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I hate when I hate the book I pick for book club.
I picked The Chaperone because it seemed like both a good summer read and a good source of conversation for book club.
Can I have a do over?
The Chaperone is another one of those “let’s-take-a-real-person-and-throw-her-into-a-fictional-story” novels that seem to be all the rage these days. Frankly, I miss the days when authors would base fictional characters off of real people so as not to be limited by actual events.
That’s doubly so in The Chaperon ...more
I picked The Chaperone because it seemed like both a good summer read and a good source of conversation for book club.
Can I have a do over?
The Chaperone is another one of those “let’s-take-a-real-person-and-throw-her-into-a-fictional-story” novels that seem to be all the rage these days. Frankly, I miss the days when authors would base fictional characters off of real people so as not to be limited by actual events.
That’s doubly so in The Chaperon ...more
It is the summer of 1922 when Cora Carlisle agrees to chaperone fellow Wichita resident Louise Brooks to NYC for six weeks. The pair set out with their own goals for the trip. Louise yearns to become a famous dancer with the troupe from the Denishawn dance school she will be attending, she is a real person and did in fact become well known and famous. Cora's wish is to learn what she can about her childhood spent as an orphan in NYC-- where she came from, and maybe learn the identities of her pa
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