Take a moment and include your little ones if age appropriate to send a Valentine:

Lurie Children’s Hospital is collecting valentines for the children that will be in the hospital for Valentine’s Day. No cost – no commitment – and you create them online. Consider helping brighten Valentine’s Day for a child in the hospital. Send a specially designed card and personalized note of encouragement to a young patient at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Their goal is to hand deliver 15,000 cards to kids this Valentine’s Day!

Go to Luriechildrens.org and send a Valentine!

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David Grann’s new book is a meticulously researched conspiracy against the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma.  The narrative nonfiction account by David Grann, New Yorker writer and author of The Lost City of Z , employs Grann’s singular skill finding a story that, while not unknown, is not known enough, and to dig so deeply and precisely into the historical record that what you find not only amplifies and builds upon that record but arrives with a force of revelation.  You may find yourself wondering why you have never learned till now of the strange and terrible saga that came to be known as the Osage Reign of Terror.

FYI:  it is reported that Scorsese, DiCaprio and DeNiro are eyeing the true- crime $5,ooo,ooo book adaption to make the movie..  Storey Book Club will read the book and then plan an outing for dinner and a movie!

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We met Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete in Quebec.

His team is called to the scene of a suspicious death in the tiny hamlet of “Three Pines”, south of Montreal.

Was this mystery a tragic accident or something much more sinister?

We enjoyed the many characters and this cozy mystery.  We look forward to reading the subsequent stories of inspector Garmache!!!

The next Storey Book Club book will be Killers of the Flower Moon (and the beginning of the FBI) in March 2018.

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Meet Ove… he’s a curmudgeon.

We discovered he is a man of staunch principals, strict routines, a short fuze, and an on-going battle with the stupidity of the modern word.

We laughed, we cried, and we felt sympathy for all the curmudgeons in our lives.  After reading this book, we discovered a similar Swedish author and recommend reading:  The hundred year old man who climbed out the window and dis-appeared.

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The Crazy Rich Asians book series by Kevin proved to be eye-opening best-seller based on the author’s own childhood in Singapore.

The story is told from the perspective of five main characters.

We enjoyed the book and a film adaptation is starting to be filmed in April 2017.

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The author’s latest book fictionalizes Loretta Young’s life through her eyes and the invented character (her personal secretary).

The research for this book proved to provide a plausible day-to-day look into the actresses’ life as a staunch Catholic in Hollywood in the days of the Hays Code of 1930, which imposed strict moral rules.

We enjoyed the stories of famous actors David Niven and Clark Gable and others.  The author was a college alumni of one of our Story Book Club members!

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We enjoyed this very funny, feel-good novel narrated by a charming and socially challenged genetics professor on his quest to find out if he was capable of true love.

The Rosie Project is a moving and funny novel for all!

In search of love in the face of overwhelming challenges.

We decided to follow up this Storey Book Club with the sequel:  The Rosie Effect in October

See you then!!!

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