April 2023
RCBC April 2023 Meeting Notes
Books Discussed (Click on the titles below to link to our Cardinal website.)
Homer’s Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
- A book so wonderful we have talked about it twice! Nonfiction
The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser
- Fiction; charming debut
The Kudzu Queen by Miriam Herman
- Fiction; based on historical facts & set in NC
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Speculative Fiction; prescient, futuristic novel written in 1990s
If You Survive by George Wilson
- Nonfiction, first-person account from WWII
Severed by Frances Larson
- Nonfiction; BEWARE whaahhahhhahaa!
The Moonshiner’s Daughter by Donna Everhart
- Fiction; based on historical facts & set in Wilkes County, NC
Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
- Graphic Novel
American born Chinese by Gene Yang
- Graphic Novel
The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
- Fiction; thriller
The Diary Keepers by Nina Siegal
- Nonfiction; based on a collection of Dutch diary entries written during WWII
Dutch Girl by Robert Matzen
- Biography of Audrey Hepburn’s life during WWII
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
- Fiction; horse racing is featured