Book Club pick for August: "What I Saw and How I Lied"

READ THIS FIRST
The following plot summary gives quite a bit away. If you would rather be surprised just check the sidebar for book club meeting time info.

Becca got 6 copies of this book from Logan Library in a book club bundle. If you have a copy please comment when you are finished so we can pass the copies around. Also if you need a copy leave a comment so we know who is next in line. Thank you for your support. Read on.

In 1947, 15-year-old Evie, her mother, Bev, and her stepfather, Joe, leave Brooklyn for a vacation in Palm Beach, FL, during the off season. There they meet Arlene and Tom Grayson, who lavish attention on the family and convince Joe to go into the hotel business with them. When Peter, an army acquaintance of Joe's, appears, Evie is smitten by his charm and attention. Her budding interest in romance, while protectively discouraged by her parents, is actually encouraged by Arlene, who helps Evie develop a sense of style. Evie enjoys her outings with Peter and interprets her mother's insinuating presence as protective, when in reality Bev is having an affair with the younger man. Joe's jealous distrust of his wife, established while he was at war in Europe, does not obviate the intimacy between Bev and Peter. Evie's closeness to her mother will not permit her to acknowledge the affair even when it becomes impossible to deny. Meanwhile pervading anti-Semitism sours the hotel deal, and the Graysons are forced out of Palm Beach. When Joe insists on one last boat trip, Peter dies during a storm and Joe is accused of murder. It is during the ensuing hearing that Evie learns that adults, even those closest to her, are not always what they seem.
Blundell navigates this multidimensional plotline with unique, well-developed characters and insightful dialogue. Yet it is Evie and her rapidly maturing perception of herself and those around her that carry the story. In many ways she becomes the adult in the group, motivated by truth and justice rather than greed or superficial appearances.

Book Club Meeting Reminder

Hey ladies! I am just shouting out a reminder for our meeting tomorrow. I was confused and told some of you that it was next week (sorry Becca!). I have had the strangest month ever and am more of a space cadet than usual. If you want to hear all about my weird month come to book club. It is tomorrow, JULY 22, at Krista's house. Sorry for any confusion. Can't wait to see you all!

A Camp Flashback

Here are some pictures from YW camp. My favorite is the cuddly couple sharing a bunk!

For July: "My Cousin Rachel" by Daphne DuMaurier

My Cousin Rachel is the gripping story of a Victorian young man whose placid life in the English countryside is turned inside-out by an older woman. The young man is Philip Ashley, the novel's narrator. Orphaned at an early age, he's been raised by his bachelor uncle Ambrose, who falls in love and marries while traveling in Florence, then dies there in suspicious circumstances. Shortly after her husband's death, Ambrose's widow turns up in England, setting the stage for the unfolding of a relationship between the callow Philip and the beautiful, sophisticated, mysterious widow. And while Philip impetuously embraces the role of the moth flapping full-tilt toward the flame, the widow never puts a foot wrong. Is she designedly luring Philip to his doom? Might she even have had a hand in Ambrose's death? Originally published in 1951, My Cousin Rachel was made into a film in 1953.

We will meet at Krista's house on July 22nd at 7:00 PM. Happy reading!

PS- I want pictures from Heber Valley Camp posted here!

For Review in June: "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana DeRosnay

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. De Rosnay's U.S. debut fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand Tézac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the Vél' d'Hiv' roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand's family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discovers—especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to survive—the more she uncovers about Bertrand's family, about France and, finally, herself. Already translated into 15 languages, the novel is De Rosnay's 10th (but her first written in English, her first language). It beautifully conveys Julia's conflicting loyalties, and makes Sarah's trials so riveting, her innocence so absorbing, that the book is hard to put down.

We will meet at Caron's house on June 24th at 7:00 PM. I am looking forward to seeing you all there!

May's Meeting

Hi Ladies-
There has been a change of plans. Book club will be held at my house on Thursday. Regular time. So here are the specs:

Book Club meeting
Thursday, May 27
Mindy's house
7:00 PM

We may watch the movie if enough people are interested. So if you are one of those people, feel free to bring your jammies along with you. See you Thursday!

Health Days Weekend

Yay for Linda completing her first 10K!!!
It was a great day of running, eating and ...
-3 for me! (Shanna)