Prairie Wife Virtual Book Club: November 2024

Posted November 1, 2024 by Prairie Wife -

It’s time to announce our book for the Prairie Wife Virtual Book Club: November 2024

This monthly Virtual Book Club is all thanks to Wind City Books, an Indie Bookstore in Downtown Casper, Wyoming.

Miranda from Wind City Books can ship our book club book WHEREVER YOU LIVE, so please use the link provided below to purchase your Prairie Wife Book Club books. I strongly encourage buying your book from Wind City Books. You’ll be supporting a local Indie Bookstore, and they can quickly ship the book directly to your home. If you order now, you’ll receive it in plenty of time to finish it before book club.

If you’re feeling lucky, you can also enter the giveaway at the end of this post to WIN a copy of this month’s book. The winner will be chosen on November 8, so the book will have plenty of time to reach you before our Prairie Wife Virtual Book Chat!

So, how does The Prairie Wife Virtual Book Club Work?

It’s easy (I promise) and available to ANYONE who wants to join.

You don’t need social media because we’re doing it all with Zoom!

At our hour-long Virtual Book Club meeting, we will heavily discuss this month’s book using the questions given below the review as a guide.

HERE IS THE ZOOM LINK FOR THIS MONTHS VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB: Tuesday,  November 26, 2024, 7 PM MST

Don’t forget to enter our GIVEAWAY at the end when you’re done learning about our book choice for the month.

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner

 In November, we tend to do a biography or memoir, and I love all things British and have a particular passion for British Royalty. So, for those who know me well you won’t be surprised at all to learn about this month’s virtual book club pick!

Here’s what the publisher had to say about “Lady In Waiting” :

Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who controlled one of the largest estates in England, as a daughter she was deemed “the greatest disappointment” and unable to inherit. Since then she has needed all her resilience to survive court life with her sense of humor intact.

A unique witness to landmark moments in royal history, Maid of Honor at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, and a lady in waiting to Princess Margaret until her death in 2002, Anne’s life has encompassed extraordinary drama and tragedy. In Lady in Waiting, she will share many intimate royal stories from her time as Princess Margaret’s closest confidante as well as her own battle for survival: her broken-off first engagement on the basis of her “mad blood”; her 54-year marriage to the volatile, unfaithful Colin Tennant, Lord Glenconner, who left his fortune to a former servant; the death in adulthood of two of her sons; a third son she nursed back from a six-month coma following a horrific motorcycle accident. Through it all, Anne has carried on, traveling the world with the royal family, including visiting the White House, and developing the Caribbean island of Mustique as a safe harbor for the rich and famous-hosting Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Raquel Welch, and many other politicians, aristocrats, and celebrities.

With unprecedented insight into the royal family, Lady in Waiting is a witty, candid, dramatic, at times heart-breaking personal story capturing life in a golden cage for a woman with no inheritance.

PREP QUESTIONS FOR OUR VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB MEETING

• What do you think of the book’s title?
  • How does it relate to the book’s contents?
  • What other title might you choose?
• Which scene has stuck with you the most?
• What did you Google while reading the book?
• What do you think motivated the author to share her story?
• Do you think the author was honest?
• Are there any people in the book whose perspective you wanted?
• How did the memoir make you reflect on your own life?
• Is this book overrated or underrated?
• Are there lingering questions from the book you’re still thinking about?

To enter the GIVEAWAY all you HAVE to do is let us know in the comment section below why you want to read our November 2024 Book Club Pick “Lady in Waiting”

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Categories: Book Reviews, Reviews

Tags: , anne glenconner, biography, book club, british life, indie book store, lady in waiting, memoir, the crown, virtual book club, wind city books