Book Club

May 2019 – Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan Blog by Cindy Bushey It is true that victors write the history books and can thereby skew a reader’s view of events.  It is also true that sometimes people would…
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April 2019 – Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen Blog by Cindy Bushey Being a member of a book club can open many genres of writing that you normally would never choose to explore.  And there’s no guarantee you will always…
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March 2019 – Educated by Tara Westover blog by Cindy Bushey While we have wide-ranging discussions of the books we’ve read during our Book Club meetings, Zion’s readers rarely articulate how they come to their ratings decisions.  With apologies to…
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Most of us interact with the world through various filters learned over the course of our lives. We make automatic adjustments as we recognize clues from these filters – “raining cats and dogs”, “fit as a fiddle”, “sharp as a…
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January 2019 – The Boy at the Keyhole by Stephen Giles blog by Cindy Bushey Zion’s readers had the intriguingly named novel The Boy at the Keyhole as their January selection.  It was billed as a psychological thriller and was…
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December 2018 – A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles blog by Cindy Bushey Anyone who has ever attempted to read any of the great works of Russian literature such Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Dr. Zhivago by Pasternak, or The…
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November 2018 – The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni blog by Cindy Bushey   As a society, we tend to speak in superlatives as if no person, place, thing, or event is of worth unless described in…
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Dog on It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery (The Chet and Bernie Mystery Series) by Spencer Quinn Blog by Cindy Bushey and Kim Blocher The Book Club needed a light read in the midst of frustrating political news, hurricanes, and…
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September 2018 – Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta blog by Cindy Bushey Thanks to almost infinite subject matter, readers can afford to pick and choose books in which to lose themselves.  Most develop favorite genres and, over…
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June 2018 – The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn blog by Cindy Bushey Nothing succeeds like success – a self-evident adage manifested in the popularity of novels such as Gone Girl, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The…
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