Book Club

St. Paul’s Book Club is not meeting at this time because of Covid-19.  Information will be posted when meetings will be resumed.   

St. Paul’s Book Club has been meeting since January 1998 and is for members and friends of St. Paul’s who are interested in reading books and would enjoy joining in group discussions.  The Book Club meets around noon on the third Wednesday of each month after Bible Study with the exception of December and over the summer.    The more we have the better the discussion. 

Members of the Book Club suggest a selection for the next month.  Selections include: old and new, religious books, secular books, a classic now and then,  a wide range of topics.  Amazingly, often the selections tie in perfectly with topics being discussed at Bible Study. There are so many good books written about worthwhile topics!

Books we have discussed:   Not Our Kind by Kitty Zeldis, The Salt Path by Raynor Winn; Educated, by Tara Westover; Beneath A Scarlet Sky, by Mark T. Sullivan

September 2018-May 2019 we discussed The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott,  The Land of Permanent Goodbyes, by Atia Abawi, Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. and Saints for all Occasions by Courtney Sullivan.

Other books we have read are:  The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd, Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan, and Gaining Ground by Forrest Pritchard which was selected by the library system as book of the year for 2016, Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, and Miller’s Valley by Anna Quindlen, The Truth According to Us, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Anne Barrows.  Most recently:  Breath Becomes Air, by Palanithi, Great Small Things by Jodi Picoult, Gift from the Sea by Ann Morrow Lindberg, The Nazi Officer’s Wife by Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin,  The Orphan Keeper by Cameron Wright, Digging to America by Anne Tyler, and Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, and David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.