June and July 2014 Book Clubs "Traveling with Pomegranates" and "The Mill River Recluse"
The Madonna of the Pomegranates Hi Everyone, As the summer flies by into the dog days of August, I find myself running to catch up with it, and as usual, here I am once again playing catch up with writing our book club news. Our June and July reads are the topic of this letter: Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and The Mill River Recluse a first novel by Darcie Chan. In attendance at June’s outdoor meeting at the Field House in Cabot were Barb K., Becky, Cheryl, Ginnie, Jody, Lori, and myself. The response to our beloved author Sue Monk Kidd’s book Traveling with Pomegranates did not manifest as I had expected. Given that our club fully embraced three of Kidd’s later novels ( The Mermaid Chair , The Secret Life of Bees , and more recently, her brilliant work The Invention of Wings), it should have been safe to say that Traveling with Pomegranates would have been a winner. Wrong. It was one of the least liked books of the year! A memoir, T...