Not only do we exchange ideas during our discussion times - we are a resource to each other
for book recommendations.
Here are some suggestions from our membership:
- One Cup at a Time: Why a Gaggle of Geezers Gather every Monday Morning to Solve the World's Problems: A Memoir by Clarkston Local Authors - 2016 -Very interesting!
- Enlightenment for Idiots: A Novel by Anne Cushman - 2009 - Filled with yoga, India, Buddhist teachings, wisdom and humor.
- A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle - 1991 - Fun, Culture & Geography!
- The Great Reckoning by Louise Penny - 2016 - Book #12 with Chief Inspector Gamache, another Three Pines murder mystery.
- A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote - 1956 - An autobiographical account of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.
- Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death and Redemption in an American Prison by Shaka Senghor - 2016 - "It's not how you start in life that matters, it's how you finish."
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn - 1980 - Nonfiction, a history of the United States - history presented from the point of view of Native Americans, African Americans, Women.....
Next book discussion: January 5th, Euphoria by Lily King:
Based on events in Margaret Mead's life - competing egos and desires in the relationships between 3 anthropologists in New Guinea - this historical fiction probes the question: What if?