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Written by Alanna Morley
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 Every month followers of Nuttermother's blog are invited to join the Nuttermother bookclub. There are no commitments, no social parties, just you, your book and the opportunity to talk about it with other followers on bookclub day.
*Please note: There are spoilers...sort of.
This review is from the NutterMother Book Club
So you know how there are some books you just can’t get into? What’s worse is when EVERYbody is telling you how good it is, and that you just need to read a few more pages and you’ll totally fall into it.
Well I couldn’t.
What’s worse is that the writing was in a huge font; it was simply written and it probably should only have taken me a couple days to breeze through. So against the advice a few great friends who were like “just dooo it,” I couldn’t.
I’m sorry.
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Written by Marcy Field
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Are we succeeding or failing at making our community as successful as it deserves to be? That is a question often discussed over coffee whether it is at the local coffee stops, library or kitchen table and is the topic that Doug Griffiths, third term MLA for Battle River-Wainwright, and Kelley Lemmer, award-winning journalist with the Wainwright Review address head on in their book, “13 Ways to Kill Your Community.”
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Written by Jill Crossland
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Two women share this book; the upper class Lady Duff Gordon, writer, traveller and intellectual, whose celebrated salons were attended by Tennyson, Thackeray and George Meredith. In 1862, at the age of 40, tuberculosis would force her to travel to Egypt, where it was hoped the hot, dry climate would speed her recovery. It is however her maid Sally Naldrett who is the central character, taking advantage of the freedom Egypt provides to make decisions which could never have been considered in the oppressive confines of Victorian England.
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Written by Jill Crossland
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 Once in a while I love to read a good mystery novel so Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James was the perfect choice for me.
The book got off to a good start, P.D. James wrote an Author's Note which was amusing and the prologue remind us who was who and where they would fit into the big picture as it related to this novel. I was relaxed and ready to enjoy what was to follow. The first few chapters had attention to detail, dialogue flowed and the storyline was moving well. Then the murder takes place and everything shifts. The book becomes stilted, dialogue is forced and worse she somehow takes the life out of the rich characters so by the end they are one dimensional and boring.
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Written by Jill Crossland
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What I read this summer .......
 David Nicholls’ One Day was the perfect summer read; an uncomplicated story line made it easy to pick up and put down as one goes about summer activities. There is also the fact that the one day in the title takes place on July 15 or as it is known in England, St Swithin’s Day.
The premise is reminiscent of the 1978 movie Same Time, Next Year with Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn. One Day’s two main characters are not however as well developed; the author takes the easy writing route of giving them no subtleties or nuances. Emma Morley goes from an unmotivated, slovenly young female to overnight chic success by the mere stroke of her own pen and Dexter Mayhew becomes all about lost opportunity and his own bodily fluids.
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