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Join other book lovers for adventures in reading and real life! LOVE TO READ AND TRY NEW ACTIVITIES?
Join this unique book club where we will casually discuss a book while engaging in an activity or exploring a location inspired by the book! This will be a no-pressure book club. If you don't finish the book or didn't like it, no problem. Please join us anyway for a meal and an event. We’d love to get to know you!
Newsletter/FB group: Meetup isn’t great at sending out notifications, so to stay up to date with the latest book and activity pairings, sign up for the newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/fc5e0725650d/thenoveltourist and join the community on our Facebook group: [https://www.facebook.com/share/z7aGScVNC95MEbi6/ ](https://www.facebook.com/share/z7aGScVNC95MEbi6/)
Audrey, the club founder also posts regularly on books and book pairings on Instagram via @thenoveltourist
This will be a great way to meet fellow book lovers who also want to live a well-read and well-rounded, adventurous life. Most of the activities will take place in and around Cecil and Harford Counties and surrounding areas. Sometimes we will branch out to further areas.
Are you ready for a new book and a new activity? Grab that book (or eBook) and let's go explore together!
Diane and Audrey
Upcoming events (4)
See all- BOOK CLUB CATCH UPUnwined on the Water, Elkton, MD
I know it seems like I’ve been AWOL with the book club due to the craziness of clearing out my parents home. However, I want to schedule a “Catch Up” to get us back on track now that things have settled down for me. No book for this one. Let’s just meet for lunch and drinks to talk about any books we’ve been reading and discuss any ideas for books and events going forward.
WHERE: Unwined on the Water
285 Plum Point Road
Elkton, MD
443.406,3947TIME: 12-2
We'll try to sit outside unless it's too hot.
I'm looking forward to getting back on track. Hope to see you there.
- EVENT: BOHEMIA MANOR FARM/READ: "THE MIDNIGHT FEAST" BY LUCY FOLEYChateau Bu-De Winery, Bohemia Manor Farm, Chesapeake City, MD
We'll be hanging out on the beach at Bohemia "Manor" Farm for lunch, wine and discussion of this month’s book pick.
Wear comfortable, summer clothes as we'll be outside.
WHERE: Bohemia Manor Farm/Augie's on the Boh
237 Bohemia Manor Farm Lane
Chesapeake City, MD
410.885.2500ABOUT the farm/winery
TIME: 12:00 to 2:00 PM
NOVEL: "The Midnight Feast" by Lucy Foley
FROM GOODREADS: It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; crystal pouches for guests’ healing have been placed in the Seaside Cottages and Woodland Hutches; the “Manor Mule” cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen.
But under the burning midsummer sun, darkness stirs. Old friends and enemies circulate among the guests. Just outside the Manor’s immaculately kept grounds, an ancient forest bristles with secrets. And the Sunday morning of opening weekend, the local police are called. Something’s not right with the guests. There’s been a fire. A body’s been discovered.
THE FOUNDER * THE HUSBAND * THE MYSTERY GUEST * THE KITCHEN HELP
It all began with a secret, fifteen years ago. Now the past has crashed the party. And it’ll end in murder at… The Midnight Feast.
Happy Reading
Diane
- July’s Member Choice Book! 📕 Winner! Online Discussion The Boxcar Librarian 🚂Link visible for attendees
July’s book!!! The clear winner was The Boxcar Librarian as the July member choice book for the theme “Transportation.” Woot woot!
Inspired by true events, a thrilling Depression-era novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books about a woman’s quest to uncover a mystery surrounding a local librarian and the Boxcar Library—a converted mining train that brought books to isolated rural towns in Montana.
Our online discussion will be the last Monday of July at 7 PM! The event with zoom link will be posted soon!
Stay tuned for the paired inperson adventure related to the book.
This is our online book club discussion night (always the last Monday of each month). Zoom link will be posted on the day of the event.
📚NOVEL: The Boxcar Librarian by Brianna Labuskes
Genre: Historical Fiction
Transportation: TrainWhen Works Progress Administration (WPA) editor Millie Lang finds herself on the wrong end of a potential political scandal, she’s shipped off to Montana to work on the state’s American Guide Series—travel books intended to put the nation’s destitute writers to work.
Millie arrives to an eclectic staff claiming their missed deadlines are due to sabotage, possibly from the state’s powerful Copper Kings who don’t want their long and bloody history with union organizers aired for the rest of the country to read. But Millie begins to suspect that the answer might instead lie with the town’s mysterious librarian, Alice Monroe.
More than a decade earlier, Alice Monroe created the Boxcar Library in order to deliver books to isolated mining towns where men longed for entertainment and connection. Alice thought she found the perfect librarian to staff the train car in Colette Durand, a miner’s daughter with a shotgun and too many secrets behind her eyes.
Now, no one in Missoula will tell Millie why both Alice and Colette went out on the inaugural journey of the Boxcar Library, but only Alice returned.
The three women’s stories dramatically converge in the search to uncover what someone is so desperately trying to hide: what happened to Colette Durand.
Happy Reading!
Diane and Audrey-------------------The below is silly babble just for the algorithm - no need for book club members to read this!-------------------------------
Reading books everywhere including in cecil county Maryland neighborhoods is such a fun way to make new friends and be social with book loving book club members who like to read and explore urban areas and try new activities such as hiking, reading, craft, hobbies, museums and more! It's especially fun for a book club to go on outdoor and indoor adventures with all the book club friends who like to explore and try new hobbies and discuss books and be always
