Bev Marshall hosted her recent Book Club meeting and invited Charlie Pattinian, the author of Ending My Prayers with PHEW! to discuss how he and his wife Carolann took a four-month, perilous trip along the off-roads of South America into the unknown. The group asked an array of questions about Charlie’s motivation to write, his…
Mary Greer “This is my very own book,” explained a four-year-old boy, showing me pages of beetles, spiders, and other crawly things. He chose this book from more than 100 books donated by the Quail Creek Book Club. Each year members bring new books to the holiday party, which are then distributed to the Sahuarita…
Mary Greer Each year members of the Quail Creek Book Club bring new children’s books to their December holiday party. These books are distributed to low-income children by the food bank staff. Laura Reilly, facilitator for the Book Club, was told by employees that these books are the only holiday gifts some children receive. The…
MC Kollschegg When it is either too hot or too wet to be outside, pick up the biography, Isabelle: the Life of Isabelle Eberhardt by Annette Kobak for a good read. Isabelle was a brilliant French writer who was of Russian heritage but was born in Switzerland and lived most of her short life in the…
Mary Kollschegg For those who lived during the time of the Korean War (or Conflict as some insist on calling it), their recollections of the news stories about North Korea probably do not include such concepts as friendship, love or beauty. The Monday Book Club’s selection for April, The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson, contains all…
Set on a North Dakota reservation The Round House by Louise Erdrich explores the actions of a young boy trying to navigate both the tribal system of justice and the white man’s laws as he attempts to gain information that would put the man who attacked his mother behind bars. Joe, only 13 years old, does…
Jane Bottlinger On Monday, October 7, the Book Club will meet in the Madera Clubhouse Gold Room at 7:00 p.m. Judy Thut will facilitate our discussion of Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James. The year is 1803 and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and…
Jane Bottlinger The Monday Night Book Club is scheduled to meet at 7:00 p.m. in the Silver Room at the Madera Clubhouse on Monday, August 5. Scott McLain will facilitate the discussion of Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The setting of the book takes us back to the suburbs of New York in…
Jane Bottlinger On Monday, July 8 the Monday Night Book Club will meet at 7:00 p.m. in the Silver Room of the Madera Clubhouse. Kathleen Berry will facilitate our discussion of Fools of Fortune by William Trevor. In this award winning novel an informer’s body is found on the estate of a wealthy Irish family shortly…