Rooms With Style Home Staging Minneapolis MN: READING IN THE RAIN, Our First Book of the year

ATTENTION ALL BOOK READERS, nows the time to get our fingers ready to turn pages, or fire up your Kindle or other on-line book reader. We've got a book or Two to start off the New Year!

 

 

First, if you like author Ann Patchett, (most know for her award winning book 'Bel Canto'), her newest book 'State Of Wonder' is getting rave reviews. I just started it and was immediately drawn in by her characters and story, so if you wish to read this, I'll be glad to blog and share comments on this story as well as our January selection.

And I'm not the only one saying this, here is a quote about it.

"Patchett’s latest novel really is something special and worth considering for all the literary prizes, festivals and reading groups going this year."

Our official Book for the month is 'The Paris Wife'. 

A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and and volatile group—the fabled “Lost Generation”—that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

 

Though deeply in love, the Hemingways are ill prepared for the hard-drinking and fast-living life of Jazz Age Paris, which hardly values traditional notions of family and monogamy. Surrounded by beautiful women and competing egos, Ernest struggles to find the voice that will earn him a place in history, pouring all the richness and intensity of his life with Hadley and their circle of friends into the novel that will become The Sun Also Rises. Hadley, meanwhile, strives to hold on to her sense of self as the demands of life with Ernest grow costly and her roles as wife, friend, and muse become more challenging. Despite their extraordinary bond, they eventually find themselves facing the ultimate crisis of their marriage—a deception that will lead to the unraveling of everything they’ve fought so hard for. 

A heartbreaking portrayal of love and torn loyalty, The Paris Wife is all the more poignant because we know that, in the end, Hemingway wrote that he would rather have died than fallen in love with anyone but Hadley.

 

NEXT MEETING FEBRUARY 15, I will host the book discussion for this book. Be ready to share your comments, and I'll provided the virtual snacks.

 

If your not already a member, please join us Reading in The Rain!