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March brings new reads for Mystery, Fiction Book clubs
By Deon Stonehouse
On Sunday, March 8, clocks
will spring forward, bringing
longer days to spend more time
outdoors.
Sunriver Books will switch
to its spring hours. Visit from
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily in The
Village at Sunriver.
Fiction and Mystery Book
clubs meet on Mondays,
in-person at 4:30 p.m. and via
Zoom at 6 p.m.
Book Clubs are a great way to
meet other readers and have fun
discussing interesting books.
Register to attend a discussion by emailing sunriver
books@sunriverbooks.com
Mystery Book Club
The Mystery Book Club will
discuss “Death at the Sign of
the Rook” by Kate Atkinson,
the latest in the Jackson Brodie series. The meetings are at
6 p.m. Monday, March 2 via
Zoom and 4:30 p.m. Monday,
March 9 at the bookstore.
Jackson Brodie is a great
character, a guy who means
well but can go a bit off the
rails.
For instance, intent on settling down in Yorkshire and
buying a house, he instead puts
the money into a Land Rover.
After all, you can’t drive a
house. Gotta love Brodie!
Time has passed since Brodie
left the police force to become
a private investigator.
He is a grandfather now, but
still clueless about women.
Brodie’s new clients are elderly twins whose mother recently
died and, shortly thereafter,
both her housekeeper and a
valuable painting went missing.
They want the painting back.
It is entirely possible they are
not being completely forthright
with him.
Events at Sunriver
Books
Mystery Book Club
The book club will meet
to discuss "Death at the
Sign of the Rook" by Kate
Atkinson at 6 p.m. Monday,
March 2 via Zoom or 4:30
p.m. Monday, March 9 at the
bookstore.
Fiction Book Club
The book club will meet to
discuss "There are Rivers
in the Sky" by Elif Shafak
at 6 p.m. Monday, March
23 via Zoom and 4:30 p.m.
Monday, March 30 at the
bookstore.
RSVP for author
Phil Margolin's visit
Phil Margolin will present
his latest legal thriller
"False Witness" at 5 p.m.
Saturday, April 11. Register
at sunriverbooks.com or call
541-593-2525.
Brodie is not too thrilled with
the twins, but he needs to make
a living, so he takes the case.
His investigation leads him
to Burton Makepeace, a grand
old home that has fallen on
hard times.
The house is being used for
a variety of money-making
projects such as hosting Murder
Mystery weekends. This book
is great fun to read.
Fiction Book Club
The Fiction Book Club will
discuss “There are Rivers in the
Sky” by Elif Shafak at 6 p.m.
Monday, March 23 via Zoom
and at 4:30 p.m. Monday,
March 30 at the bookstore.
Water is necessary for life.
Shafak is such a clever, inventive author. She manages to
blend the story of water with
the inhumanity marginalized
'Death at the Sign of the Rook' and 'There are Rivers in the Sky'
are March's book club selections.
groups suffer.
How is this possible? Read
“There are Rivers in the Sky”
and discover its magic.
The story begins in olden
times when a drop of water falls
on the head of King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, a learned
but cruel man with an extensive
library containing the Epic of
Gilgamesh, a real poem written
on clay tablets that includes the
story of the “Great Flood.”
The king’s inhumane practices have fallen heavily on the
Yazidi people.
In 1840, that same raindrop
lands as snow on the tongue
of a newborn baby, Arthur,
birthed in the muck along the
River Thames.
He is born into grinding
poverty, but with the gift of an
amazing memory and quick
intelligence.
His unique abilities will lift
him from the mire, granting
him employment in publishing
where he reads a book that fuels
an interest in Mesopotamia.
In 2014, Narin, a Yazidi
child living in Turkey along the
Tigris, is going deaf.
Her grandmother and father
plan to take her to Iraq for baptism in Lalish, a site sacred to
their people. Iraq in those years
is not a safe place.
In 2018, Zaleekah, a professor of hydrology, is contemplat-
ing suicide.
She leaves her husband and
moves into a houseboat on the
River Thames that she rents
from a rather wise, young tattoo artist. Zaleekah has never
come to terms with being orphaned as a little girl.
She feels tremendous gratitude to her wealthy uncle for
raising her with his daughter.
Rivers, water, literature, art,
political unrest, and bigotry are
woven throughout the story.
Shafak brilliantly brings all
these threads together with
grace in a meaningful way.
The story is populated with
fascinating characters.
Author to visit in April
Phil Margolin will present
his latest legal thriller, “False
Witness” at 5 p.m. Saturday,
April 11.
Register to attend by emailing sunriverbooks@sunriverbooks.com. More details
available at sunriverbooks.com
Call 541-593-2525 or visit
www.sunriverbooks.com for
more information.
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