Helen Brandt

friend of Margaret

Contact born Feb 11, 1950 · 76 on Oct 5, 2026

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2011

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Hawkstone Readers, February, at Lorraine's. "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" (Hel…

…en Simonson). Liked by all eight of us who came. Next: March 1 at my house, "Cutting for Stone." 541 pages. April 5 at Ruth's, "Olive Kitteridge."

Note · mentions “Helen”, not linked the same words also name Helen Voss

2015

Book club met here on the 6th for "All the Light We Cannot See." Eleven chairs,…

…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.

Journal · mentions “Helen”, not linked the same words also name Helen Voss

2016

Hawkstone Readers, 2016, entered after the cookie exchange at Marlene's.

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"…

Note · mentions “Helen”, not linked the same words also name Helen Voss

2017

Hawkstone Readers, 2017. We were eleven until August and are ten now: Bonnie Sa…

…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…

Note · mentions “Helen”, not linked the same words also name Helen Voss

2018

Hawkstone Readers, 2018.

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…

Note · mentions “Helen”, not linked the same words also name Helen Voss

The star in the windshield ran, as predicted, clear across to the driver's side…

…in the first hard frost, and a man came on the 1st and replaced the whole thing in our driveway out of the back of a van, in an hour, whistling. The insurance paid all but a hundred dollars. The club did "Educated" in November, at Nan's. Most of us believed every word; Helen believed about half; I believed the mount…

Journal · mentions “Helen”, not linked the same words also name Helen Voss

2019

Hawkstone Readers, 2019. Sylvia Ihlenfeld moved to Minneapolis in June; Ellie B…

…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…

Note · mentions “Helen”, not linked the same words also name Helen Voss

2020

No lutefisk dinner this year. Lefse made at home yesterday instead: six dozen.

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

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2021

Hawkstone Readers, 2021. By video until June.

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…

Note · mentions “Helen”, not linked the same words also name Helen Voss

2022

Hawkstone Readers, 2022.

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…

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2023

The book club has a new member as of this month, Margie Fitzsimmons. She sat do…

…wn in Lorraine's chair at Ruth's, looked round, and said, "I think I've taken somebody's place." Helen said yes, and that she was welcome to it. Eleven new windows at the cabin as of Friday, every one but the kitchen's. The old ones were 1958, single glass with a storm, and rattled in a west wind. These do not rattl…

Journal · mentions “Helen”, not linked the same words also name Helen Voss

Hawkstone Readers, 2023. Eight of us from April to September, nine before and a…

…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…

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2024

Hawkstone Readers, 2024. Nine of us.

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'…

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2025

Hawkstone Readers, the fall list, as settled last night in Dee's garden.

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.

Note · mentions “Helen”, not linked the same words also name Helen Vosstrap

Hawkstone Readers, 2025, as actually read. Nine of us.

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…

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2026

Book club at Helen's, 7:00

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Hawkstone Readers, 2026 so far.

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.…

Note · mentions “Helen”, not linked the same words also name Helen Voss

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Facts

First name	Helen
Last name	Brandt
Date of birth	1950-02-11
Comments	Book club. Hosts in October.

Phones

- number: '6085550197'
  variant: Mobile

Emails

- email: helen.brandt@badgermail.example
  variant: Personal

People

Peg Ostrander
Helen Brandt is friend of Peg Ostrander

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q020 What have I got coming up for the rest of this month?

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1977-08-20	Peg Haugen and Ray Ostrander marry in La Crosse. Ray bought the engagement ring that May.
2017-06-09	Peg retires after 31 years as librarian at Tamarack Hill Elementary.

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