About us
Welcome to the Harrisburg Book Club. If you enjoy reading and discussing good books and getting to know interesting new people, this club is for you! We meet on the third Tuesday of each month to discuss a book with new found friends. The meetings are held in the evening at a local area restaurant or at a member's home. We usually read modern fiction but we also consider reading non-fiction books depending on our members' interests. We try to choose a variety of books and everyone is welcome to make suggestions and vote on the books we read.
Anyone is welcome to join - more members lead to better discussions and more friends! Please feel free to come to the next meeting even if you haven't read the book. We look forward to discussing interesting books and eating great food with as many people as possible.
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Weyward by Emilia Hart
Rookie's Craft Burger Bar, 2238 Derry St, Harrisburg, PA, USWeyward by Emilia Hart
Amazon Link:
https://www.amazon.com/Weyward-Novel-Emilia-Hart/dp/1250842727/Goodreads Link:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127280850-weywardShop Online:
https://www.bigwords.com/details/book/weyward/9781250280800/buyBookSynopsis:
"A brave and original debut, Weyward is a spellbinding story about what may transpire when the natural world collides with a legacy of witchcraft." ––Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The London Séance Society
I am a Weyward, and wild inside.
1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd. When Altha was a girl, her mother taught her their magic, a kind not rooted in spell casting but in a deep knowledge of the natural world. But unusual women have always been deemed dangerous, and as the evidence of witchcraft is laid out against Altha, she knows it will take all her powers to maintain her freedom.
1942: As World War II rages, Violet is trapped in her family's grand, crumbling estate. Straitjacketed by societal convention, she longs for the robust education her brother receives––and for her mother, long deceased, who was rumored to have gone mad before her death. The only traces Violet has of her are a locket bearing the initial W and the word weyward scratched into the baseboard of her bedroom.
2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great-aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she suspects that her great-aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century.
Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an astonishing debut, and an enthralling novel of female resilience.
About the Author:
https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/emilia-hart
https://www.lapl.org/news-stories/articles/interview-author-emilia-hart
7 attendees
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Rookie's Craft Burger Bar, 2238 Derry St, Harrisburg, PA, USMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Amazon Link:
https://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Dalloway-Virginia-Woolf/dp/0156628708/Goodreads Link:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/14942.Mrs_DallowaySynopsis:
The authorized, original edition of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece and one of the most "moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century" (Michael Cunningham), with a foreword by Maureen Howard.In this vivid portrait of a single day in a woman’s life, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of preparation for a party while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house in post-WWI London for friends and neighbors, she is flooded with remembrances of the past - the passionate loves of her carefree youth, her practical choice of husband, and the approach and retreat of war. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.
From the introspective Clarissa to the lover who never fully recovered from her rejection, to a war-ravaged stranger in the park, the characters and scope of Mrs. Dalloway - a landmark of psychological fiction - reshape our sense of ordinary life and reshaped English literature as we know it.
“Perhaps her masterpiece…Exquisite and superbly constructed…Required like most writers to choose between the surface and the depths as the basis of her operations, she chooses the surface and then burrows in as far as she can.” – E. M. ForsterAbout the Author:
https://virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk/resources/virginia-woolf-a-short-biography/2 attendees
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