Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage

I still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg

*The Guardian (don't know who the author is, but if you suggested this book, leave a comment with who it is)

If you weren't there last night or there are any other books you would like to suggest, please leave a comment and I will add them to the list.

Happy reading!