Shelf Indulgence Book Club

About The Book  10:00 a.m. The principal of Opportunity, Alabama’s high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve. 10:02 a.m. The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class. 10:03 a.m. The auditorium doors won’t open. 10:05 a.m. Someone starts shooting. Told over the span of 54 harrowing minutes from four different perspectives, terror reigns as one student’s calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival. QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BOOK There are many different kinds of relationships in this novel: family, friendship, romantic. How do these relationships inform what is at stake for each of the main characters? Each character reacts differently to the shooting. Choose two characters and describe how they responded. Do you agree with the decisions they made? How might you have acted differently? THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS  is interspersed with texts, social media posts, and blog e...

Spoilers ahead - so don't read if you've not finished.  Can you elaborate more about your mother and your inspiration and why you reversed it and had the women create this hunting club? Do you think we’re more judgmental of unlikeable “mom’s” then unlikeable “dad’s”?   I wanted to upend the notion of a boy's club and give women the space to behave badly. And yes, we are SO much more judgemental of unlikeable mom's then dad's!! We want to know more about the relationship with Erin and Sophie. Did anything more happen with them in high school? She was so forgiving of canceled plans and such and then all of the sudden she was just done with her. Why wasn’t Erin in the group of the hunting wives? Any reason she was particularly excluded? Did she exclude herself or did they exclude her?     I feel like Erin just wasn't glamourous enough to be a part of the hunting wives. I mean that from Margot and co's perspective (I loved Erin myself and thought she was the san...

So during my browsing on Etsy I noticed a listing...Blind Date with a Book. A mystery book beautifully wrapped and decorated in craft paper. When I say these were beautiful...they were dressed up in old book pages, letters, book marks...some of them even included a sachet of tea or a crystal. Let me explain. You choose your book genre (or ask to be surprised) and the seller will send you the surprise book. They are usually gently used which makes me love them even more.  I get in the habit of always choosing a psychological thriller again and again. Why not have someone choose a book for me? I immediately ordered 5 books (naturally). The first beautifully wrapped book to arrive was a WWII historical fiction and happened to be an old library book. I had never heard of the author so I was happy to dive in!  The second arrival was a paranormal romance novel. I was thinking it would be a young adult book, perhaps about teen falling in love with a ghost. How cute would that be? I w...

We were so lucky today to have May Cobb  join us for our discussion of The Hunting Wives. We wanted to share the discussion with those that couldn't make it but may have loved the book as much as we did:  Play Video Enjoy!

We were so honored and excited to have May Cobb with us today for the discussion of The Hunting Wives.  The Hunting Wives share more than target practice, martinis, and bad behavior in this novel of obsession, seduction, and murder. Sophie O’Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect life with a beautiful home in an idyllic rural community. But Sophie soon realizes that life is now too quiet, and she’s feeling bored and restless. Then she meets Margot Banks, an alluring socialite who is part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives. Sophie finds herself completely drawn to Margot and swept into her mysterious world of late-night target practice and dangerous partying. As Sophie’s curiosity gives way to full-blown obsession, she slips farther away from the safety of her family and deeper into this nest of vipers. When th...