Book Club

Zion’s Book Club Discussion of December 1, 2011   “Once upon a time, there was a determined young lady named Sarah Prine who journeyed with her family through the Old West’sArizonaTerritoryby rough wagon train.  A tomboy who never knew that…
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    It is not often one reads a book that provides a gripping story, a history lesson, and an opportunity to reflect on the consequences of choices.  Zion Book Club members encountered such a book when they read “Sarah’s Key”…
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Zion Book Club:  Thursday September 22, 2011   After a wonderful but fast summer hiatus, the Zion Book Club tackled the rather dark novel The Fifth Woman by Swedish author Henning Mankell.  The novel features Detective Kurt Wallender, a dedicated…
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(from Cindy Bushey-our Book Club blogger) The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls provoked a lot of mixed emotions in me.  It’s a stunning retelling of a mixed-up childhood, sometimes loving, sometimes abusive.  The almost clinical descriptions of abject poverty and…
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Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Book Club Meeting on April 28, 2011    In life, it can sometimes be said of certain people that unless they have bad luck, they have no luck at all.  The main character in Lauren Hillibrand’s…
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The Zion Book Club met on March 24th to discuss “The Other Wes Moore”, a true story of two African-American boys of the same name and approximate age, living in the housing projects of Baltimore, Maryland and their divergent life…
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Celebrating literature, love, and the power of the human spirit, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is the story of an English author living in the shadow of World War II—and embarking on a writing project that will…
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Here is a list of the books that we have read so far, in Book Group:  we’re amazed at how many we’ve read.  In September we’re  going into our 4 th year of great reading and great fun!  In a highly…
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This is Kim’s pick for February 22nd Synopsis of “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” : Celebrating literature, love, and the power of the human spirit, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is the story of…
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Zion U.C.C.’s Book Club met Thursday, January 27, 2011 to discuss John Grisham’s The Confession.  Here is a synopsis:  An innocent man is about to be executed.  Only a guilty man can save him.  For every innocent man sent to…
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