Books

Gina's Gals Book Club

One thing to know about our book club

Our book club is called Gina's Gals Book Club. Our leader is a librarian at the library where we meet. She is a "benevolent dictator" who selects all of our books and leads all of our discussions. She often brings supplementary materials, like maps, pictures, websites and other background information, which greatly enhance and expand our discussions.


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Our meetings

We have 12 members and we meet every other month at the Vernon Area Public Library District in Lincolnshire.

We loved

"The Language of Flowers" by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides, "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen, "This is Where I Leave You" by Jonathan Tropper and "Up From Orchard Street" by Eleanor Widmer.

We didn't like

"Wicked" by Gregory Maguire

What we do if someone hasn't read the book

Everyone who comes to our meetings has at least tried to read the book. We do not protect those who have not finished from "spoilers."

Authors we'd like to meet

We would like to meet Kazuo Ishiguro, the author of "Never Let Me Go," so we could ask what prompted him to write this unusual and disturbing story.

Up next

"Once We Were Brothers" by Ronald H. Balson, "Caleb's Crossing" by Geraldine Brooks, "The Age of Miracles" by Karen Thompson Walker and "The Snow Child" by Eowyn Ivey

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