Fourth Monday Book Group
Meets on Zoom every fourth Monday at 10:00am.
September Book
September 25 The Healing of Natalie Curtis Jane Kirkpatrick
Leader: Dottie Villesvik
Historical fiction about a very real woman who traveled with her brother from New York to the Southwest in the early twentieth century in search of healing. A gifted pianist, she is intrigued by the music of the Indigenous people and infuriated by laws that prohibit them from practicing their own culture. Her story touches ecology, education, music, friendships, advocacy, and women’s place in society.
Leader: Dottie Villesvik
Historical fiction about a very real woman who traveled with her brother from New York to the Southwest in the early twentieth century in search of healing. A gifted pianist, she is intrigued by the music of the Indigenous people and infuriated by laws that prohibit them from practicing their own culture. Her story touches ecology, education, music, friendships, advocacy, and women’s place in society.
October Book
October 23 Dear Committee Members Julie Schumacher Leader: TBA
For the first time in many months, we have a set of 10 copies from the Everett Public Library. They’re not just promised: they are already on site - plenty early!
Schumacher lays out this novel, first book in a just-completed trilogy, in a scant 180 pages of most unusual letters of reference. Jason T. Fitger, English professor in a small, undistinguished midwest college sends these missives to a variety of prospective employers and department heads alternatively extolling a student supplicant and expressing his own pain as the English department is passed over for amenities other departments enjoy. NPR’s Maureen Corrigan writes: “Dear Committee Members deftly mixes comedy with social criticism and righteous outrage.”
For the first time in many months, we have a set of 10 copies from the Everett Public Library. They’re not just promised: they are already on site - plenty early!
Schumacher lays out this novel, first book in a just-completed trilogy, in a scant 180 pages of most unusual letters of reference. Jason T. Fitger, English professor in a small, undistinguished midwest college sends these missives to a variety of prospective employers and department heads alternatively extolling a student supplicant and expressing his own pain as the English department is passed over for amenities other departments enjoy. NPR’s Maureen Corrigan writes: “Dear Committee Members deftly mixes comedy with social criticism and righteous outrage.”
