Book Club
BOOKS CHOSEN TO BEGIN A NEW YEAR OF READING
“I have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges
Share the “paradise” of reading with the UUCY Book Club! Drop in by Zoom at 6:00 PM on the second Tuesday of every other month to join the chat about our current read. Check your Thursday update for the Zoom link.
Titles selected are available from Yakima Valley Libraries, often in hardcopy and electronic versions. They are also out in paperback and available through Inklings Bookshop at a “Book Club Member” discount.
January 11, 2022: A Children’s Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet
A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. The age-old war between kids and their parents, children and adults, is reimagined through the lens of Biblical devastation. The result is harrowing and, in unexpected moments, hilarious. Millet has created a story that feels both folkloric and brand new, a tale as much about environmental cataclysm as it is about fighting for the people, things, and ideas that remain right and true, no matter how high the water gets.
“With this slim yet potent book, [Millet] shows it is even possible to coax pleasure and beauty from the uncomfortable work of highlighting unfortunate truths.” — Emily Bobrow – Wall Street Journal
March 8, 2022: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.
A.J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died; his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history; and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. Slowly but surely, he is isolating himself. Even the books in his store have stopped holding pleasure for him. These days, he can only see them as a sign of a world that is changing too rapidly. But then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore.
“This novel has humor, romance, a touch of suspense, but most of all love–love of books and bookish people and, really, all of humanity in its imperfect glory.” —Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child
(Book information adapted from web pages for Inklings Bookshop and Yakima Valley Libraries.)