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Stephanie Rische

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May 11, 2017

Announcing the Online Book Club for July!

Thanks to everyone who participated in our discussion about The Road Back to You! If you missed it, it’s not too late to join our discussion about personalities, deadly sins, and the Enneagram.

Congratulations to Allyson, the lucky winner of a free book! (Allyson, I’ll contact you privately about getting the book to you.)

And now . . . announcing the next book club selection! Fiction is up this time, and since it’s summer, I thought a young adult title was in order (although, as a fair warning, it’s not necessarily a beach read).

We’ll be reading A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and discussing in July. Two fellow book lovers recommended the book to me, and I’m eager to hear what the buzz is about.

Here’s the publisher’s description of the book:

The monster showed up after midnight. As they do.

But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting. He’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming . . .

This monster is something different, though. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor.

It wants the truth.

We’ll be discussing the book in July—and remember, I’ll give away a free book to one lucky commenter! Hope you will join us!

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  1. Kristen Joy Wilks says

    May 11, 2017 at 3:08 pm

    Congratulations, Allyson! And this is non-fiction? Looks like a great cover though. I’ll have to order it from the library right away.

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    • Stephanie Rische says

      May 15, 2017 at 10:49 am

      Oops, it’s fiction! Thanks for noticing! Hmm…a nonfiction book about monsters…

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      • Kristen Joy Wilks says

        May 20, 2017 at 5:15 pm

        Ha, a non-fiction book about monsters does sound … overly exciting.

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  2. Allyson says

    May 17, 2017 at 9:36 am

    I got the book from the library! But, I had to get the books that Siobahn Dowd wrote. I am reading those first.

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