The September 2026 meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Kay’s. Anne and Jodi were unable to attend. Kay provided a lovely assortment of crackers topped with cow and goat cheese, carrot curls, and cucumbers as well as pears morsels in cherry balsamic from Drizzle and her own plum sauce. Everything was so delicious!
We talked about our favorite children’s books and Kay read the Little Red Hen to us. Her version was an updated copy (the kids were watching Henny Potter on TV), but it was an American fable first collected by Mary Mapes Dodge in St. Nicholas magazine in 1874. Cindy’s favorite children’s book is Charlotte’s Web and Sandie’s is The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night, based on a folk song sung to three generations of her family as children (Burl Ives).
Books Read over the summer:
Jodi: I See You Called in Dead, by John Kenney.
Theo of Golden, by Alfred Levi. BOOK FOR OCTOBER
Karen: The Book Club for Troublesome Women, by Marie Bostwick. 1960’s setting, humorous. BOOK FOR NOVEMBER
Theo of Golden, by Alfred Levi.
Isola, by Allegra Goodman. Inspired by the real life story of a sixteenth-century heroine. A young woman and her lover are marooned on a deserted island off the east coast of Canada.
Whistler, by Ann Patchett
The Midnight Train, by Matt Haig. Author of the Midnight Library, which we read in 2021. BOOK FOR FEBRUARY
Things we Never Say, by Elizabeth Joy Strout
Cindy Read: Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke
The Calamity Club, by Kathryn Stockett. Author of The Help. BOOK FOR DEC/JAN
Circe, by Madilyn Miller
Song of Achilles, by Madilyn Miller
The Odyssey and Spiderman movies, just a few of what she watched over the summer at the Pickford Cinema.
Kay Read: Dan Brown’s Origin, which we read in 2022 and she said it’s particularly relevant to what’s going on now.
Sandie Read:
The Midnight Train, by Matt Haig
The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller. On Amazon’s Best Books of the Year List in 2012, recent Ridley Scott movie with so-so reviews.
Swan Song, by Robert McCammon, first published in 1987. A post-apocalypse, Good vs Evil sci-fi/fantasy, similar to The Stand, by Steven King. Currently filming underway for a television series.
Meetings will be organized by members and can be held at their home of restaurant of choice.
September – Kay
October – Cindy – Theo of Golden, by Alfred Levi.
November – Sandie will make reservations for our holiday gathering at Lombardi’s – The Book Club for Troublesome Women, by Marie Bostwick.
December – No Meeting – Book for Dec/Jan The Calamity Club, by Kathryn Stockett
January – Linda
February – Jodi or Anne – The Midnight Train, by Matt Haig
March – Karen
April – Jodi or Anne
May – Sandie
