[MD-Sligo] Sligo Creek Book Club: upcoming dates!

[Jeff Baer]

Our slate of virtual book club meetings, including the newly selected January date, are:
Saturday, December 9@ 1:30pm (Reminder - We are not having the usual Sligo Creek Chapter meeting that day, so try the book club instead! Just reply back to me to RSVP if you are not already a regular book club attendee and would like to join us). The book we will discuss on Dec. 9 is " I am Malala" (details are below, and there is even a shorter version of the book you can easily read in a few days!)

Our January book club will be meeting on Sunday, January 21 @ 2:30pm. The book is "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers" (book details are also below).
Thank you and best holiday wishes - Jeff Baer
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 book details section:
 December book: "I am Malala". There are two versions of the book with near identical names, both available on BARD! While the two versions are similar, there are some important differences. It will be fine for our purposes if you read either version, so you can choose the version best suited to you. Good Reads description excerpt for both versions:
"When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education... When she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize."
Version 1 (the original version, contains more details on Malala's parents’ anguish and uncertainty, and more details on the geopolitical setting and the backstories of Malala's parents. BARD # DB77454
Title: "I am Malala, the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban". By: Malala Yousafzai with co-author: Christina Lamb
Duration = approximately 10 hours.
Version 2 ( The "Young Readers Edition") Jeff unknowingly listened to this version! It's still great. BARD # DB 79878
Title: "I am Malala, how one girl stood up for education and changed the world". By: Malala Yousafzai with co-author: Patricia McCormick,
Duration = approximately 5 hours.
Our January book club selection: "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers"
Author: Jesse Q. Sutanto
Duration: 10 hours 44 minutes
DB# 113039 (also available via Amazon's Audible subscription service)
Good Reads description:
"Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective?
Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on the internet (AKA checking up on her son to see if he’s dating anybody yet).
But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, it’s going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things. Knowing she’ll do a better job than the police possibly could – because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands – Vera decides it’s down to her to catch the killer.
Nobody spills the tea like this amateur sleuth."
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