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:
June 13, 2022: Steve Rose, Open (2009), by Andre Agassi. 509 pages, autobiography.
July 11, 2022: Paul Douglas, Bewilderment (2021), by Richard Powers. 229 pages, fiction.
August 8, 2022: Mary Gumpenberger, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith (2019), by Timothy Egan. 367 pages, memoir non-fiction.
September 12, 2022: Bonnie Koehler, True Grit (1968). 240 pages, fiction.
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, Lessons from the Edge (2022), by Marie Yovanovitch. 416 pages, non-fiction.
Past books enjoyed by the group:
Article written on the group in the Pearl District Neighborhood Newsletter: