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EVENING BOOK CLUB

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SIG Leader:  June Love
jlove4her@yahoo.com

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The Evening Book Club reads a variety of genres and members are encouraged to suggest books to be placed on our Reading List.  We meet at 7:00 pm on the 3rd Thursday of every month, except December.  The location will change monthly depending on which member has been kind enough to host the meeting.

​We always welcome new members to our group. If you're interested in joining, please contact June by email using the link above, or you may call her at 469-779-2126.

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The ​October 2019 book is
"The Woman in the Window" 
by A. J. Finn

October Hostess:  Kollette Greene
2205 Yaupon Drive

​Thursday, October 17, 2019
7:00 p.m.

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2019 FUTURE READING  LIST

NOVEMBER - Hostess:  Paula Petelle
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover 
(352 pages)
 
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills” bag. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged metal in her father’s junkyard.

Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when an older brother became violent.

When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one’s closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes, and the will to change it.

JANUARY 2020 - Hostess:  Sandy Theiss
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2014 Pulizter Prize for Fiction)
(771 pages)
 
Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.

As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love--and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.

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