Category: Books Past

Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda Fiction suggested by Verna Info

Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Hochschild Non-Fiction suggested by Terry Berkeley Sociologist studying political conservatives in Louisiana bayou country tries to explain why they vote against what liberals think is in their best interest.

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Fiction suggested by Verna Ove is the quintessential angry old man next door. An isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, who spends his days enforcing block association rules that only he cares about, and visiting his wife’s grave, Ove has given up on life. Enter […]

Our meeting this month was canceled due to a family emergency.

Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein Non-Fiction suggested by Terry Got my highest rating; seems to be essential information to understand the world today. The new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage. the ways in which porn and all its sexual myths have seeped into young people’s lives, […]

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman Non-Fiction suggested by Janet Since “A Distant Mirror” is such a long book, we’ll divide it up. Everyone is going to read the first three chapters and the last chapter. Then each person chooses three middle chapters to read and “report on” to the group. […]

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Fiction suggested by Barbara from Amazon: Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two […]

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith Fiction suggested by Janet Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city’s Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects), a wintry outdoor scene haunts […]

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister Non-Fiction suggested by Barbara from Amazon: In 2009, the award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started All the Single Ladies—a book she thought would be a work of contemporary journalism—about the twenty-first century phenomenon of the American single woman. It was […]

Love & Treasure by Ayelet Waldman Fiction suggested by Lisa This is a wonderful story that goes back and forth between several time periods and places (Maine 2013; Salzburg 1945-46; Budapest and Israel 2013, and Budapest 1913). The characters are real and the plot is compelling. The story is woven around the true history of […]