At our March 26th meeting, we discussed Beartown by Fredrik Backman. The book club has read two other of Bachman's novels including A Man Called Ove and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry. For Beartown, most readers felt the book had a slow start but overall was extremely well written. Many of us thought it would be about hockey, but it's not. If you like well defined characters, books about topical issues, or community dynamics, this book will not disappoint. The second book in the series, Us Against You, will be coming out in June 2018. For refreshments, we had cookies and cupcakes from Frosted Bakery.
Our next book group meeting will be Monday, April 30th at 3pm at the LME Library meeting room. Copies of the book, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, are available at the front desk. Discussion sheets can be picked up or are available online. This is a non-fiction book based on the true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed to more than twenty-four, the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization's first major homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled the case. In desperation, the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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