Collecting My Thoughts

I hate to read names in novels and not be able to pronounce them. It slows me down, and I'm already a very slow reader. So I'm readi...

 For book club this month I'm reading Jon Meacham's "And there was light; Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle." (Ran...

Each May our book club selects nine titles for the next September through May reading period. And today was that day.   This year’s selectio...

I've been reading "The personal librarian" the story of J.P. Morgan's curator of his rare books and manuscript collection,...

Our Monday Book Club's selection for May was The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott. We had a lively discussion with some points mentioned,...

Yesterday we had our final meeting of this season, and a lively discussion of The Ninth Hour by Anne McDermott. We voted on selections for ...

To avoid watching the news and the mess Biden has made of our lives, I've been reading the March book club selection while on the exercy...

I knew Jean only casually before I retired from Ohio State, but got to know her better after 2000 when we were both in the same book club. S...

   Book Club Schedule for 2021-22   All Book Club meetings will be on first Monday at 2 PM at Bethel Presbyterian unless noted otherwise. Se...

Our book club selection today was "7 men and 7 women," by Eric Metaxas. Two of the individuals, William Wilberforce and Hannah Mor...

I am the hostess (on Zoom) for the March book club and we’re reading the book by Eric Metaxas, Seven Men and Seven Women and the Secret of ...

Our book club, which doesn’t have a name, was organized by a group of young mothers mostly who lived in Clintonville and attended Bethel Roa...

Although I haven't ordered it yet (library computer system seems to be locked up) the selection for our book club on March 4 is Thurberv...

December is always a fun month with lots of special activities like concerts, dinners and get togethers. So in noting our January schedule, ...

  At least I think it was 1949. . . that’s the year the book was published. This book was made into a movie in 1952 starring Cary Grant an...

I'm reading "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles for September book club. It's a great read, and I admit to being thrill...

I know from reading Facebook that some of my friends  like and participate in on-line reading groups. I just don't get it. I often don’t...

From a letter. "I had book group here September 9. I finished the book, “John Adams,” that Monday morning!  I made my mother’s apple wa...

Yesterday our book club (originally formed by a group of young mothers in Clintonville over 30 years ago and I joined in 2000 when I retire...

Except where noted, we meet at Bethel Rd. Presbyterian Church. Sept. 12--All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr--led by Carolyn a...