Giffordtown Reading Group Update
- monique.business747
- Mar 19, 2020
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 7, 2020
Since face-to-face meetings have been put on hold, and Fife Libraries have suspended their services, members of the Giffordtown Book Group have decided to continue a reading program by email.
Instead of meeting in each others houses, members will take it in turn to review a book, post it by email to the rest of the group, than await responses. The person leading the discussion also has the privilege of choosing next month's book, to be down-loaded on Kindle, or ordered from Amazon.
'Meetings' will continue to take place on the first Thursday of every month; this month's book - the last for a while from Fife Libraries' Reading Group Service - is a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, "The Dry" by Jane Harper.
Look out for a summary of the group's views on this book - worthy of being a bestseller, or not? - which will appear on The Five Ways' Community website!
Monique
‘The Dry’ by Jane Harper.
Set in the drought-ridden landscape of a small town in Australia, this debut novel, a crime-thriller, proved popular with most readers of the Giffordtown Reading Group.
Aaron Falk returns to his hometown to attend the funeral of a childhood friend, Luke, who died violently, along with his wife and young son, in gruesome and unexplained circumstances. Gradually, Aaron, a Federal Agent, is reluctantly drawn into probing the death of the Hadler family, revealing long-held secrets and old animosities. All this is set against the tensions of a farming community struggling to make a living in harsh, arid conditions.
For those who like their murders bloody, this does not disappoint and there are sufficient plot twists,…