Book Corner
Our monthly book club from the comfort of your own armchair.
Novel Kicks Book Club: The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Hello April.
Better still, hello to British Summer Time.
This month, the book club title is The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris.
This is a book I have been meaning to read for a while. As usual, I have posted a question below to start the discussion. If you’ve read this, I’d love to know what you think. If you haven’t, there is plenty of time to read it. Come join me in the comments below.
Anyone can take part in this book club and you can be in your favourite chair with a cup of tea.
About The Tattooist of Auschwitz:
I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart.
In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival – scratching numbers into his fellow victims’ arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust.
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Novel Kicks Book Club: The Last by Hanna Jameson
Viking, 2019
Hello March and greetings to a brand new book to discuss.
I personally am very excited by this month’s pick which, if you’ve not already guessed is The Last by Hanna Jameson.
When I read this one, I couldn’t put it down and I am looking forward to talking about it. I do at any opportunity. As normal, I have added a question below to kick off the discussion.
Remember, anyone can take part in our book club and it can be from the comfort of your sofa, bed, whatever.
About The Last:
Historian Jon Keller is on a trip to Switzerland when the world ends. As the lights go out on civilisation, he wishes he had a way of knowing whether his wife, Nadia, and their two daughters are still alive. More than anything, Jon wishes he hadn’t ignored Nadia’s last message.
Twenty people remain in Jon’s hotel. Far from the nearest city and walled in by towering trees, they wait, they survive.
Then one day, the body of a young girl is found. It’s clear she has been murdered. Which means that someone in the hotel is a killer.
by Novel Kicks Book Club: I Invited Her In by Adele Parks
HQ, Sept 2018
I am excited to be picking the first Novel Kicks book club for 2019 and it’s a great one (in my humble opinion.)
I have chosen ‘I Invited Her In’ by Adele Parks.
I am looking forward to discussing this book and I hope you join me in the comments below. You can take part from the comfort of your own armchair.
As usual, I have posted a question to kick things off.
About I Invited Her In:
‘I invited her in… and she took everything.’
When Mel hears from a long-lost friend in need of help, she doesn’t hesitate to invite her to stay. Mel and Abi were best friends back in the day, sharing the highs and lows of student life, until Mel’s unplanned pregnancy made her drop out of her studies.
Now, seventeen years later, Mel and Abi’s lives couldn’t be more different. Mel is happily married, having raised her son on her own before meeting her husband, Ben. Now they share gorgeous girls and have a chaotic but happy family home, with three children.
Abi, meanwhile, followed her lover to LA for a glamorous life of parties, celebrity and indulgence. Everything was perfect, until she discovered her partner had been cheating on her. Seventeen years wasted, and nothing to show for it. So what Abi needs now is a true friend to lean on, to share her grief over a glass of wine, and to have some time to heal. And what better place than Mel’s house, with her lovely kids, and supportive husband…
by Novel Kicks Book Club: Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
I can’t believe we’re on the last book club for 2018.
If course, it has to be a Christmas themed book.
As it’s December, I’ve chosen Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
For people who know your Christmas movies, this is the book Christmas With The Kranks is based on.
This is one of my favourite films and I have been meaning to read this for a while.
Anyone can take part in our book club and from the comfort of your sofa.
As normal, I’ve posted a question below to get things going.
About Skipping Christmas…
Imagine a year without Christmas.
No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they’ll skip the holiday altogether.
Theirs will be the only house on the street without a rooftop Frosty the snowman; they won’t be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they aren’t even going to have a tree. They won’t need one, because come December 25 they’re setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences – and isn’t half as easy as they’d imagined.
by Novel Kicks Book Club: After You by Jojo Moyes
Penguin, June 2016
Hello November.
For this month’s book club, I’ve chosen After You by Jojo Moyes.
This is the sequel to the fantastic Me Before You. Anyone can take part in our book club at any point in the month and you can discuss books from the comfort of your armchair so you don’t even have to go out in the horrible weather.
As usual, I have posted a question below to kick off the discussion.
About After You:
Lou Clark has lots of questions.
Like how it is she’s ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places.
Or why the flat she’s owned for a year still doesn’t feel like home.
Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago.
And will she ever get over the love of her life.
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