Book Clubs at Christ Church

Non Fiction Book Club

Tuesday, April 22,  2025, at 3:00 pm 

We will discuss An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin.  Kearns takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon during the last years of his life.  The Goodwins' last adventure involved finally opening the more than 300 boxes of letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia that Dick had saved for more than 50 years. (goodreads.com)

We will meet on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, to discuss The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert Putnam with Shaylyn Garret.  Deep accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissism --  Americans today seem to agree on only one thing:  This is the worst of times.  But we've been here before.  During the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, America was highly individualistic, starkly unequal, fiercely polarized, and deeply fragmented, just as it is today.  However, as the twentieth century opened, America began - slowly, unevenly, but steadily - more egalitarian, more cooperative, more generous; a society more focused on our responsibilities to one another and less focused on our narrower self-interest.  Sometime during the 1960s, however, our nation turned another corner, and all of these trends reversed, leaving us in today’s disarray.  (goodreads.com)

Our meetings are in a hybrid format with both in person attendance and via Zoom. Zoom information will be distributed prior to each meeting (see below).  To get more information about the book club, to be added to our distribution list or to suggest a book discussion, please contact Jim Baroody (jimbaroody@gmail.com).

Our meetings are in a hybrid format with both in person attendance and via Zoom. Zoom information will be distributed prior to each meeting.  To get more information about the book club, to be added to our distribution list or to suggest a book discussion, please contact Jim Baroody (jimbaroody@gmail.com)..

Women's Book Club

May 1st and June 5th, both at 7pm in the Fellowship Room

May 1st : Fuzz: when nature breaks the law by Mary Roach   Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and trespassing squirrels, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature’s lawbreakers. When it comes to “problem” wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem—and the solution. Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.

June 5th: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez   When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the dog he left behind. Now her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of a huge Great Dane, and by the threat of eviction. Increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.

 - Provided by publisher.For more information, please contact Pam Burch, (pburch1@rochester.rr.com.)