many books calling my name; are you experiencing the same phenomena? What book(s) have
you spent time with currently and would share with a friend?
Here is a list of titles that book group members reading & recommending:
- Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventures of a Spiritual Seeker & Visionary Physician who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History by Larry Brilliant (2016)
- The Infinite View: A Guidebook for Life on Earth by Ellen Tadd (2016)
- The Year of Living Dangerously: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russel (2016)
- Murder on the Quai (An Aimee Leduc Investigation) by Cara Black (2016)
- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier ((Watch the movie!)
- The 100 Year Old Man who Climbed Out the Window & Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (2012)
- Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson (2016)
- The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (2016)
- The Apothecary's Daughter by Julie Klassen (2009)
- Miss Jane: A Novel by Brad Watson (2016)
- Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders (2017) (Audio book recommended.)
- The War Prayer by Mark Twain: "Written by Mark Twain during the Philippine-American War in the first decade of the twentieth century, The War Prayer tells of a patriotic church service held to send the town's young men off to war. During the service, a stranger enters and addresses the gathering. He tells the patriotic crowd that their prayers for victory are double-edged-by praying for victory they are also praying for the destruction of the enemy... for the destruction of human life.
Originally rejected for publication in 1905 as "not quite suited to a woman's magazine," this antiwar parable remained unpublished until 1923, when Twain's literary executor collected it in the volume Europe and Elsewhere." (Amazon Description) - The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria by Alia Malek (2017)
Next Book Discussion will be the classic To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee on
Thursday, May 4th. The following Thursday, May 11th, we meet once again to
watch the movie with a short discussion afterwards.