BookBrowse Highlights
Hello Readers!
This week, catch our video interview with Michelle Collins Anderson about her Prohibition-set novel The Moonshine Women, a recent BookBrowse Book Club pick—just scroll down to start watching!
Our online discussion of Chelsea Girls by Catherine Lloyd is going strong, as participants reminisce about Mary Quant, Butterick patterns, and the pop culture and fashion of the 1960s.
In Editor’s Choice, we feature Maggie O’Farrell’s evocative latest, Land, which takes readers back to the mapping of Ireland in the 19th century.
We also have books for members to request, a way to compete for a free T-shirt by inviting friends to BookBrowse, a chance for you and your book club to win copies of Ella Berman’s L.A. Women, and a new Wordplay!
Thanks for reading,
The BookBrowse Team
Interview with Michelle Collins Anderson
We recently talked to author Michelle Collins Anderson about her Prohibition-era novel The Moonshine Women, a recent BookBrowse Book Club pick.
Book Club Discussions
Discussions are open to all! If you’d like to participate, you can do so by creating an account here. Please note that discussions can contain spoilers.
Chelsea Girls by Catherine Lloyd
From the Jacket
A glamorous and revealing biographical novel for readers of Renee Rosen, Allison Pataki, and Fiona Davis, starring one of Swinging London's defining figures, Mary Quant, who made history with the miniskirt, slashed hemlines, and transformed more than fashion, for herself, for her friends, and for a generation.
From the Discussion
“I loved the book! The story moved along quickly and well and the characters are richly drawn and have wonderful interactions with each other…I would pass this book on to a friend in no time.” —Emily_P
“I absolutely loved reading Chelsea Girls!…I was an avid fan of Seventeen magazine and imagine that was why Mary Quant was a familiar name to me. Other references were so familiar too—Twiggy, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Butterick patterns and the JCPenney stores. Just a warm, engaging read for me!” —Shirl
See what people are saying in response to this question: What is your experience with homemade clothes? Have you ever sewn your own styles, or used a pattern (Butterick or some other brand)?
For Members
Members! This month's First Impressions and Book Club books are now available to request. Offer closes end of Saturday, July 4.
Books are provided free of charge to BookBrowse members resident in the US with the understanding that they'll do their best to either write a short review or take part in an online discussion forum (depending on whether the book is assigned for First Impressions or the Book Club). Our basic membership guarantees you at least four books a year when you request each month.
Free books are one of the many benefits of a BookBrowse membership. Join by this Saturday (for just $5.00 a month) to request and receive a book from this list. Don't wait!
Editor’s Choice
Land by Maggie O’Farrell
On a remote peninsula in 1865, Tomás and his son Liam are surveying the land, as a part of the British Ordnance Survey—an organized effort to map the whole of Ireland. The taciturn Tomás is a trained surveyor, having worked his way up from his entry-level position as a chainboy under the employ of British soldiers, or redcoats, who plucked him from a workhouse when he was a teenager. Ten-year-old Liam has grown up in the shadow of the famine, which ended not long before he was born, but for Tomás, and for the Irish landscape that he is mapping, the Great Hunger has changed everything, leaving behind a countryside filled with broken families and empty houses. … continued
Review by Rachel Hullett
Invite Your Friends to BookBrowse!
Share BookBrowse with other book lovers in your life!
BookBrowse members now have the option to invite other readers to sign up for a free limited membership on the readers you follow page. The top 10 members who get the most signups via their invite by end of day 7/5 will receive a free Booked for the Summer T-shirt. Not currently a BookBrowse member? Sign up here.
Coming soon: your book club will have the option to share your reading lists among members to surface recommended titles for your club!
Book Club Giveaway
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
From the Jacket
An electrifying novel about the complicated friendship between two ambitious and talented female writers in 1960s Los Angeles and the ultimate artistic betrayal: one writes a book based on the other's life… from the author of Reese's Book Club Pick Before We Were Innocent.
Praise
"Berman evokes Eve Babitz, Joan Didion, and the glamour of the 1960s California literary scene in this exciting tale." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"The interpersonal drama and vivid depictions of the era's social scene make for compelling reading…Berman's razor-sharp exploration of women's friendships and rivalries is likely to resonate with fans of Anna Quindlen, Elizabeth Berg, and Jodi Picoult." —Library Journal
About This Sweepstakes
Win up to 10 copies of L.A. Women by Ella Berman for yourself and your book club.
This offer is open to residents of the USA, except for BookBrowse members who are welcome to enter wherever they live. If a member not resident in the US wins, they receive an extension to their membership.
Wordplay
Solve our Wordplay puzzle to reveal a well-known expression, and be entered to win a one-year membership to BookBrowse!
"The C is A R"
Click for the answer to the last Wordplay (S the B), and a detailed breakdown of its meaning and history.
Want to play even more word games? Try our daily book trivia and see if you can get to the top of the leaderboard.
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