{"id":5377,"date":"2024-03-27T21:29:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T20:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/?p=5377"},"modified":"2024-03-27T21:38:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T20:38:57","slug":"join-our-virtual-book-club-discussion-wednesday-24th-march-at-7-30pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/2024\/03\/27\/join-our-virtual-book-club-discussion-wednesday-24th-march-at-7-30pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Join Our Virtual Book Club Discussion &#8211; Wednesday 24th March at 7.30pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are a friendly group who discuss chosen books on the last Wednesday of the month. You are welcome even if you have not read the book<\/p>\n<p>For April 24 our two books will be New York by Edward Rutherford and The Walebone Theatre by joanna Quinn. Both reviews are taken from Goodreads<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5376\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5376\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/files\/2024\/03\/th.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5376 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/files\/2024\/03\/th.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/files\/2024\/03\/th.jpeg 284w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/files\/2024\/03\/th-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Rutherfurd celebrates America\u2019s greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga, weaving together tales of families rich and poor, native-born and immigrant\u2014a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates rise and fall and rise again with the city\u2019s fortunes. From this intimate perspective we see New York\u2019s humble beginnings as a tiny Indian fishing village, the arrival of Dutch and British merchants, the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the convulsions of the Civil War, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the 1990s, and the attack on the World Trade Center. A stirring mix of battle, romance, family struggles, and personal triumphs, New York: The Novel gloriously captures the search for freedom and opportunity at the heart of our nation\u2019s history<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5379\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/files\/2024\/03\/th-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5379 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/files\/2024\/03\/th-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/files\/2024\/03\/th-1.jpeg 284w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/files\/2024\/03\/th-1-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre in the gargantuan cavity of a beached whale into undercover operations during World War II\u2014a story of love, family, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation. One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, it belongs to the King, but twelve-year-old orphan Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household\u2014her sister, Flossie; her brother, Digby, long-awaited heir to Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitcat, kitchen maid; Taras, visiting artist\u2014build a theatre from the beast\u2019s skeletal rib cage. Within the Whalebone Theatre, Cristabel can escape her feckless stepparents and brisk governesses, and her imagination comes to life. As Cristabel grows into a headstrong young woman, World War II rears its head. She and Digby become British secret agents on separate missions in Nazi-occupied France\u2014a more dangerous kind of playacting, it turns out, and one that threatens to tear the family apart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a friendly group who discuss chosen books on the last Wednesday of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":5376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Join Our Virtual Book Club Discussion - Wednesday 24th March at 7.30pm | News | Blog | Events | SI Stourbridge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Stourbridge : Blog &amp; News : Join Our Virtual Book Club Discussion - Wednesday 24th March at 7.30pm : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Stourbridge . 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