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 Granby Public Library The Un-Book-Club
Most book clubs involve reading and talking about a selected title. The un-book-club is a little different! The library staff will select a book that has received good reviews and has been the topic for book discussions in other libraries.
The loan period will be 14 days with one renewal allowed.
Share your opinion of these (and any other) books by logging onto the library catalog at home. Look for the Reader Review box, click on it, follow directions, and become a local book reviewer. If you'd like to read some reviews search these titles and click on Reader Reviews on the left side of the
screen: Patrimony: A True Story, Sight For Sore Eyes, Animals Make Us Human, Tales of Beedle the Bard. These are just some of the reviews written by local readers. Add your thoughts about the books you have read!
The January Un-Book Club title is Secret Kept, by Tatiana de Rosnay.
Bound to become a best seller, de Rosnay's latest (after Sarah's Key) is a taut, suspenseful, elegant novel with a secret at its heart that has the power to destroy one of the most wealthy families in contemporary Paris. As it begins, Antoine Rey, our narrator, is in a hospital waiting room eager to hear whether his beloved sister, Melanie, survived the car crash that brought him there. The two were driving back to Paris after a weekend at Noirmoutier Island, a getaway planned by Antoine as a surprise for Melanie's 40th birthday. As they reprise memories of the Rey family vacations on the island, including one trip shortly before their mother died, Melanie realizes the truth of the old family mystery, revealed as bits of memory pieced together along with a bit of detective work. This startling revelation causes her to
drive the car off the road, endangering her life and her brother's. By the end of the story, Antoine, Melanie, and their friends and family suffer several deaths, culminating in a vision for the future that makes life and their fleeting moments of happiness all the more precious.
Borrow a copy, read it, and share your thoughts online or on one of the reader review cards tucked in the book.
For those of you who would like to catch up on earlier Un-Book Club titles, our previous selections have been: Still Alice, Serendipity, 3 titles by Malcolm Gladwell, Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Teacher Man, Plum Wine, The Great Gatsby, Shadows in my house of sunshine, My Life in France, Loving Frank, The Friendship Test, Running in the Rain, My Abandonment, Little Bee, Sarah's Key, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, City of Thieves, The House on Mango Street, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, The Glass Castle, The Dogs of Bedlam Farm, The Boy who Harnessed the Wind, The Elegance of the Hedgebog, Half Broke Horses, Unlikely Friendships. Copies of all past selections are available to borrow at the library. The titles may also be found in the
online catalog by searching Unbook Club.
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