Elizabeth Book Club
The Elizabeth Book Club held its first meeting in October 2016 and met once every month until the first wave of the pandemic. Even then, the group missed only two months, March and April 2020, before moving to Zoom meetings.
Eventually we hope to again meet face-to-face in the Elizabeth’s Community Room. Members—both men and women—volunteer to select a title and lead the discussion at the monthly meeting. The titles chosen include both fiction and non-fiction. Discussions at times venture beyond the text at hand to wider issues.
Take a look at the list of books the group has read. If you’re interested, contact judyvdouglas@verizon.net for email reminders of future meetings. They are held on the second Monday of each month, from 4:30 to 6:00 in the afternoon.
Here are the books planned for future meetings:
January 10, 2022: Paul Douglas, Damnation Spring (2021), by Ash Davidson. 468 pages, fiction.
February 14, 2022: Brenda Peterson, The Lincoln Highway (2021), by Amor Towles. 593 pages, fiction.
March 14, 2022: Jess Kamen, The Mercies (2020), by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. 352 pages, historical fiction.
April 11, 2022: Chris Steele, Deacon King Kong (2020), by James McBride. 386 pages, fiction.
May 9, 2022: Dita Pepin
June 13, 2022: Steve Rose, Open (2009), by Andre Agassi. 509 pages, autobiography.
July 11, 2022:
August 8, 2022: Mary Gumpenberger
September 12, 2022:
October 10, 2022: Chris Steele, Klara and the Sun (2021), by Kazuo Ishigura. 307 pages, fiction.
November 14, 2022: Joe or Paula McGee
December 12, 2022: Eileen Hamner
Past books enjoyed by the group:
Article written on the group in the Pearl District Neighborhood Newsletter: