Non Fiction Book Club
On Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 3:00 pm we will meet to discuss The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel. Stephane Breitwieser, with the assistance of his girlfriend, stole more than 300 artworks from some 200 places, averaging one theft every 12 days for seven years. Finkel presents a spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius. This is a riveting story of art, crime, love and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.
We will meet on Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 3:00 pm to discuss An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1969s 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.
In April we will meet on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 3:00 pm to discuss The Little Book of Aliens by Adam Frank (this is a week later than our usual monthly schedule to avoid Holy Week). Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester, addresses the biggest questions in our search for extraterrestrial life in this little book. Drawing from his own work and that of other scientists studying the possibility of alien life, he brings together the latest scientific thinking, data, ideas and discoveries to equip us with the critical facts as we stand at the last moment of human history where we believe we are alone.
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
Thursday, February 6 at 7:00 pm
We've chosen Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers and a summary follows: The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of mystery fiction’s most enduring and endearing protagonists. Acclaimed author Ruth Rendell has expressed her admiration for Sayers’s work, praising her “great fertility of invention, ingenuity, and wonderful eye for detail.” The third Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane, Gaudy Night is now back in print with an introduction by Elizabeth George, herself a crime fiction master. Gaudy Night takes Harriet and her paramour, Lord Peter, to Oxford University, Harriet’s alma mater, for a reunion, only to find themselves the targets of a nightmare of harassment and mysterious, murderous threats. (from the MCLS website)
Thursday, March 13 at 7:00 pm
We've chosen The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride:
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe.
- Provided by publisher.For more information, please contact Pam Burch, (pburch1@rochester.rr.com.)
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