Book Club

June 2021 – Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour   Signals are important.  We all use signals to help us interpret whatever is facing us.  If we can recognize a signal, we can begin to develop understanding of a subject, an…
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May 2021 –  Hostile Witness by William Lashner Rarely has Zion’s Book Club had a closer relationship to a chosen book than May’s Hostile Witness.   Our reader who selected this novel shares a profession with author William Lashner.  Lashner is…
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April 2021 – The Wife, The Maid, and the Mistress by Ariel Lawhon Zion’s Book Club took a step back in time for their April selection to the 1930’s:  New York City speakeasies, Prohibition, the infancy of the Broadway musical…
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Book Club March 2021:  Heavy by Kiese Laymon After a Covid-induced break, Zion’s Book Club reconvened in March of 2021 with a discussion of Heavy by Kiese Laymon.  It might be the most appropriately titled book the club has ever…
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October 2020 – The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Zion’s readers stepped back a few decades in time with their October selection The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek by author Kim Michele Richardson.  Back to the Depression-era 1930’s…
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September 2020 – Company of Liars by Karen Maitland Back in June, when one of our readers selected Company of Liars as the September novel for Zion’s Book Club, she said we would need the summer break to digest it. …
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June 2020 – Born a Crime:  Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah As it did with many things, Covid-19 caused a major interruption in Zion’s Book Club schedule.  Unable to meet in person and unwilling to give…
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March 2020 – Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng “Still waters run deep” is one of those old chestnuts our grandparents were wont to say on occasion. Totally befuddled us when we were younger but, if ever a saying applied…
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February 2020 – Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt Sometimes our vantage point from 2020 obscures how little time has passed since the world was a very different place. Especially here in the United States in a solidly first-world…
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January 2020 – The Dutch House by Ann Patchett A book that is a compelling read but has unsympathetic characters is difficult to explain. It seems counter-intuitive that both attributes reside between the same covers. The Dutch House by author…
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