St. John’s Book Club

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Our annual organizational meeting was held in September to choose the books to read and discuss for the coming year. Because there may be ongoing construction this year, be sure to check “The Chimes” for book selections as well as meeting location changes

On Tuesday, October 20 at 7:00pm, we will meet to discuss our next selection, “Lucy by the Sea”, by Elizabeth Strout. The location will be at St. John’s in the Education Building. Strout is a Pulitzer prize winning author, and this novel takes us back to pandemic when a divorced couple is forced to endure the together in a small cottage on the coast of Maine.

“Heartwarming as well as somber . . . Although simple on the surface, Strout’s [new] novel manages, like her others, to encompass love and friendship, joy and anxiety, grief and grievances, loneliness and shame—and a troubling sense of growing unrest and division in America. . . . Strout’s understanding of the human condition is capacious.”—NPR

Some of our future book selections are:

I See You’ve Called in Dead , by John Kenney

H is for Hawk, by Helen MacDonald

The Caretaker, by Ron Rash

Elsewhere, by Richard Russo

Theo of Golden, by Allen Levi

The Road to Tenderhearts, by Annie Hartnett

Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood

For more information contact:

Cindy Honeycutt cindychoney@gmail.com

Martha Murtiashaw murtiashawm@bellsouth.net

Cathy Plowden ceplowden59@gmail.com

We’d love to have you!