Book Club
The Trinity Book Club meets on the last Wednesday* of the month at 10:45 am. Everyone is welcome. Even if you haven’t read the current book but would like to learn about it, come join us. April/May Book Club meeting will meet May 8th at 10:45am. The April/May selection is “Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt.
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We try to read a wide variety of interesting books, educational, stimulating, humorous, artistic, historical and contemporary.
These are the book(s) we have lined up for the coming months:
“The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride
This past year our reading has included:
“The Maid” by Nita Prose (Mar. ’24)
“The Mitford Affair” by Marie Benedict (Feb. ’24)
“Trust” by Hernan Diaz (Jan. ’24)
“The Secret Life of Sunflowers” by Marta Molnar (Nov. ’23)
“Afterlife” by Julia Alvarez (Oct. ’23)
“Lady Tan’s Circle of Women” by Lisa See (Sept. ’23)
“I’ll Be Seeing You” by Mary Higgins Clark (Jul./Aug. ’23)
“Someone” by Alice McDermott (June ’23)
“Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson (May ’23)
“The Awakening of Miss Prim” by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera (Apr. ’23)
“The Personal Librarian” by Marie Benedice (Mar. ’23)
“Our Missing Hearts” by Celeste Ng (Feb. ’23)
“Book of Lost Names” by Kristin Harmel (Jan. ’23)
Past book selections:
“Horse” by Geraldine Brooks (Nov ’22)
“The Naked Don’t Fear the Water” by Matthew Aikins (Oct ’22)
“The Alice Network” by Kate Quinn (Sep ’22)
“The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver (Aug ’22)
“The Island of Sea Women” by Lisa See (Jul ’22)
“Happiness is a Choice You Make” by John Leland (Jun ’22)
“Christmas by the Book” by Anne Marie Ryan (May ’22)
“Change of Heart” by Jodi Picoult (Apr. ’22)
“The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post: A Novel” by Allison Pataki (Mar. ’22)
“Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand” by Helen Simonson (Feb. ’22)
“Beneath a Scarlet Sky” by Mark Sullivan (Jan. ’22)
“The Book Woman of Troubled Creek” by Kim Michele Richarson (Nov. ’21)
“Brooklyn” by Colm Toibin (Oct. ’21)
“The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah (Sept. ’21)
“A Soldier of the Great War” by Mark Helprin (August ’21)
“We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy’s Courage and a Mother’s Love” by Jim Wooten (July ’21)
“I Wish He’d Taught Me How to Shave” by Dave Landers (June ’21)
“The Signature of All Things” by Elizabeth Gilbert (May ’21)
“The Lions of Fifth Avenue” by Fiona Davis (April ’21)
“Tightrope” by Nicholas Kristof (March ’21)
“Same Kind of Different as Me” by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
“Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir” by Peter Balakian
“The Other Einstein” by Marie Benedict
“Giants in the Earth” by O.E. Rolvaag
“The Road to Character” by David Brooks
“The Sympathizer” by Viet Thanh Nguyen
“The Unstoppable Ruth Bader Ginsberg: American Icon” by Antonia Felix
“Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owen
“Becoming” by Michelle Obama
“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho
“The Overstory” by Richard Powers
“Unsheltered: A Novel” by Barbara Kingsolver
“The Only Woman in the Room” by Marie Benedict
“The Orphan Keeper” by Camron Wright”American Gothic” by Gene Smith
“Killers of the Flower Moon” by David Grann
“A Man Called Ove” by Fredrik Backman
“All the Rivers” by Dorit Rabinyan
“Wonder” by R.J. Palacio
“Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
“A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles
“Pompeii” by Robert Harris.“Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women” by Geraldine Brooks
“Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill” by Mary Beth Pfeiffer
These and other equally fascinating books made this past year one of lively discussions among the members of the book club. Come for one session or come for all, we’ll be happy to have you.