The Ashland Book
Club usually meets on the third Sunday of each month in Room 111
at 4:00 p.m. Listed below are the books discussed and those for
the upcoming months.
Why a Book Club?
The first book-of-the-month club started in the late 1800's at a
Methodist Camp at Lake Chautauqua in Eastern New York. The Rev.
John H. Vincent began a book club with members encouraged to form
discussion groups in their homes and churches.
At Ashland, books are chosen by the group and range from drama,
fiction, controversial, to the down right hilarious. Please check
out out web site calendar to be sure of meeting times or call thechurch
office 798-5350 x 14.
Reading
List
2008
January 2008:Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen (Told in flashback by a 90 year old, recounts wild and wonderful period he spent with a traveling circus during the Great Depression)
February 2008:On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Drama of apprehensive newlyweds set in wedding suite on Dorset Coast)
March 2008:Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (Thriller about a high school shooting by an alienated teen)
April - The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
May - Leap of Faith, by Queen Noor [this autobiography is a selection of the 2008 UMW Reading Program in the Spiritual Growth category]
June - The Touch, by Colleen McCullough
July - The Innocent Man , by John Grisham
August - Good Dog.Stay., by Anna Quindlen
September - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith (classic selection for 2008)
March 2005 – “Sweet Potato Queens:
Book of Love” by Jill Connor Browne
April 2005 – “How I live Now”
by Meg Rosoff
May 2005 – “ In His Steps”
by Charles Sheldon
June 2005 – “Miss Julia Speaks Her
Mind” by Ann B. Ross
July 2005 –“Plan B: Further Thoughts
on Faith” by Anne Lamotte
August 2005 – “Pawleys Island”
by Dorthea Benton Frank
September 2005– “Time Traveler’s
Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger
October 2005 – “The Mermaid’s
Chair” by Sue Monck Kidd
November 2005 – “The Curious Incident
of the Dog at Night-time” by Mark Haddon
December 2005 – “The Kite Runner”
by Khaled Hosseini
January 2006 - My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
February 2006 - At First Sight, Nicholas Sparks
March 2006 - God's Politics, Jim Wallis
April 2006 - The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan
Didion
May 2006 - to the movies: "The Da Vinici
Code" compare with book
June 2006 - "The Historian" by Elizabeth
Kostova
July 2006 - "Teacher Man" by Frank
McCourt
August
2006 - Night by Elie Wiesel
September 2006 - The Optimist's Daughter by
Eudora Welty
October 2006 - Hissy Fit, Mary Kay Andrews
November 2006 - The Memory Keeper's Daughter,
Kim Edwards
December 2006 - The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, Eva
Rice
January 2007 - When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka
February 2007 - Hot Shot by Susan Elizabeth
Phillips
March 2007- Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
April 2007 - Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
May, 2007 - The Rich Part of Life, by Jim Kokoris
(widowed professor with 2 young sons wins lottery)
June, 2007 - Thirteen Moons: A Novel, by Charles
Frazier (second novel by author of Cold Mountain; epic is set
primarily in North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains)
July, 2007 - The Same Sweet Girls, by Cassandra
King (six southern college friends remain lifelong friends)
August, 2007 - Slammerkin, by Emma Donoghue (historical novel
set in 18th century London)
September 2007: Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue (historical novel set in 18th century London)
October: 2007 Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert (Travelogue of discovery; after a nasty divorce she divides a year among 3 dissimilar countries)
November 2007:Refuge - a Novel by Dot Jackson (Starts in 1929 as a Charleston woman escapes from privileged South; written by a South Carolina author)
December 2007: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Memoir of MSNBC contributor chronicles upbringing at hands of eccentric parents who view homelessness as an adventure)
