Beneath the Book Club: It’s time to vote on our March book and it’s going to be a tough choice.
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I’m not sure which book I want to read in March.
It’s not often I don’t have a favorite I hope my fellow Beneath the Book Clubbers will choose, but I am truly intrigued by all three of these books.
After reading a brief description of each of them, vote for your pick in our online poll on the Beneath the Book Club’s official page.
1. The Future Saints by Ashley Winstead
4.07 on Goodreads
WHAT GOODREADS SAYS: “Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones and the Six and In Five Years—a beautiful, powerful, and transportive new novel about a music executive desperately trying to bring a rock band back from the brink, from bestselling author Ashley Winstead.
“This is a love story, but not the one you’re expecting.
“When record executive Theo meets the Future Saints, they’re bombing at a dive bar in their hometown.
“Since the tragic death of their manager, the band has been in a downward spiral and Theo has been dispatched to coax a new—and successful—album out of them, or else let them go.
“Immediately, Theo is struck by Hannah, the group’s impetuous lead singer, who’s gone off script by debuting a whole new sound, replacing their California pop with gut-wrenching rock.
“When this new music goes viral, striking an unexpected chord with fans, Theo puts his career on the line to give the Saints one last shot at success with a new tour, new record, and new start.
“But Hannah’s grief has larger consequences for the group, and her increasingly destructive antics become a distraction as she and her sister Ginny—her lifelong partner in crime—undermine Theo at every turn.
“Hannah isn’t ready to move on or prepared for the fame she’s been chasing, and the weight of her problems jeopardize the band, her growing closeness with Theo, and, worst of all, her relationship with her sister—all while the world watches closely.
“The Future Saints’s big break is here—if only they can survive it."
2. The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark
4.1 on Goodreads, NYT bestseller
WHAT GOODREADS SAYS: “June, 1975.
“The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home.
“The only surviving sibling, Vincent, never shakes the whispers and accusations that he was the one who killed them.
"Decades later, the legend only grows as his career as a horror writer skyrockets.
“Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of Vincent Taylor.
“Now on the brink of financial ruin, she's offered a job to ghostwrite her father's last book. What she doesn't know, though, is that this project is another one of his lies.
“Because it's not another horror novel he wants her to write.
“After fifty years of silence, Vincent Taylor is finally ready to talk about what really happened that night in 1975.”
3. Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
4.1 on Goodreads
WHAT GOODREADS SAYS: “In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club.
“Shy, quiet, and bookish, she’s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor.
"A respectable job, Mary Jane’s mother says. In a respectable house.
“The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it’s a literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface, Impeachment: Now More Than Ever bumper stickers on the doors, cereal and takeout for dinner.
“And even more troublesome (were Mary Jane’s mother to know, which she does not): the doctor is a psychiatrist who has cleared his summer for one important job—helping a famous rock star dry out.
“A week after Mary Jane starts, the rock star and his movie star wife move in for a summer that promises unforgettable rock and roll fiction.
“Over the course of the summer, Mary Jane introduces her new household to crisply ironed clothes and a family dinner schedule, and has a front-row seat to a liberal world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll (not to mention group therapy).
“Caught between the lifestyle she’s always known and the future she’s only just realized is possible, Mary Jane will arrive at September with a new idea about what she wants out of life, and what kind of person she’s going to be.”
So, Beneath the Book Clubbers, which one do you want to read?
