Book Group
Join us to discuss books in a small group setting. We meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month via Zoom. We check in at 10:45 AM, then start the discussion at 11:00 AM, which lasts for about an hour. We select the books as a group every August, choosing from all genres. The discussion is always stimulating, lively and respectful.
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Upcoming Books
June: My Friends by Fredrik Backman
July: No Book Group meeting
August: Book selection meeting
Recent Reads
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton
The Dry by Lynn Harper
Empress of the Nile by Lynne Olson
Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray
The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Calahan Henry
The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
Long Island by Colm Toibin
God of the Woods by Liz Moore
About The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans
"Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle… Isn't there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one's life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing, to someone?"
Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, The Correspondent is a gem of a novel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person. It is about the hubris of youth and the wisdom of old age, and the mistakes and acts of kindness that occur during a lifetime.
Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters--to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.
Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has--a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a very full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes that the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.