Book Club at Resurrection Lutheran Church
Do you love reading books? Do you love reading books with a group of people? Are you looking for people to discuss literature with? Many love to read books, but it can be hard to find someone to discuss the book with after you’re done reading it. If you are interested in meeting other people to discuss the books you read, you should consider joining the book club at Resurrection. Here you will find great opportunities to meet new people and make new friends.
Membership
Membership is open to all who love reading books and making time to share their understanding with others. The book club at Resurrection Lutheran Church consists of a number of great minds who read and talk about books based on a topic or an agreed-upon reading list. We choose a specific book to read and discuss each month. The club is focused on reading books that enrich the hearts and lives of its members.
If you feel like being part of a book club with an atmosphere of love and mutual influence is something of interest to you, please join us. You can contact Ruth Wolter at 618-433-1469 for information as to how to become a member.
Meeting Time and Venue
Our next meeting will be March 12th at 6:30 pm at Church.
Past Books
Janet Broche will be the discussion leader at our March 12th meeting. Her book choice is Buckeye by Patrick Ryan. The book is available through the library on a hold basis.
Summary: In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal's wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those they've lost. Margaret's husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harm's way--until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened. Later, as the country reconstructs in the postwar boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie--but nothing stays buried forever in a small town.
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Elyse Tillman will be the discussion leader for our April 9th meeting. Her book choice is All the Beauty in the World: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Brinkley. You will not be reading a story, don't have to fret over an ending, just be looking at fantastic, beautiful objects, paintings, etc., that are in the Metropolitan Museum that many of us will never see in person. So, Elyse is taking us on a tour by bookto view many pages of interesting objects and articles. Our local library does not have the book available but will obtain copies from other libraries. You know the routine, get your name on the hold list at the Alton Library.
Summary: A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.
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