
Laurentian Book Club
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The Laurentian Book Club connects through a private forum where all participants can discuss the current book and network with each other. Joining is completely free, you just have to get a copy of the book to enjoy. Don't forget to checkout your local library for a copy of each book! The Book Club will read one book every two months so that you'll have plenty of time for each book.
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Current Book:
March - May 2025
The Bird Hotel by Joyce Maynard
Book Synopsis:
Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard.
After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful but decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona at the base of a volcano.
The Bird Hotel tells the story of this young American who, after suffering tragedy, restores and runs La Llorona. Along the way we meet a rich assortment of characters who live in the village or come to stay at the hotel. With a mystery at its center and filled with warmth, drama, romance, humor, pop culture, and a little magic realism, The Bird Hotel has all the hallmarks of a Joyce Maynard novel that have made her a a leading voice of her generation
The Bird Hotel is a big, sweeping story spanning four decades, offering lyricism as well as whimsy. While the world New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard brings to life on the page is rendered from her imagination, it’s one informed by the more than twenty years of which she has spent a significant amount of her time in a small Mayan indigenous village in Guatemala.
(Synopsis Source: goodreads.com)
Next Book:
TBD
Questions?
Please contact our book club moderator, Jared, jared@pbc.guru and he will be happy to help!
The Books So Far...

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
April 29, 2019 - June 30, 2019

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
June 27, 2019 - August 15, 2019

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
August 29, 2019 - October 10, 2019

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
October 17, 2019 - December 5, 2019

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
January 6 - March 5, 2020

A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
March 19 - May 14, 2020

Choose Your Own Adventure: Summer 2020 - Read and discuss one, two or all three book options simultaneously!
May 28 - July 30, 202
- Contemporary Fiction - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- Historical Non-Fiction - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
- Personal Development - The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
August 6 - October 8, 2020

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
October 15 - December 17, 2020

Talking to Strangers by Malcomb Gladwell
January 7 - March 11, 2021

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
March 18 - May 20, 2021

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper
May 27th - July 29th

The Leavers: A Novel by Lisa Ko
August 5 - October 4, 2021

The Book of Longing by Sue Monk Kid
October 14 - December 29, 2021

Artcurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History by Jennifer Dasal
January 6 - March 10, 2022

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton
March 18 to May 13, 2022

Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond
May 27 - July 22, 2022

Great Circle: A Novel by Maggie Shipstead
August 5 - September 30, 2022

Honor: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar
October 14 - December 9, 2022

The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
January 6 to February 24, 2023

Trust by Hernan Diaz
March 17 - May 17, 2023

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston
May 26 - July 28, 2023

This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
August 4 - September 30, 2023

This Tender Land: A Novel by William Kent Krueger
October 13 - December 1, 2023

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
January 5 - February 23, 2024

American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by David Baron
March 15 - May 3, 2024

We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship by Will Schwalbe
May 24 - July 12, 2024

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
August 2 - September 20, 2024

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
October 11 - November 29, 2024

Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian by Amy Attas
January 3 - February 21, 2025