Celia's Book Club

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Thursday, October 2, 2025

The Elephant Keeper - sad and well written

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 We had a lovely time at Carol's to discuss The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson, an historic novel, set in England in the 1700...
Sunday, September 7, 2025

The Phantom Tollbooth is just wonderful

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Welcome back to Karen Wimbish, who is one of our original book club members, from back in 2007! Hard to believe it has been this long, and n...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Our Childhood Favorites! What a fun night!

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 Thanks to everyone who came to discuss their favorite books from childhood, what a fun night we had and there were so many interesting titl...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Dictionary of Lost Words - interesting!

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 Thank you to Sally Ashburn for hosting at her absolutely lovely home, it was just great! And we had a short but interesting talk about The ...
Friday, January 24, 2025

James was a really good book

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It turns out that all the book reviewers and book prize judges were right, Percival Everett's Jame s   was really really good.  We had a...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Our Annual Holiday Swap! What fun!

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 Hi all, we had a wonderful time at Fiona's beautiful house unwrapping and swapping books. What a great event! The books were all well-c...
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Friday, December 6, 2024

Dates for 2025 so far

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 Hi all, I forgot to include the dates we decided on for 2025 at least so far. Sally Ashburn has volunteered to host January, and Margo for ...
Monday, December 2, 2024

Absolution - a great conversation, still questions about the story

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 Hi all, happy holidays! First off, we are scheduled for our annual book swap holiday party at Fiona's on December 16 at 6:30. I will co...
Monday, November 4, 2024

The Wager - a long story of historic importance

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 David Grann's  The Wager  tells an historically important story that is little known, equal parts historic retelling and adventure tale...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Fates and Furies sured stirred up reactions

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Fates and Furies  by Lauren Groff has a very interesting structure, with two sides of the same marriage, and they could not have been more o...
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