Book Group – December

Book Group – December

On December 10 at 2:30 p.m. we will discuss Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver at St. Matthew’s. Demon, born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools,...
October Book Group

October Book Group

On October 15—notice date change—we will travel West with Giraffes to discuss Lynda Rutledge’s novel at St. Matthew’s at 2:30 pm. Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the...
August Book Group

August Book Group

On August 13 at 2:30, we’ll discuss the whydunit thriller The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson at St. Matthew’s.A rollicking true-crime adventure and a...
May Book Group

May Book Group

During horse racing season, on May 21 at 2:30, we will discuss Horse by Geraldine Brooks at St. Matthew’s.  A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these...