The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell, 2006 - Kappa Book Club. Young adult woman suddenly has to deal with great-aunt who nobody knew existed and is being released from a mental institution after over sixty years. Written from viewpoints of Esme, her sister Kitty and Iris, the granddaughter. Well-written and fascinating. Well received by group.
Audiobook - The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl, 2003 - An actual group of 19th-century Bostonians gathered to translate Dante's Inferno (including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell) find themselves on the trail of a serial killer who tortures his victims in ways that seem to be taken straight out of the pages of the Inferno. Dense book, easier to listen to than read, but interesting mystery and historical fiction.
Audiobook - The Knitting Circle - Ann Hood, 2007 - woman joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island as a way to fill the empty hours following the death of her only child. Each woman in the circle teaches her a new knitting technique and as they do, reveals to her their own personal stories of loss, love, and hope. Seemed unbelievable that each woman in group had so much trauma in her life, but satisfying overall.
Audiobook - Remember Me? - Sophie Kinsella, 2008 - a young woman wakes up in the hospital with amnesia for the last three years of her life and no memory for how she transformed herself from a down-on-her-luck underling with a loser boyfriend to a chic, powerful executive with a gorgeous husband. Predictable but entertaining.
Connections-distant mother in San Miquel de Allende, Mexico-What the Dead Know, The Knitting Circle
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