More book club picks

Howdy folks.  Yes, yes I know... you've had to wait for yet another update.  Summer has officially begun so I have a lot of blogging to catch up on.  So grab a comfy seat, your refreshing summer beverage and let the reading begin.

For the month of April our book club chose A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick.  Nothing less than a good read involving mystery, a love story and a little suspense.  The story of a desperate man, Ralph Truitt, in search of something he thinks he is looking for yet, when he finally finds it in a mystery woman, Catherine Land, responding to his want ad, his world is taken down a very unexpected path.  
In a nutshell this book is a tale of love, hate, buried secrets, forbidden desires, and a plot with many avenues that twist and turn through pages of riveting characters with many past lives to divulge, as threads of child abuse, murder, lust and greed.

For the month of May, we chose The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeanette Walls.  I have to say I really enjoyed this book.  The story is told by Jeanette, herself, and the life she lived with her family.  Throughout the book we learn about the Walls family and their very unorthodox way of living... or shall I say surviving.  Here is an exert from the Editorial Review on amazon.com


From the publisher: The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.