Our next book club meeting will be on Monday, January 12, 2026 on ZOOM.
Zoom link will be sent a couple of days before the meeting. Keep your eye on your email.
At our last book club meeting, we decided that to avoid canceling due to inclement weather, we would just plan to make January's book club a Zoom event.
Eat your snacks and drink your favorite beverage while discussing our next book, suggested by Sarah Carroll along with our youngest book club member, baby Evelyn!
**Our recently established routine is that if your book suggestion has been selected you will be responsible for coming up with a few discussion started questions. Not to worry, this is not a difficult task (Google is very helpful 
).
Our next book will be -
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan.
From Goodreads:
The New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven expose of the real Kennedy Curse - the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem - and the women who have paid the price for our Obsession with Camelot.
The Kennedy name has long been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and—above all else—integrity. But this carefully constructed veneer hides a dark truth: the pattern of Kennedy men physically and psychologically abusing women and girls, leaving a trail of ruin and death in each generation’s wake. Through decades of scandal after scandal—from sexual assaults to reputational slander, suicides to manslaughter—the family and their defenders have kept the Kennedy brand intact.
Now, in Ask Not, bestselling author and journalist Maureen Callahan reveals the Kennedys’ hidden history of violence and exploitation, laying bare their unrepentant sexism and rampant depravity while also restoring these women and girls to their rightful place at the center of the dynasty’s story: from Jacqueline Onassis and Marilyn Monroe to Carolyn Bessette, Martha Moxley, Mary Jo Kopechne, Rosemary Kennedy, and many others whose names aren’t nearly as well known but should be.
Drawing on years of explosive reportage and written in electric prose, Ask Not is a long-overdue reckoning with this fabled family and a consequential part of American history that is still very much with us. At long last Callahan redirects the spotlight to the women in the Kennedys’ orbit, paying homage to those who freed themselves and giving voice to those who, through no fault of their own, could not.
We will meet on ZOOM on Monday, January 12, 2026 at 7:00 pm.
If you have questions you could email Diane at: straub.diane@yahoo.com
Text or email with any questions or comments.
Hope to see you on-line on Monday, January 12, 2026.
Diane Straub
301-996-4879
Book Club members at our discussion of Good Night Irene on March 26, 2025.
