Not-Too-Serious (N2S) Book Group
Reading Choices for 2006-2007
OVERVIEW
This book group is for those who like to think and discuss contemporary bestsellers from a spiritual point of view. One of Adult Spiritual Development’s initial goals was to begin to have people thinking theologically. A good starting place was viewing the books they read with a theological filter and then discussing them from a spiritual point of view. (We started this group a couple of years ago with the DaVinci Code and several other books.)
Those who wish to participate read the books which interested them. Rather than using the most current books, which can only be purchased in hardcover and are difficult to borrow from the library; we use slightly older books which are available from the library in book club kits, and including a large print volume and audio books. These loaner copies are signed out from church and returned by the night of the discussion.
We would especially like to thank
CURRENT SELECTIONS
Summer 2007: Our summer selections and discussion will be a handled a little bit differently. We have two choices available and rather than meet for a discussion, we will have on-line discussions so that you can you share your thoughts wherever you may be in July and August. Look for the books mid-June on the Christian formation Table, and we ask that you only keep them until you have finished reading them and then return them as we don’t have as many this time to loan out. If you’ve already read them, we suggest reading them again as both selections can mean different things to you at different times in your life.
A modern-day classic. "Gift from the Sea is like a shell itself in its small and perfect form . . . It tells of light and life and love and the security that lies at the heart".--New York Times Book Review.
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
What if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one? Charley Benetto chose to live with his father when his parents divorced. He returns to his hometown decades later when his life is falling apart and finds his mother, who died eight years earlier, still living there.
PAST SELECTIONS
May 2007: One Thousand White Women:
The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the
February 2007: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
A remarkable story about mothers and daughters and the women in our lives who become our true mothers, this is a stunning debut whose rich, assured, irresistible voice gathers us up and doesn't let go, not for a moment.
April 2007: Reading Lolita in
Prof. Nafisi resigned from her job as professor of English Literature at a university in
January 2007: Prodigal Summer: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
A beguiling departure for Kingsolver, who generally tackles social themes with trenchantly serious messages, this sentimental but honest novel exhibits a talent for fiction lighter in mood and tone than The Poisonwood Bible and her previous works. There is also a new emphasis on the natural world, described in sensuous language and precise detail. But Kingsolver continues to take on timely issues, here focusing on the ecological damage caused by herbicides, ethical questions about raising tobacco, and the endangered condition of subsistence farming. A corner of southern
November 2006: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
In 1959, Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist, takes his four young daughters, his wife, and his mission to the
October 2006: Founding Brothers
In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award-winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals-Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison-confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the course for our nation. The