We had a small group today because of the weather but that gave us time to discuss for great books at length. Natalie told  us about Kristin Hannah’s Magic Hour, an unputdownable novel by one of her favourite authors. Leslie inhaled Wally Lamb’s The River is Waiting, a novel recommended at an earlier gathering by Marsha. A heartbreaking and transformational story. Norah has embarked  on the worthy goal of reading Sue Grafton’s novels from the beginning, and so got A and B via inter-library  loan. She read excerpts to us to give us the flavour of how this series began. Very interesting! Marsha just finished Philip Pullman’s La Belle Savage, book one of his The Book of Dust trilogy and she thoroughly enjoyed being plunged into the origin story of Lyra and being immersed in the brave selflessness of Malcolm and Alice and their treacherous journey on La  Belle Savage. Even for those who don’t like fantasy, Pullman makes his worlds so real that you can’t help but love the stories.