Fourth Monday Book Group
Meets on Zoom every fourth Monday at 10:00am.
April Book
Date: April 22
Title: Tom Lake
Author: Ann Patchett
Leader: TBA
“Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety…”
Title: Tom Lake
Author: Ann Patchett
Leader: TBA
“Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety…”
May Book
Date: May 20
Title: Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Author: Mary Roach
Leader: TBA
We’re due for a nonfiction selection. Mary Roach’s “weirdly delightful dive into scientific nonfiction” (Marie Claire) should fill the bill as it “investigates the unpredictable world of human-wildlife conflict.” Roach travels the globe to explore and explain ways laws and customs in other countries as well as our own have coped with animal incursions into people’s lives. Or is it the other way around? The crisp, witty writing style makes a difficult subject sparkle.
Title: Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Author: Mary Roach
Leader: TBA
We’re due for a nonfiction selection. Mary Roach’s “weirdly delightful dive into scientific nonfiction” (Marie Claire) should fill the bill as it “investigates the unpredictable world of human-wildlife conflict.” Roach travels the globe to explore and explain ways laws and customs in other countries as well as our own have coped with animal incursions into people’s lives. Or is it the other way around? The crisp, witty writing style makes a difficult subject sparkle.
June Book
Date: June 24
Title: Horse: A Novel
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Leader: TBA
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“Every character is carefully and believably explored, including Lexington, the horse, an excellent racehorse … whose closest relationship is with his enslaved caretaker and exercise rider,… [Brooks] reveals a lot about racing art and biological science. Best horse book I’ve ever read, including all of my own.” —Jane Smiley, The New York Times Book Review
We are in line for a book group set. June and July choices may need to be reversed.
Title: Horse: A Novel
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Leader: TBA
.
“Every character is carefully and believably explored, including Lexington, the horse, an excellent racehorse … whose closest relationship is with his enslaved caretaker and exercise rider,… [Brooks] reveals a lot about racing art and biological science. Best horse book I’ve ever read, including all of my own.” —Jane Smiley, The New York Times Book Review
We are in line for a book group set. June and July choices may need to be reversed.
July Book
Date: July 22
Title: Rough Sleepers
Author: Tracy Kidder
Leader: TBA
Dr. Jim O’Connell undertakes an urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people in Boston. Tracy Kidder [you may remember him from Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer] chronicles O’Connell’s many years of outreach. This multifaceted account details effects of abuse, illness, drugs and alcohol along with poorly designed legal, medical, and housing rules.
Title: Rough Sleepers
Author: Tracy Kidder
Leader: TBA
Dr. Jim O’Connell undertakes an urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people in Boston. Tracy Kidder [you may remember him from Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer] chronicles O’Connell’s many years of outreach. This multifaceted account details effects of abuse, illness, drugs and alcohol along with poorly designed legal, medical, and housing rules.
