ROYAL Book Club Meeting: The Uninvited
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| Jul ’11 |
| 10 |
| 4:00 pm |
ROYAL = Readers of Young Adult Literature, our monthly gathering of adults reading YA books. No need to register or rsvp. Everyone over 18 welcome. Free. Book club selections always 20% off at Spellbound.
Sunday, July 10th at 4:00pm
The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones
Who is the uninvited? This twisty page-turner from a master of suspense plumbs the unsettling goings-on at a picture-perfect woodland cottage.
Mimi Shapiro had a disturbing freshman year at NYU, thanks to a foolish affair with a professor who still haunts her caller ID. So when her artist father, Marc, offers the use of his remote Canadian cottage, she’s glad to hop in her Mini Cooper and drive up north. The house is fairy-tale quaint, and the key is hidden right where her dad said it would be, so she’s shocked to find someone already living there — Jay, a young musician, who is equally startled to meet Mimi and immediately accuses her of leaving strange and threatening tokens inside: a dead bird, a snakeskin, a cricket sound track embedded in his latest composition. But Mimi has just arrived, so who is responsible? And more alarmingly, what does the intruder want? Part gripping thriller, part family drama, this fast-paced novel plays out in alternating viewpoints, in a pastoral setting that is evocative and eerie — a mysterious character in its own right.
Suggested for ages 14 and up.
Retail price: $8.99
Spellbound price: $7.19 (through July 10)
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Jul 06 2011
