WWW of RI Women’s Book Club: The Cloisters

[CREDIT: Pixabay] The next Women’s Wilderness Weekend of RI Women’s book club in September will discuss ‘The Cloisters’ by Katy Hays.

The focus of our book selections for the WWW of RI Book Club centers on Women authors writing about women’s stories, connections, history, nature, and overcoming adversity.

Anyone in the WWW of RI community is welcome to participate regardless of your attendance at our weekend events.

WWW of RI Book Club Rules:

• • Please obtain a copy of the book, either by borrowing from the library, borrowing from someone you know, or purchasing. Read the book on your own during the month. Audio books are good too. We will meet in person to discuss the book.
  • Suggestions are highly welcome. At our last gathering, the group selected the next two books and other suggestions were discussed for future events. Please let us know what you are interested in.
  • Please read the book, or at least attempt to read it so you can contribute to the discussion.
  • Everyone reads at their own pace, and that is fine. If you finish the book in two days or only get half way through, anyone with interest in the book club can be included.
  • Any and all conversation is welcome at the book discussions but please be courteous and kind. You can disagree with someone, but always do it respectfully. 
  • You do not need to participate every month to be part of the book club. Read what interests you and attend when you can.

Now-September’s book

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

‘The Cloisters’ by Katy Hays is the subject of the September Women’s Wilderness Weekend of RI book club meeting.

When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group of enigmatic researchers studying the history of divination.

Desperate to escape her painful past, Ann is happy to indulge the researchers’ more outlandish theories about the history of fortune telling. But what begins as academic curiosity quickly turns into obsession when Ann discovers a hidden 15th-century deck of tarot cards that might hold the key to predicting the future. When the dangerous game of power, seduction, and ambition at The Cloisters turns deadly, Ann becomes locked in a race for answers as the line between the arcane and the modern blurs.

A haunting and magical blend of genres, The Cloisters is a gripping debut that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Discussion for this book will take place on Sept. 8 at 3 p.m. at our book club coordinator, Jessy’s, house.  Please reach out to Jessy at jessyjakul@gmail.com to be included.

Following our discussion of The Cloisters, we will be reading The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See as our next Book Club selection.