St. Louis has countless neighbors, bookstore customers, friends, retirement community residents and more who form book clubs simply for their love of reading. This week, T&S features a suggestion from the book club at Friendship Village Sunset Hills, which meets once a month. It began more than five years ago with a small group of residents, but now about 20 participate to discuss titles from a list supplied by the St. Louis County Library.
The members recommend The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin. In their words: “We appreciated the fact-based book because it fits into our preferred genre of historical fiction. It explores the life of the first woman to obtain a glider pilot’s license, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who was also a noted author and the wife of Charles Lindbergh. It concentrates on their life together, and how she stayed in the background taking care of the children while he pursued his interests. It explores their marriage and shows that there was more to Lindbergh than flying.”
Other favorites from the group:
» Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
» The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
» Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival by Jennifer Chiaverini
