The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

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...

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Discussion of Book By Christopher Hitchens

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...

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The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

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...

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The UU Book Group

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...

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The Tiger’s Wife

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...

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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...

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March 7 – Caleb’s Crossing

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...

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Book Group

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.

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Book Club

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...

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