Chesterbrook area wine and books

Book - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Wine - a favorite wine (optional)
Location - Poseidon in Paoli

If you want, bring a favorite wine to share with the group.

Bill Gates called this book “one of the best novels” he’s read in a long time, which is quite the praise coming from someone who doesn’t read a lot of fiction.

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

He's a socially inept scientist who's tone deaf to irony. She's an edgy young woman whose fallback mode is sarcasm. Put them together, and hilarity ensues. It's an utterly winning screwball comedy about a brilliant, emotionally challenged geneticist who's determined to find a suitable wife with the help of a carefully designed questionnaire, and the patently unsuitable woman who keeps distracting him from his search.

Book - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Wine - N/A - restaurant has a full bar
Location - Will's + Bill's in Berwyn

This book is considered by many to have the most perfect of novelistic openings: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..."

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives - presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.

First published in 1938, this classic Gothic novel has never gone out of print. It won the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century.

It has been adapted numerous times for stage and screen, including the Alfred Hitchcock film Rebecca (1940) which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the 2020 remake directed by Ben Wheatley for Netflix.