Our new ward has a Book Club group that I have started going to. It has been a great way to make some new friends, and read a few good books as well. We meet every other month and discuss two books each time. Our next meeting is in June, below are the two books we are suppose to read.
THE NO 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY By: Alexander McCall Smith It's the detective as folk hero, solving crimes through an innate, self-possessed wisdom that, combined with an understanding of human nature, invariably penetrates into the heart of a puzzle. Spending the money she got from selling her late father's cattle to set up a Ladies' Detective Agency--then you have an idea of how Precious sets herself up as her country's first female detective. Once the clients start showing up on her doorstep, Precious enjoys a pleasingly successful series of cases. (Description taken from Amazon.com)
GILEAD By: Marilynne Robinson The narrator, John Ames, is 76, a preacher who has lived almost all of his life in Gilead, Iowa. He is writing a letter to his almost seven-year-old son, the blessing of his second marriage. It is a summing-up, an apologia, a consideration of his life. Robinson takes the story away from being simply the reminiscences of one man and moves it into the realm of a meditation on fathers and children, particularly sons, on faith, and on the imperfectability of man. (Description from Amazon.com)
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Have you started reading them? Tell me how they are. The first one sounds pretty interesting.
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