Meeting: June 9, 2022

Annie hosted our June meeting where we discussed Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island by Will Harlan. The weather was perfect for our outdoor meeing, although some were pestered by gnats and some mosquitoes.  Annie, Ellen, Jo, Linda, Liz, and Nanc were in attendance.

Water view from Annie's

I loved the book. Carol is an amazing woman. Her enduring devotion to conservation on her island is noble and commendable. How interesting to learn of the various impacts made by politicians and wealthy families. The battles will continue, thank goodness for people like Carol.

I absolutely love the touching story about the armadillo who was killed on the road and the  burial by its mate. There is so much we aren't aware of within the lives of our fellow creatures.  

And the part about cities being zoos for humans. Yup.

~ Christe Gillepsie

Next Meeting: Mink River by Brian Doyle

Location: Jo's (possibly Nanc's) 

Date:  Thursday, July 14, 2022
Time: 6:30

Future meetings:

August 11, 2022 - TBA at Julie's

September 8, 2022 - TBA at Nanc's

October 13, 2022 - TBA at Ellen's

November 10, 2022 - TBA at Christe's

December 2022 - Gathering with spouses TBA

January 12, 2023 - TBA

February 2023 - Attend Library Oscar Nominated Film Series???

March 9, 2023 - TBA at Judy's

April 13, 2023 - TBA at TBA

May 11, 2023 - TBA at Annie's

June 8, 2023 - TBA at Linda's

Other books we are considering:

The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis 

The Color of Water by James McBride

Fire Season by Philip Connors

Books we've read so far:

January 2014 - Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott

February 2014 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

March 2014 - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

April 2014 - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie

May 2014 - The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

June 2014 - Breaking Free by Marilyn Sewell

July 2014 - The Orphan Train by Kristina Baker Kline

August 2014 - The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

September 2014 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

October 2014 - The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

November 2014 - The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

December 2014 - No book.  Holiday gathering.

January 2015 - No book.  Watched The Book Thief

February 2015 - The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

March 2015 - Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

April 2015 - The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin

May 2015 - The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

June 2015 - The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

July 2015 - Still Alice by Lisa Genova

August 2015 - The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

September 2015 - Ruby by Cynthia Bond

October 2015 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

November 2015 - No book.  Watched To Kill a Mockingbird

December 2015 - No book.  Holiday gathering.

January 2016 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

February 2016 - Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson 

March 2016 - Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

April 2016 - Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie

May 2016 - Jewelweed by David Rhodes

June 2016 - One Woman's River by Ellen Kolbo McDonah

July 2016 - Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

August 2016 - Deep Water Passage by Ann Linnea

September 2016 - This Road I Ride by Juliana Buhring

October 2016 - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

November 2016 - No book.  Watched The Boys of '36

December 2016 - No book.  Holiday gathering.

January 2017 - About Grace by Anthony Doerr

February 2017 - Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates

March 2017 - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

April 2017 - No book - meeting canceled

May 2017 - Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

June 2017 - The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier also watched The Girl with a Pearl Earring

July 13, 2017 - Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins

August 2017 - No book - meeting canceled

September 2017 - A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

October 2017 - Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

November 2017 - The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich

December 2017 - No book. Holiday gathering.

January 2018 - To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey

February 2018 - Wonder by RJ Palacio

March 2018 - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

April 2018 - My Grandmother Told Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman

May 2018 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman

June 2018 - The Marriage of Opposites by Fredrik Backman

July 2018 - The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony

August 2018 - No book - meeting canceled

September 2018 - In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides

October 2018 - My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

November 2018 - A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline

December 2018 - No book - Holiday gathering

January 2019 - The Boy Who Knew Too Much by Cathy Byrd

February 2019 - Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

March 2019 - And Every Morning the Way Home gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman

April 2019 - No book.  Meeting canceled due to a snow/ice.

May 2019 - The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel

June 2019 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

July 2019 - The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

August 2019 - Educated by Tara Westover

September 2019 - Heartland by Sarah Smarsh

October 2019 - Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

November 2019 - America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray

December 2019 - No book - Holiday gathering

January 2020 - The River by Peter Heller

February 2020 - No book.  Attended Library Oscar Nominated Film Series.

March 2020 - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

April 2020 - Finding Gobi by Dion Leonard

May 2020 - A People's History the United States by Howard Zinn

June 2020 - No meeting - COVID-19 delay

July 2020 - Rising out of Hatred by Eli Saslow

August 2020 - The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

September 2020 - This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

October 2020 - The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Henriette Roosenburg

November 2020 - March 2021 - No meetings due to COVID-19

April 2021 - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

May 2021 - Becoming by MIchelle Obama

June 2021 - All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

July 2021 - One of Ours by Willa Cather

August 2021 - Spiders & Snakes & Rats - Oh My! by Scott Lee

September 2021 - The Exiles by Christina Bake Kline

October 2021 - The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey

November 2021 - The Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

December 2021 - No gathering with spouses - COVID-19

January 2022 - No meeting - COVID-19

February 2022 - No meeting - COVID-19

March 2022 - Soft Rain by Cornelia Cornelissen

April 2022 - The Good Lord Bird by James McBride

May 2022 - Untamed was pushed forward to June.

June 2022 - Untamed by Will Harlan