The Tuesday Morning Book Club at Cole Library will be meeting May 19 from 9:30 – 11 a.m. The group meets in Room 108, which is the large meeting room on the First Floor of the Library.

All are welcome to attend the Book Club. You can email Sherene Player at [email protected] if you have any questions.

At the May Meeting, the group will be reading and discussing the book The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick. Glenda Davis Driggs will review the book and lead the discussion.

From the Goodreads website comes this summary of the book: “Four dissatisfied sixties-era housewives form a book club turned sisterhood that will hold fast amid the turmoil of a rapidly changing world and alter the course of each of their lives.

“By early 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan, Viv Buschetti, and Bitsy Cobb, suburban housewives in a brand-new ‘planned community’ in Northern Virginia, appear to have it all. The fact that ‘all’ doesn’t feel like enough leaves them feeling confused and guilty, certain the fault must lie with them.

“Things begin to change when they form a book club with Charlotte Gustafson–the eccentric and artsy new neighbor from Manhattan–and read Betty Friedan’s just-released book, The Feminine Mystique.

“Controversial and groundbreaking, the book struck a chord with an entire generation of women, helping them realize that they weren’t alone in their dissatisfactions, or their longings, lifting their eyes to new horizons of possibility and achievement.

“Margaret, Charlotte, Bitsy, and Viv are among them. But is it really the book that alters the lives of these four very different women? Or is it the bond of sisterhood that helps them find courage to confront the past, navigate turmoil in a rapidly changing world, and see themselves in a new and limitless light?”