The "Anything Goes" Book Club

I like to read, and I've decided that one of my goals for the new year is to read at least one book a month. Here's the great part: You get to join me!

I'm going to post my pick for a book at the beginning of the month, and my review of it at the end of the month. You are welcome to join in the fun by reading with me, or you can read my reviews and decide which books interest you. If you like, you can even suggest a book for my next reading adventure.

For January, my book of the month is

Rebecca 

by Daphne du Maurier

From Goodreads: Last Night I Dreamt I Went To Manderley Again. 

Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Her future looks bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Max de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamourous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding housekeeper, Mrs Danvers... 

Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity. 

From Barnes & Noble: "Last Night I Dreamt I Went To Manderley Again." So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past ther beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten...her suite of rooms never touched, her clothes ready to be worn, her servant -- the sinister Mrs. Danvers -- still loyal. And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca...for the secrets of Manderley.

This is one I've never read. A few of my friends gave it really high ratings on Goodreads:

Since I tend to lean on friends' recommendations for books, this seemed like a good pick to kick off the new year.

Rebecca earns an average rating of 4.16 stars on Goodreads, 4.3 stars on Amazon, and 4.5 stars on Barnes & Noble.

If you would like to read it with me, welcome to my book club. If you don't want to read with me, welcome to my book club! Anything goes around here. This is the no-pressure book club you have been searching for. If you do happen to read with me, feel free to let me know what you think of the book.

Happy Reading! (or not)