The Goodwin Library Book Club will be meeting June 19th to discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald's timeless classic The Great Gatsby. Copies are available at the library! At the meeting, we can discuss some of the books we'd like to read for the rest of the year. To have copies ready for the next meeting, however, I wanted to have the July book selected and then we can work from there. I was considering The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. The novel is a short, breezy summer read that takes place in New Hampshire and offers a lot to talk about through it's unique writing structure, unreliable narrator, and exciting tale of human perseverance and survival in the New Hampshire wilderness. Here's a synopsis of the novel from Amazon.com. Please let me know what you think! The July meeting will be July 17th at 6PM.
On a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian
Trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland quickly tires of the constant
bickering between her older brother, Pete, and her recently divorced
mother. But when she wanders off by herself, and then tries to catch up
by attempting a shortcut, she becomes lost in a wilderness maze full of
peril and terror. As night falls, Trisha has only her ingenuity as a
defense against the elements, and only her courage and faith to
withstand her mounting fears. For solace she tunes her Walkman to
broadcasts of Boston Red Sox baseball games and follows the gritty
performances of her hero, relief pitcher Tom Gordon. And when her
radio's reception begins to fade, Trisha imagines that Tom Gordon is
with her -- protecting her from an all-too-real enemy who has left a
trail of slaughtered animals and mangled trees in the dense, dark
woods....
USA Today A delightful read, a literary walk in the woods, and not just for baseball fans.
The Wall Street Journal Impressive...A wonderful story of courage, faith, and hope. It is eminently engaging and difficult to put down.
New York Daily News
A fast, scary read...King blasts a homer...[He] expertly stirs the
major ingredients of the American psyche -- our spirituality, fierce
love of children, passion for baseball, and collective fear of the bad
thing we know lurks on the periphery of life.
