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Zion Book Club continues to meet throughout the summer, and upcoming books include:

• The Camel Bookmobile on May 11
• Saving Fish from Drowning on June 8
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle on July 13
• The Cradle on August 10
• The Leper on September 14

This is a low pressure book club. Readers are encouraged to simply come for discussion with no preparation, they are not obligated to agree on (or even finish) the books. Come when you have interest and time, so that book club will enrich your life, and not become another stress or obligation.

The book club will meet on Monday, January 12 at 7pm in the Zion Library to discuss Cold Mountain by Charles Frasier.

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The book club selection for September is Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. Book Club will meet in the library on September 8 at 7pm.

Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie’s classic children’s novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver’s Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz. In this captivating adaptation for the stage, Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers.

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A Study Guide for this book

The next books will be A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson on October 13 and Digging to America by Anne Tyler on November 10.

The book club selection for August is Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger (the first of his mystery series) . Book Club will meet in the library on August 11 at 7pm.

Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Corcoran “Cork” O’Connor is the former sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota (population 3,752). Embittered over losing his job as a cop and over the marital meltdown that has separated him from his wife and children, Cork gets by on heavy doses of caffeine, nicotine, and guilt. Read the rest of this entry »

Book club has changed days from the second Tuesday of each month to the second Monday. We meet at 7pm in the Zion Library / Chapel.

Our summer schedule is as follows:

• June 9: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• July 14: Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
• Aug 11: Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger (the first of his mystery series)

The book club selection for July is Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz . Book Club will meet on July 14 at 7pm.

Odd Thomas is just that. He works as a fry cook in the fictional California town of Pico Mundo. Should he ever leave that position, he sees a future in selling tires or shoes. What he lacks in ambition, he makes up for with a special gift. He communes with and sees the dead, some of whom enlist his help in avenging their deaths from foul play. His gift is a secret from everyone except his beautiful girlfriend and the Chief of Police, who never questions Odd’s tips, advice, or presence at a murder scene.

School Library Journal

Read more of this review on Amazon.com, and a very unique introduction by the animated main character on the author’s web site. School Library Journal recommends this book for high school and adults.

The August book will be Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger (the first of his mystery series) on August 11.

Starting Soon:

• Stay-at-home Mom’s & Dad’s Book Club
• Middle School Mothers & Daughters Summer Book Club

Please contact Beth Keller at 684.2477 or email bxpwychor (at) gmail (dot) com by May 30 if you are interested in either group.

The book club selection for June is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Book Club will meet on June 10 Monday June 9 at 7pm (date changed).

Death meets the book thief, a 9-year-old girl named Liesel Meminger, when he comes to take her little brother, and she becomes an enduring force in his life, despite his efforts to resist her. “I traveled the globe . . . handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity,” Death writes. “I warned myself that I should keep a good distance from the burial of Liesel Meminger’s brother. I did not heed my advice.” As Death lingers at the burial Read the rest of this entry »

The Book Club selection for Tuesday May 13 (7pm)  is “Blue Shoes and Happiness” (from the Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency series) by Alexander McCall Smith.

Here is a review, and another one

Summer picks will be made at the April 8 meeting.

The book club selection for April is The Horizontal World: Growing up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere by Debra Marquart. Book Club will meet on April 8 at 7pm in the library.

“From the first word, Marquart (The Hunger Bone) makes clear that she’s got some reckoning to do with her home place, damning horny farmboys and the “seeds” they plant in the first paragraph of this rich memoir of growing up on a North Dakota farm. Read the rest of this entry »

The book club selection for March is A Separate Peace by John Knowles. There are copies available in the library to borrow.

“The novel begins with the adult Gene Forrester returning to Devon, an exclusive New Hampshire prep school, which Gene had attended in his youth. The sights of Devon, and in particular a large tree and a marble staircase, evoke memories and emotions within Gene. The book then travels back to Gene’s past, immediately introducing a number of characters, including Phineas. Despite their polar personalities, Gene and Phineas made fast friends at Devon: Gene’s quiet, introverted intellectual personality matches Finny’s more extroverted, carefree, athletic demeanor.” (Wikipedia)

A reading guide for this book is available online.

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The book club selection for February is In the Lake of the Woods by Minnesota native, Tim O’Brien. The Chicago Tribune called this book “A risky, ambitious, perceptive, engaging, and troubling novel…a major attempt to come to grips with the causes and consequences of the late 20th century’s unquenchable appetite for violence, both domestic and foreign.”

A reading guide for this book is available online.

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