What do you get when you place two writers who love to read next to each other at dinner? The answer, of course, is a book club. To be precise, an interactive Franklin Magazine book club!
Debuting this month is Bound Together. Christina Cochran, another writer for the magazine, and I discovered that we not only enjoy writing, but we are both avid readers as well.
Collaborating on this project, Christina and I hope you as readers become a part of our Bound Together club. Each month a new book will be highlighted with a brief description of the book, some information about the author, and any upcoming local events that pertain to the book and author. Christina and I will alternate writing and introducing books each month. Our plan is to introduce a wide range of genres and book styles to our readers.
As a reader, you join by simply reading that month’s selection and following along on Franklin Magazine’s Facebook page. The page will have posts asking for your review and ratings of the book. In the following month’s issue, we will reveal our book club’s overall rating of the book with some reader comments. Then, we will introduce the following month’s book!
January’s book of the month is Alice Feeney’s “Beautiful Ugly”, a psychological thriller. For those of you who read and loved Feeney’s “Daisy Darker” or “Rock Paper Scissors”, you might be like me and have big hopes for Feeney’s newest novel.
The novel begins when author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears the car brakes slam, hears her get out of the car, and then, nothing. He eventually finds her car on a cliff edge, lights on, door open, but no wife. She has disappeared. A year later, Grady finds himself still overcome by grief and desperate to know what happened to his wife.
He travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible – a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.
I hope you pick up a copy of the bestselling queen of twists Alice Feeney’s new novel. This is sure to be a thriller about marriage and revenge. We encourage you to find a copy at your local Johnson County Public Library or purchase a copy at Wild Geese Bookshop in Franklin.
Wild Geese Bookshop is hosting the author Alice Feeney as she introduces “Beautiful Ugly” on Thursday, January 16 at The Historic Artcraft Theatre. Tickets are $35 and include entry to the event and a signed hardcover copy of the book. Wild Geese anticipates this will be a sold-out event.
The “Beautiful Ugly” release date is January 14, 2025.
