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ZOOM - June 9, 2020
Anne Seymour - We Were The Lucky Ones - Georgia Hunter Anne Atkinson - Ru - Kim Thuy The year 2020 brought the COVID-19 pandemic into our Pat Wheatley – Road Ends – Mary Lawson lives. It has been quite an adjustCathie Harrower – Just Mercy – Brian Stevenson ment. Understatement! Judy Lowood – Austin Downs Station - Jo Jackson Diana Carwithen - Rosie Project – Graham Simsion We all missed the comraderie of the June Pot Luck gathering and Marilyn Lundstrom – Common Ground - Janice Marriot decided that we were savvy Caroline Morrison – Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman enough to learn a new trick. Denise Rothney – Death in Brittany – Jean Luc Bannelec Enter ZOOM Meetings. Simone Lavoie – Serpent on the Crown – Elizabeth Peters (Amelia Peabody series) It was decided that we should Jeanette Rawek - The Beekeepers Apprentice – Laurie R King have a focus for our first get toDebbie Craig - Lands of Lost Borders – Kate Harris gether. Book recommendations! Judy Hopewell – Becoming – Michelle Obama With self-isolation we all found Chris Vanier – The Boys in the Boat – Daniel James Brown we had been reading more that usual. Betty Locke – Past Imperfect - Julian Fellowes A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles Enjoy ! Cdn Author Donald Cameron – Order of Canada – Betty’s cousin Bridget Bruneski - Just Mercy - Brian Stevenson Know My Name - Chanel Miller Violet Smythe – The Paris Seamstress – Natasha Lester Secret Daughter – S. Gowda. The Lost Girls of Paris - P. Jenefs …anything by Louise Penny Barbara Qualley – Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens The Great Alone - Kristen Hannah Ruth Rutledge – The Orenda -Joseph Boyden Catherine Coulis – Author Henry David Thoreau Marion Craig – Holiday with Violence - Ellis Peters Ria Lewis – The Way the Crow Flies – Ann Marie McDonald Carolynn Dallaire – Ink – Ted Bishop. Y is for Yesterday – Sue Grafton All the Devils are Here - Louise Penny Leslie Healy – Author Mary Higgins Clark and Harry Potter series Marilyn Boechler – Becoming – Michelle Obama Joyce Gammie - Lost Roses – Martha H. Kelly Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel Carroll McLaurin – The Third Juror – James Patterson Paullette McLaren – Author John Vaillant The Break - Katherena Vermette A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki Washington Black / Half-Blood Blues - Esi Edugen Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese. Trisha Field – The Elliott Trilogy by Elizabeth Goudge The Maisie Dobbs series by N Y Times bestselling author, Jacqueline Winspear A mystery series by a new B.C. Author, Iona Whishaw - The Lane Winslow series Christine Hill - Anything by Tracy Chevalier, Ann Patchett, Ian McEwan, Alan Bennett and Sally Vickers. Three favourites are: ‘All the Light We Couldn’t See’ by Anthony Doerr, ‘Goodbye Sarajevo’ by Atka Reid, and ‘Alice in Exile’ by Piers Paul Read.
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