Six Years Discussion

Phoebe filling in for Michaelene!

Book:  Six Years by Harlan Coben
Meeting Place:  Sherry's House, poolside
Ratings:
Melissa  3.75
Barbara  4
Kathy  3.5
Tracy  3.25
Joyce  3.25
Kim  3.25
Sherry  3.5
Average Rating:  3.5

Pool Hopper!

Discussion:  Six Years was definitely one of the "more enjoyable" books we've read in the last few months!  We admired Harlan Coben's writing, and appreciated the great deal of suspense throughout the book.  Our interesting conversation about the book kept leading us off on a tangent.  We had to keep getting back on track since we were drifting onto MANY personal TMI discussions!  This happened to create another book club rule...."What happens at book club, stays at book club"!  

We enjoyed a beautiful night, poolside, discussing the book.  Sherry's pug, Phoebe, provided us with entertainment for the evening.  There was this intruder, our feathered friend the duck, swimming in the pool and walking on the patio.  Phoebe felt violated by this creature and tried to scare it away.  Unfortunately, the duck felt no fear and just ran into the pool.  Eventually, he flew out and Phoebe got her way.  

I think we over welcomed our stay when Zoe, Sherry's other pug, decided to "kick us out" around 11:00 pm.  Haha!

Barbara, our BCDP Winner!

BCDP:  Sherry dove into the theme of the book and created a cd of songs from 2007 which was "6 Years ago"!  Also, a photo taken of 4 members of the group "6 Years ago"!  Barbara won!  She will be bringing home the knife and sharing a dessert with us next month! 

Recommendation:  With an average rating of 3.5, our book club would recommend this book.  Some of us have already started reading other books written by Harlan Coben.   If you are looking for a pleasant, suspenseful, easy read....check it out!

Side note:  Our book club meeting happened to fall on Roger's (Joyce's husband) birthday!  He received a singing telegram from the book club!  :)  Lucky him.....

July Book Selection - Sherry

Six Years by Harlan Coben

Below is a description of the book (taken from Amazon) we will be reading in July.  We will discuss this book on Wednesday, July 31st.

Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man.  Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor.  Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd.

But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself away from the funeral.  There he gets the glimpse of Todd's wife he's hoping for...but she is not Natalie.  Whoever the mourning widow is, she's been married to Todd for almost two decades, and with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life -- a time he has never gotten over -- is turned completely inside out.

As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel.  Mutual friends of the couple either can't be found, or don't remember Jake.  No one has seen Natalie in years.  Jake's search for the woman who broke his heart, who lied to him, soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on a carefully constructed fiction.

Harlan Coben once again delivers a shocking page-turner that deftly explores the power of past love, and the secrets and lies that such love can hide.