Book club was canceled for May due to too many members having conflicts. We will discuss May's book, Where Rivers Part by Kao Kalia Yang and June's book, Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt at the June meeting.
Next Meeting: Where Rivers Part by Kao Kalia Yang and Remarkably Bright Creatures by Slelby Van Pelt
Location: Linda's
Date: June 12, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm
Future meetings:
July 10, 2025 - TBA at Jo's
August 14, 2025 - TBA at Julie's
September 11, 2025 - The Women by Kristin Hanna at Nanc's
October 9, 2025 - TBA at Ellen's
November 13, 2025 - TBA at Christe's
December 2025 - Christmas gathering at TBA
January 8, 2026 - TBA at TBA
February 12, 2026 - TBA at TBA
March 12, 2026 - TBA at Judy's
April 9, 2026 - TBA at TBA
May 14, 2026 - TBA at Annie's
Potential books we are considering:
The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
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
July 2022 - Mink River by Brian Doyle
August 2022 - Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
September 2022 - The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
October 2022 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
November 2022 - If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name by Heather Lende
December 2022 - No Christmas gathering
January 2023 - No book / no meeting
February 2023 - No book / no meeting
March 2023 - The Beach House by Jane Green - Meeting canceled
April 2023 - No book / no meeting
May 2023 - No book / meeting to regroup
June 2023 - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
July 2023 - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
August 2023 - No meeting - too many conflicts
September 2023 - The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
October 2023 - A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka by Lev Golinkin
November 2023 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
December 2023 - No Christmas gathering
January 2024 - No meeting
February 2024 - No book / Library Oscar nominated film series
March 2024 - The River We Remember by William Kent Kruger
April 2024 - No meeting
May 2024 - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
June 2024 - Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
July 2024 - No meeting
August 2024 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
September 2024 - No specific book... discussed our favorites
October 2024 - The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
November 2024 - The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl
March 2025 - The One-In-A-Million Boy by Monica Wood
April 2025 - Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
May 2025 - Where Rivers Part by Kao Kalia Yang (postponed to June meeting)
