This month The Reading Den has been inspired by the new autumn schedules and the opportunity to re-ignite our book club meet ups as we return from our summer breaks, hopefully re-energised and ready for bright reading ideas! Here are our recommendations for September:

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Our Book of the Moment, 'The Things We Never Say' is a wonderful new short novel by the best-selling author, Elizabeth Strout. This beautifully crafted story, long-listed for this year's Booker Prize, about an unassuming and much loved history teacher in coastal Massachusetts who is battling secrets and events that rock his world. Our Missed Opportunity, 'The Catcher in the Rye' is a coming-of-age classroom classic by the American author J.D Salinger. Published in 1951, this novel is an elegy to teenage alienation told to us through the eyes of Holden Caulfield who has just been expelled from yet another school. Our Wild Card is 'Culpability' by Bruce Holsinger - recommended not only by 'Oprah's Book Club' but our own fantastic book club friends. This gripping novel is a modern family drama, that tackles the consequences of Al - forcing us all to consider the imperfect future in our brave new worlds!

 

If you have your own Bright Ideas to share, after your own summer time reading please send them to the Den. We look forward to adding to our reading list for 26/27!

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Welcome Back!

 

Anne & Jenny 

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