Our Alpine Book Club has been going on for almost ten years. It has been so enriching – even if no one really reads the books! When we first moved here to Alpine, I was complaining to an old friend who was in my Virginia book club. She moved to Seattle the same time we moved here and we were both trying re-create the wonderful book club we had just left. I was a little frustrated that no one really read the books we were supposed to be discussing, with the exception of two or three ladies. She sent me this refrigerator magnet that I love:
For this group we generally choose books that are recommended by at least one member of the book club or by a trusted source to avoid reading books that are inappropriate. We like to stick with PG rated books! For nine of the twelve months we select books from each of the following categories:
• Biography/Autobiography
• Classics
• American History (for July – can be fiction or non-fiction)
•Human suffering (Cultural Revolution in China, Holocaust, Khmer Rouge in Cambodia etc…)
• Juvenile or Young Adult
• Christmas
• Halloween/Mystery
• Christian book for Easter
• Parenting or self-help book
2014-15 Reading List
We have some really interesting titles this year!
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