St. John's Laurys Book Club
Reading books for enjoyment, perspective and discussion
Meets the First Thursday of each month at 6:30pm in Room #106
Please use the West Entry Doors
Contact Brenda Frantz or Karen-Berry Frantz for more information.
| April 7 Meeting The Push by Ashley Audrain |
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| A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family–and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for–and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter–she doesn’t behave like most children do. Or is it all in Blythe’s head? Her husband, Fox, says she’s imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well. Then their son Sam is born–and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she’d always imagined with her child. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth. The Push is a tour de force you will read in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed.
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ASHLEY AUDRAIN previously worked as the publicity director of Penguin Books Canada. Prior to Penguin, she worked in public relations. She is a graduate of the Media, Information & Technoculture program at Western University. She lives in Toronto, where she and her partner are raising their two young children. The Push is her first novel. |
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Past Readings |
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| June 2022 | In Five Years by Rebecca Serle |
| May 2022 | Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes |
| April 2022 | The Push by Ashley Audrain |
| March 2022 | The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly Mustian |
| February 2022 | The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom |
| The Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski | |
| October 2021 | When the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah |
| September 2021 | An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski |
| August 2021 | The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave |
| July 2021 | Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey |
| No Meetings Due to COVID-19 Closure | |
| May 2020 | Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano |
| April/May 2020 | Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline |
| March 2020 | When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal |
| February 2020 | The Orhpans Tale by Pam Jenoff |
| January 2020 | What Was Mine by Helen Kleinroth |
| December 2019 | Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva |
| November 2019 | The Code Girls by Liza Mundy |
| October 2019 | The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris |
| September 2019 | What the Wind Knows by Amy Hanson |
| August 2019 | Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult |
| July 2019 | Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens |
| June 2019 | Educated by Tara Westover |
| May 2019 | Defending Jacob by William Landay |
| April 2019 | The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine |
| March 2019 | The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah |
| February 2019 | The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni |
| January 2019 | Animal Farm / 1984 by George Orwell |
| December 2018 | The Christmas Train by David Baldacci |
| November 2018 | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Translation by Aylmer & Louise Maude |
| October 2018 | Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly |
| September 2018 | The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown |
| August 2018 | The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware |
| July 2018 | Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult |
| June 2018 | The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead |
| May 2018 | Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman |
| April 2018 | My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt |
| March 2018 | Redemption Road by John Hart |
| February 2018 | No Exit by Taylor Adams |
| January 2018 | Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate |
| December 2017 | The Divine Romance by Gene Edwards |
| November 2017 | Magic Hour by Kristen Hannah |
| October 2017 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck |
| September 2017 | The Silent Wife by Kerry Fisher |
| August 2017 | Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard |
| July 2017 | The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeanette Walls |
| June 2017 | Marrow: A Love Story by Elizabeth Lesser |
| May 2017 | The Red Tent by Anita Diamant |
| April 2017 | The Lake House by Kate Morton |
| March 2017 | The Thirteenth Tale by Dianne Setterfield |
| February 2017 | The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins |
| January 2017 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith |
| December 2016 | Skipping Christmas by John Grisham |
| November 2016 | My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman |
| October 2016 | Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese |
| September 2016 | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford |
| August 2016 | Me Before You by Jojo Moyes |
| July 2016 | The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah |
| June 2016 | The Fault In Our Stars by John Green |
| May 2016 | The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd |
| April 2016 | Forgiven by Terri Roberts and Jeanette Windle |
| March 2016 | The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher |
| February 2016 | Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee |
| January 2016 | The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult |
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