Book Club - Monday, March 2, 2026 at 7:00 pm
Our next book club meeting will be on Monday, March 2, 2026 at 7:00pm .
**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: The Briar Club by Kate Quinn.
From Goodreads:
A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.
Washington, D.C., 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; police officer’s daughter Nora, who is entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Bea, whose career has ended along with the women’s baseball league of WWII; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthy’s Red Scare.
Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. When a shocking act of violence tears apart the house, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: Who is the true enemy in their midst?
Capturing the paranoia of the McCarthy era and evoking the changing roles for women in postwar America, The Briar Club is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.
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 Monday, March 2, 2026.
Diane Straub
301-996-4879
Book Club members at our discussion of Good Night Irene on March 26, 2025.