By Karon Winzenz The Echo Maker (2006) by Richard Powers will be discussed on August 1 starting at 1:30 pm, at a meeting hosted by Jamie Hanreddy at the Fellowship. The author has received numerous awards for his writing. This novel resembles a Kafkaesque nightmare when 27-year-old Mark suffers traumatic...

Craig Little, assisted by Sheila Saperstein, will lead a discussion of Christopher Hitchens book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything at the UU on Wednesday, September 5 and 12, from 10 am – noon. Class will be limited to 18, on a first-come-first-serve basis. Participants are expected to...

On July 11 the book group will meet at a potluck luncheon hosted by Cynthia Johnson starting at 1 pm to discuss The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach. Women of the fellowship are invited. Please R.S.V.P. at cbjohnson@itol.com The following is from a review by Steven Zeitchik, Los Angeles...

On Wednesday June 6, the Book Group will meet at 1:30 to discuss So Much for That by Lionel Shriver, a female writer and journalist. The discussion will be hosted and moderated by Liesbeth Fickes. Please contact her at liesbethjf@yahoo.com regarding attendance.  In So Much for That, Shriver presents a...

On Wednesday May 2, the UU Book Club will meet at 1:30 pm at the UU Fellowship to discuss The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht, hosted and moderated by Dottie Gerrits. This is the first book by this Belgrade-born novelist who is ethnic Bosniak/Slovene. She has lived in the United...

The UU Book Club By Karon Winzenz                                            Our book club will next meet at 1:30 pm on April 4 to discuss The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, a non-fiction book about Lacks and the immortal cell line that came from her cervical cancer cells in 1951. The...

By Karon Winzenz The UU Book Club will meet on Wednesday March 7 at 1:30 pm to discuss Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks.  Please contact Karon, hostess and moderator, at winzenzk@msn.com regarding your attendance. This historically based story is told by Bethia, the daughter of an early pioneer and strict...

By Karon Winzenz [important]The February 1 meeting has been cancelled.[/important] In March the group will meet to discuss Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks at the home of Karon Winzenz.

By Karon Winzenz The UU Book Club has selected its books for 2012 and look forward to an exciting year of reading. At UU on January 4th at 1:30 pm we will discuss two novels, The Paris Wife by Paula McClain and The Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemmingway. Helene will...

Below is the link to the UU Book Club Selections for 2012 (in PDF format). 2012 UU Book Club Selections (PDF) Throughout the year, you can view the list of the upcoming books on the “Book Group” page under “UU Events” on the menu bar.