Welcome Our Newest Members
Seven Oaks Book Club
John & Anna Agee, Justo & Elvie Flores, Shelly Guess & Joey Johnson, Brendan & Anna Herlihy, Martin & Eloiza Mayorga, Katie & Daniel McCall
The Seven Oaks Book Club meets each month to discuss books on a reading list which is selected by mutual consent of the Book Club members. All members of SOCC are invited to attend. Our selection for March… The Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914,
Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barn- storming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unex - pected and dangerous patron in a wealt- hy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles.
A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two women's fates--and their hunger for self-determina- tion in vastly different geographies and times--collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap for- ward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead. Our next meeting is Wednesday, March 22nd at 11am Please email Cynthia Bailey at cbailey664@gmail.com to receive information on joining the meeting.
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