by Karen Theroux
The new UCV Potluck Book and Lunch Club brings together good books, delicious food, and lively conversation. Unlike most book clubs, the PLB&LC doesn’t choose one book for everyone to read. Instead, members bring one, or two, or more favorites to describe and recommend. We go around the table highlighting what’s special about our choices, sometimes reading passages aloud, and we talk about how the books—magical, tragic, uplifting, revealing, inspiring, or sad—have touched and changed us. All books and all readers are welcome.
If you love books, why not join the club? Meetings are the last Thursday of the month, 11 to 1 in the Fireside Room.
Here are some of the titles from the club’s most recent meetings:
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Shoebox Bible by Alan Bradley
Here if You Need Me by Kate Braestrup
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kampkwanda
The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Celia’s Song by Lee Maracle
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Sustenance by Rachel Rose
The Trans Generation by Ann Travers
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Annabel by Kathleen Winter
Once Upon a Time by Jane Yolen
This One Looks Like a Boy by Lorimer Shenher