All three of the Holmes Public Library book clubs will come together in
one big group on Tuesday, August 18, at 6 p.m. to share a pot luck
supper and talk about The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz, a fun summer read. Hope you can make it!
Online Holmes Public Library Mystery Readers Book Club. Can't make face-to-face meetings because you're busy or on the other side of the world? Chime in anytime through the comments! Discussion is open to all readers of the monthly selection. Inappropriate comments will be removed by moderator.
Monday, July 20, 2015
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Holmes Mystery Readers Book Club on Vacation
The Holmes Mystery Readers will not meet in July and August. We hope you will all come for the Combined Book Club Potluck on Tuesday, August 18, at 6 p.m. when all the library book clubs will come together to share some delicious food and discuss The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz.
About The Spellman Files
Isabel Spellman, the uncompromising—okay, obstinate— twenty-eight year-old San Francisco private eye in Lisa Lutz's riotous debut novel, THE SPELLMAN FILES has her share of problems. And those problems all happen to be named Spellman. Her parents, Albert and Olivia, co-owners of Spellman Investigations, think nothing of placing their daughter under 24-hour surveillance simply to find out if she has a new boyfriend. David, her perfect older brother, who escaped the family business by becoming a lawyer, is hypercritical of just about everything Isabel says, wears, or does. Fourteen-year-old sister Rae lives on sugared snacks, considers recreation surveillance her favorite hobby, and believes that life is one endless opportunity for intra-familial blackmail. And good-natured Uncle Ray, a former cop and health food nut, now embraces gambling and drinking; and when he's not in battle with his niece Rae over the whereabouts of his favorite shirt, must be rescued from "lost weekends."Welcome to Izzy Spellman's off-kilter world. Equal parts Sam Spade and Bridget Jones, she's a damn good investigator—if only her dysfunctional family would back off and let her do her thing. Izzy's cynical—okay, wise—enough to realize that a primrose-covered cottage with a white picket fence is not in her future. That's okay with her. Ever the jaded P.I., she catalogs her ex-boyfriends with calculated brevity, reducing her romantic misjudgments to curt summaries of name, age, occupation, hobbies, duration, and last words. No sooner has she met a new man that she begins composing his exit profile.
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