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The Prairie Book Club meets monthly, after the Sunday Service at Prairie, about 11:45 a.m.. Bring potluck food to share. This is an open book club. You may come whether or not you have read the book. For more information, contact Mary Mullen, 608.298.0843 or mmullen@chorus.net. Sunday, Nov. 29 – Here If You Need Me – A True Story by Kate Braestrup. This is the memoir of a middle aged woman who becomes a UU minister after being widowed and serves as a chaplain in Maine’s Forest Service. Publisher’s Weekly says that the author’s “insightful essays are extraordinarily well written, mingling elements of police procedural and touching love story with trenchant observations about life and death. Alert to comic detail even in grisly circumstances…she tells stories of lost children, a suicide, drunken accidents and a murder, always with compassion and a concern for the big questions inescapably provoked by tragic events.” The review at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082801575.html will definitely get you to read this book! 211 pages. Recommended by Barb Park. Sunday, Dec. 20 – The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon is a “detective story set in an alternate history version of the present day, based on the premise that during World War II, a temporary settlement for Jewish refugees was established in Sitka, Alaska in 1941, and that the fledgling State of Israel was destroyed in 1948. The novel is set in Sitka, which it depicts as a large, Yiddish-speaking metropolis.” (from Wikipedia) The book has won several science fiction awards. 224 pages. Sunday, Jan. 24 –Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and her niece Annie Barrows. The book is written as a series of letters that tells the history of a small group of Channel Islanders during five years of Nazi occupation. The reviews point out that book lovers will love it because it is a novel in letters about books, bibliophiles, publishers, authors and readers, 243 pages. Recommended by Rose Smith. Sunday, Feb. 21 – Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese, a story involving a complex Indian family, takes place in Ethiopia and America . The author is a renowned physician, and a number of the characters are physicians. 541 pages. Recommended by Mary Franz. Sunday, March 21 – Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species by Sean Carroll. “tells the stories of the most dramatic expeditions and important discoveries in two centuries of natural history — from the epic journeys of pioneering naturalists to the breakthroughs making headlines today — and how they inspired and have expanded one of the greatest ideas of modern science: evolution.” 352 pages. Recommended by Galen Smith. |