May Book Club

Hi Everyone,

March's book choice is: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hemdrix. We will be meeting at 2pm at the Tansley Woods branch of the Burlington Public Library.

Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the '90s about a women's book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a blood-sucking fiend.

Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia's life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their love for true-crime and suspenseful fiction. In these meetings, they're more likely to discuss the FBI's recent siege of Waco as much as the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood.

But when an artistic and sensitive stranger moves into the neighborhood, the book club's meetings turn into speculation about the newcomer. Patricia is initially attracted to him, but when some local children go missing, she starts to suspect the newcomer is involved. She begins her own investigation, assuming that he's a Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. What she uncovers is far more terrifying, and soon she--and her book club--are the only people standing between the monster they've invited into their homes and their unsuspecting community.

This month we will be meeting in the Program Room at the Tansley Woods branch of the Burlington Library, at 1996 Itsabashi Way, Burlington. The program room is inside the library. You can reach the library either by going through the community centre, or through its own separate entrance. Drinks and/or snacks are allowed in the room, please feel free to bring whatever you would like to have during the meeting.

Happy reading, and see you then!

Reminder: This event has limited capacity. If you RSVP yes and can no longer make it, please change your RSVP to no at least 24 hours before the event start time so that someone on the wait list can use your spot. failure to do so will result in a no-show. Members will be removed from the group after two no-shows.