Dee Kowalke

Feb. 3 - "The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry" - Bonnie's March 3 - "Being Mortal" - Jean's April 7 - "Euphoria" - Ruth's May 5 - "A Man Called Ove" - Sylvia's June 2 - "The Girl on the Train" - Dee's Ordered all five at Paper Birch this morning.

…and for once everyone had finished it, Dee included. Helen thought it sentimental. Connie cried describing the ending and had to stop. I think it is a beautifully made thing, a little too pleased with its own sentences. Gus is nine and has begun to take the stairs one at a time. Sunday calls: three for three.

Jan. 5 - "Our Souls at Night" - Sylvia's Feb. 2 - "H Is for Hawk" - mine March 1 - "My Brilliant Friend" - Jean's April 5 - "Between the World and Me" - Ruth's May 3 - "The Summer Before the War" - Bonnie's June 7 - "My Name Is Lucy Barton" - Dee's August 2 - "LaRose" - Lorraine's Sept. 6 - "The Little Paris Bookshop"…

…ther has moved to Texas. Jan. 3 - "The Underground Railroad" - Nan's Feb. 7 - "News of the World" - Connie's March 7 - "Hillbilly Elegy" - Lorraine's April 4 - "Homegoing" - Ruth's May 2 - "Evicted" - mine June 6 - "The Radium Girls" - Dee's, in the garden August 1 - "Anything Is Possible" - Marlene's Sept. 5 - "Kil…

Jan. 2 - "Pachinko" - Connie's Feb. 6 - "Manhattan Beach" - Marlene's March 6 - "Exit West" - Jean's April 3 - "The Great Alone" - Ruth's May 1 - "Less" - Sylvia's June 5 - "Circe" - Dee's August 7 - "Warlight" - Lorraine's Sept. 4 - "An American Marriage" - mine Oct. 2 - "Beartown" - Helen's Nov. 6 - "Educated" - Nan…

…reunig joined in April. Jan. 8 - "Where the Crawdads Sing" - Marlene's Feb. 5 - "Becoming" - Connie's March 5 - "The Overstory" - Lorraine's April 2 - "The Library Book" - Ruth's May 7 - "Unsheltered" - mine June 4 - "Normal People" - Dee's August 6 - "Say Nothing" - Nan's Sept. 3 - "City of Girls" - Ellie's Oct. 1…

Left on porches, in packages of six: Marlene - Connie - Lorraine and Hal - Harlan and Betty Nygaard - Pastor Kristin - Dee - Ruth - Helen - Inez Rude - LaVonne Thorson - the Fosdals

Jan. 5 - "The Midnight Library" Feb. 2 - "A Long Petal of the Sea" March 2 - "Piranesi" (four of us had no idea what happened and the other five would not say) April 6 - "The Four Winds" May 4 - "Klara and the Sun" June 1 - "Braiding Sweetgrass" - Dee's garden August 3 - "The Personal Librarian" - Nan's Sept. 7 - "Anx…

Jan. 4 - "The Sentence" - Ellie's Feb. 1 - "Oh William!" - Connie's March 1 - "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek" - Marlene's April 5 - "Small Things Like These" - Ruth's May 3 - "French Braid" - mine June 7 - "Sea of Tranquility" - Dee's August 2 - "Lessons in Chemistry" - Nan's Sept. 6 - "Horse" - Lorraine's (I wa…

…fter. Jan. 3 - "Demon Copperhead" - Marlene's Feb. 7 - "Foster" - Connie's (Lorraine's last meeting) March 7 - "Trust" - Ellie's April 4 - "The Marriage Portrait" - Nan's May 2 - "84, Charing Cross Road" - mine. Lorraine's favourite, ten days after she died. June 6 - "Hello Beautiful" - Dee's August 1 - "I Have Some…

Jan. 2 - "North Woods" - Margie's Feb. 6 - "The Berry Pickers" - Connie's (I was in Alabama) March 5 - "Absolution" - Marlene's April 2 - "The Women" - Ruth's May 7 - "James" - mine June 4 - "Table for Two" - Dee's August 6 - "Long Island" - Nan's Sept. 3 - "The God of the Woods" - Ellie's Oct. 1 - "Sandwich" - Helen'…

Feb. 4 - "Time of the Child" - Nan's. I shall be in Alabama. March 4 - "The Frozen River" - Connie's April 1 - "Three Days in June" - Ruth's May 6 - "Stone Yard Devotional" - MINE June 3 - "The Correspondent" - Dee's, in the garden The fall to be chosen in June. For May: the folding chairs back from church.

August 5 - "Wild Dark Shore" - Ellie's Sept. 2 - "Flashlight" - Margie's Oct. 7 - "Buckeye" - Helen's Nov. 4 - "Heart the Lover" - Nan's Dec. 2 - cookie exchange - MINE Two of those are not published yet. Naomi will order when she can.

…in the shop (464 pages) and moved that we read "So Far Gone" instead, which is 272. Carried, six to three. So: September 2, "So Far Gone," at Margie's. Naomi has changed the order.

Jan. 7 - "Orbital" - Marlene's Feb. 4 - "Time of the Child" - Nan's (I was in Alabama) March 4 - "The Frozen River" - Connie's April 1 - "Three Days in June" - Ruth's May 6 - "Stone Yard Devotional" - mine June 3 - "The Correspondent" - Dee's August 5 - "Wild Dark Shore" - Ellie's Sept. 2 - "So Far Gone" - Margie's Oc…

Jan. 6 - "What We Can Know" - Connie's Feb. 3 - "Flesh" - Marlene's (I was in Alabama) March 3 - "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" - Ellie's (670 pages) April 7 - "My Ántonia" - Ruth's (my suggestion) May 5 - "The Emperor of Gladness" - Margie's June 2 - "Raising Hare" - Dee's August 4 - "The Antidote" - Nan's Sept.…