Join the Ashland Book Club on the third Sunday of each month in Room 111 at 4 p.m. Listed below are the books we have discussed and those for the upcoming months.

At Ashland, books are chosen by the group and range from drama, fiction, controversial, biographies, literature, pop culture phenomenons to the down right hilarious. Discussions are led by volunteer group members, some even bring snacks related to the book that month. (Have you had “potato peel pie?” )  Please check the website calendar to be sure of meeting times or call the church office 803-798-5350 x 14

Why a Book Club?
The first book-of-the-month club started in the late 1800s at a Methodist Camp at Lake Chautauqua in Eastern New York. The Rev. John H. Vincent began a book club with members and encouraged them to form discussion groups in their homes and churches

2010

January - Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman by Alice Steinbach

February 21: The Last time They Met by Anita Shreve

March 21: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

April 18: La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith

May 16: The Help by Kathryn Stockett

June 20: Abigail Adams by Woody Holton

July: no book enjoy your summer

August 22: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (teen fiction selection) (the sequel to this book is Catching Fire)

September 19 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson

October 17 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

November 21 - The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

December - Happy Holidays!

2011

anuary 16 - South of Broad by Pat Conroy

February 20 - One Day by David Nicholls

 

2009
January 2009 – The Shack by William Young
February 2009 – Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith
March 2009- Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
April 2009 – Story of Edgar Sawtelle by   Wroblewski
May 2009 – Little Heathens: Hard time, High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great  Depression
by Mildren Armstrong Kalish
June 2009- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Relin
July 2009 - Meet somewhere and pick our next books
August 2009 - Orpheus Lost by Janette Turner Hospital
September 2009 - Serena by Ron Rash
October 2009 - Home, by Marilynne Robinson
November 2009 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

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 2008- The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
May 2008 – Leap of Faith, by Queen Noor
June 2008 – The Touch, by Colleen McCullough , from the author of “the Thornbirds”
Skip July 2008
August 2008 –The Innocent Man, by John Grisham
September2008 – Good Dog.Stay., by Anna Quindlen
October 2008 – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
November 2008 – Twilight by Stephanie Meyers