HOPEDALE UNITARIAN BOOK GROUP

All are welcome to join the Hopedale Unitarian Book Group! This recently formed group is brimming with opportunity for literary-minded individuals. If you welcome a reason to read a book and engage in stimulating conversation, then this is the group is for you! We will be reading all genres of books, and welcome any ideas.

Feel free to come on a regular basis, or whenever it fits into your schedule. We meet from 7-9 pm on the last Monday of every month. The first 15 minutes will be social time, have coffee and chat. Rides are usually available for those in need. Please contact the church office to arrange for transportation. (508) 473-0745.

BOOKS AND MEETINGS 2013

January 6, 2013 - The intergeneration Books group met after Sunday service to discuss C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. On Friday Jan 11th, the movie was shown.

January 14, 2013 - Sacré Bleu by Christopher Moore

March 5, 2013 - Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim in the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation by Eboo Patel.

April 8, 2013 - Martyr by Rory Clements

May 20, 2013 - The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. This is the original Oz book, and we hear it is quite different from the 1939 movie. This is our last book group meeting this church year. We will start up again in September. Please bring some books to suggest for our September meeting.

 

BOOKS DISCUSSED IN PRIOR YEARS

BOOKS READ IN 2012

January 10, 2012 - Desperate Voyage by John Caldwell

February 13, 2012 - The March by E.L. Doctorow

March 12, 2012 - Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson.

May 14, 2012 - Flight of Passage by Rinker Buck

September 10, 2012 - 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

October 15, 2012 - Aunt Julia and The Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa

November 19, 2012 - Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

BOOKS READ IN 2011

January 10 - The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander and Oliver's Surprise by Carol Newman Cronin

 

February 15 - Still Life by Louise Penny - It is an award winning mystery set in Quebec

 

March 14th - Lord of the Flies by William Golding - a classic

 

April 11th The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum

May 9th  - Moonlight Downs by Adrian Hyland set in Australia

 

June 13th - Up Front by Bill Mauldin NY Best Seller 1945-1946

 

Summer reading - A Game of Thrones by George Martin.

 

October 10 - Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian

November 14 - 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson

BOOKS READ IN 2010

January 25, 2010     Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

 

February 22  The Devil in While City by Erik Larson

 

March: No meeting

 

April 12  Book Thief   by Markus  Zusak

 

May 10 The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

 

October 11 Ape House by Sara Gruen

BOOKS READ IN 2009

Jan. 31, 2009 - Nicholas and Alexandra  - Robert K. Massie.

Feb. 23, 2009 - Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

 

March 30              Replay                        Ken Grimwood           

 

April 27                Lamb                         Christopher Moore        

 

May 26                Kingdom Coming        Michelle Goldberg

June 29                Maisie Dobbs             Jacqueline Winspear

 

September 28  Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett and Time Traveler's Wife  by Audrey Niffenegger

 

October 24   Atonement by Ian McEwan  - Book and Movie night.

 

November 30  Olive Kitteredge  by Elizabeth Strout

 

December   No meeting. Holidays

 

 

BOOKS READ IN 2008

January 28, 2008 - A Thousand Spendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

February 25, 2008 - Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

March 31, 2008 - The Naked Quaker: True Crimes and Controversies from the Courts of Colonial New England by Diane Rapaport. by Diane Rapaport. by Diane Rapaport. We will meet in the Parish hall from 7 -9 pm. THE AUTHOR, DIANE RAPAPORT, WILL BE PRESENT to give an hour long presentation on both her books The Naked Quaker: True Crimes and Controversies from the Courts of Colonial New England and New England Court Records: A Research Guide for Genealogists and Historians. Followed by an hour of discussion and questions.

April 28, 2008 - Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

May 27, 2008 - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. We will meet on Tuesday rather than Monday due to Memorial Day.

June 23, 2008 - Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini. This is the Hopedale town book to read. We will have the Hopedale Librarian come to lead our group that night.

 

July 28, 2008 - Water Music by TC Boyle

 

August 25, 2008 - The Ambassador by Henry James

Sept 29, 2008 - Blasphemy by Douglas Preston

Oct. 27, 2008 - Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

 

Dec. 1, 2008 - Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

BOOKS READ IN 2007  

January 29th-The Knife Man by Wendy Moore

February 26 - Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

March 26th- An Inconvienent Truth by Al Gore

April 30 - I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away  By Bill Bryson

 

May 29  - Left to Tell (Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust) by Immaculee Ilibagiza

 

June 24 -Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende

 

July 30  - Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

Aug 27  - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Sept 24 - Murder by Coffee by Glenn Ickler. Local author Glenn Ickler will join us to discuss his book Murder by Coffee. It is about a murder at a Unitarian Board meeting. Glenn is a resident of Hopedale and a long time Unitarian who is a member of the Framingham Church.  All are welcome to come and chat with Glen about his book and writing career.

October 29th - The End of Faith by Sam Harris

November 26 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald