LITWITS
TueSdAY, August 11
WELCOME TO THE JOY OF READING AND DISCUSSING BOOKS
Zoom will meet on Tuesday, August 11th, at 4:00 pm (Sue Fox will send out a link and a reminder the day before), and the in-person, potluck-dinner meeting will begin at 6:30 pm, at the home of Kathy de Jong in Dublin. Please come—we always have a wonderful time, and we would love to have you as part of our truly warm and welcoming group, whether on Zoom or in-person. An hour of stimulating book discussion—along with some laughs along the way-- is also promised.
Summer is hot and a little muggy, so find a pleasant and cozy place to read.
Adventures await!--If you can join us at Kathy’s house, be sure to let her know as soon as possible that you will be attending and what tasty summer appetizer, main dish, side or dessert you will be bringing.
For the August 11th meeting, please read Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore. This is a thriller on steroids—and a well-written book. When a strange and injured woman literally washes up on the wild shore of an almost deserted island close to Antarctica, the lone inhabitants are faced with a dilemma. Who is she? Why is she there? Is she friend or foe?—and what can be done to help preserve the precious and endangered seed bank that the endangered island holds?
If you wish to get ahead a bit in your reading, pick up Memorial Days, by Geraldine Brooks, which we will discuss in September.
"For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you, books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die." - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Read Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy
”A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” – Charles Baudelaire
2026 LitWits Book Selection List
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Month Book Hostess _________
February 10 The Correspondent Carolee Ruedi
by, Virginia Evans
March 10 Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Sue Fox
Greed and Lost Idealism
by, Sarah Wynn-Williams
April 14 The Brightwood Code
by, Monica Hesse
May 12 My Friends Kathleen MacDonald/Sue Ross
by, Frederik Backman
June 9 Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gaughin
by, Sue Prideaux
July 14 The Art Thief: A Story of Love, Crime and Beckie Holstrom\
Dangerous Obsession
by, Michael Finkel
August 11 Wild Dark Shore Kathy DeJong
by, Charlotte McConaghy
September 8 Memorial Days
by, Geraldine Brooks
October 13 Heartwood
by, Amity Gage
November 10 A Walk in the Park
by, Kevin Fedarko
December 8 Letters from Father Christmas
by, J.R.R. Tolkien
January 12 (2027) The Name of the Rose
by, Umberto Eco
