10:30 am - 12:30 pm
The book group meets the third Friday morning of each month from 10:30 to 12:30pm at Cathedral Village (except in July and August.) And September 2016- when we have changed to the 4th Friday. September 23. This year’s books and discussion leaders are listed below. For more information about the book, visit the Book Group page.
If you would like to lunch with the bunch, bring a brown bag. For any other information, please contact bookgroup@usguu.org.
Friday Book Group Selections September 2016-September 2017
September 23, 2016 (Note this is the 4th Friday, not the usual 3rd Friday.) Ian McEwan, The Children Act; Discussion leader: Nancy Anderson
October 21, 2016: T.C Boyle, The Road to Wellville, 476 pp; Discussion leader: Annette Boucher
November, 19, 2016: Colin Woodward, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, 387 pp; Discussion leader: Sarah West
December 16, 2016: J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elergy, 257 pp. Discussion Leaders: Frankie Jued, Jan Young
January 20, 2017::Penny Coleman, A Friendship that Changed the World, 279pp. Discussion leader: Jody Smith
February 17, 2017: Laura Moriarty, The Chaperon, 360pp; Discussion leader: Lucinda Lea
March 17, 2017: Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Sympathizer, 385 pp; Discussion leader: Nancy Anderson
April 21, 2017: Tracy Kidder, Mountains to Mountains, 310 pp: Discussion leader: Gini Ellis
May 19, 2017: Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (collection of short stories) 373 pp; Discussion leader: Jody Smith
June 16, 2017: Richard Merriman, Andrew Wyeth, A Secret Life; 437 pp: Discussion leader: Frankie Jued
September 15, 2017: Gail Buckley, The Black Calhouns; 353 pp; Discussion leader: Barbara Dowdall
Other Recommended Books- not selected for this year
M.L. Stedman, A Light Between the Oceans, 356p
T.C Boyle, The Women, 450 pp about Frank Lloyd Wright’s relationships with 4 women
Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchmen 278 pp
Cervantes, Don Quixote, 900 pp, translation by Edith Grossman 2010
Eric Larsen, Dead Wake 353 pp
Sally Gunning, The Widows War, 319 pp
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Cathedral Village
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