The Whiting Library Book Club holds our monthly discussions live on Zoom on the third Tuesday of each month. The book pick for May is The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. We will gather on Zoom on Tuesday, May 18th at 6pm to talk all about it.
“The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins’s fifth published novel, written in 1859. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of “sensation novels”. The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with protagonist Walter Hartright employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives.”
Wikipedia
“The novel famously begins with Walter Hartright’s eerie encounter with The Woman in White on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairley and her half-sister Marian Halcombe, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his friend Count Fosco. The ‘charming’ Count Fosco has a taste for vanilla bonbons, white mice and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the corridors of English country houses, The Woman in White is blend of Gothic horror and psychological thriller.”
Book review from The Literary Circle
Please feel free to join the group, all are welcome! If you need a copy to read, Whiting Library has copies ready to lend. Just give us a call or shoot us an email and we will put it out for Front Porch Pick Up when available.
If you have any questions or would like to get on the email list for the Book Club, please contact Deirdre at the library. You can email whitinglibrary1@gmail.com or call 875-2277.
The Zoom Meeting login information is here:
Topic: Whiting Library Book Club
Time: April 20 2021 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81900041488
Meeting ID: 819 0004 1488
One tap mobile
+19292056099,,81900041488# US (New York)
+13017158592,,81900041488# US (Washington D.C)
Dial by your location
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
Meeting ID: 819 0004 1488
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kBQqYbKCc