The novel The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea is the focus of the Thursday morning group, meeting at 10 am on September 19th in the Palmer Library. Entertaining and intimate, this book follows an extended Mexican-American family as they gather in San Diego to celebrate life and their complex history. The Monday … Continue reading Start Your Academic Year with UUFSD Book Clubs
The Monday evening Book Club will meet at 7pm on August 12th, discussing News of the World by Paulette Jiles. This well-researched, poetic, yet unsentimental novel follows a man returning a child to her family. She has been “rescued” from the Kiowa Indians after living with them for four years. Thursday morning book club will … Continue reading UUFSD Book Club Readings for August
Monday, June 10th, 7pm American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee In recent decades, conservationists have brought wolves back to the Rockies, igniting a battle over the very soul of the West. Nate Blakeslee tells the gripping story of one of these wolves, O-Six. O-Six is challenged … Continue reading Summer 2019 Reading for UUFSD Book Clubs
On Monday, May 13th at 7pm, we will be discussing My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, the beginning of a very popular series loved by book clubs. On Thursday, May 16th at 10am, we will be discussing Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, a very popular book club pick right now.
Here’s what the UUFSD book clubs are reading in April: On Monday, April 8th, the group will be discussing The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú. This is both a lovely memoir and a compelling story about a young man who becomes a Border Patrol agent and what he experiences … Continue reading UUFSD Book Club News for April
Our Monday evening Book Club will be reading Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, with discussion on March 11th at 7pm. Come and tell us which is your favorite Hemingway book, and why. Our Thursday morning Book Club will be discussing Michelle Obama’s memoir Becoming on March 21st at 10am. You know you want to … Continue reading Read with UUFSD Book Clubs in March
Each of our book clubs is reading a book by Liane Moriarty. Yes, her titles sound like chic lit, but this Australian novelist packs a literary punch that will keep you reading. On Monday, February 11th at 7pm we will discuss “What Alice Forgot”. A young mother loses memory of the last 10 years of … Continue reading Book Clubs go to Australia!
The UUFSD Book Clubs are reading the following: “1Q84”, by popular Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, is set in 1984, and also some other ‘real’ place. Is it supernatural, dystopian, or just disturbing? The daytime group discusses this on Thursday, January 24th at 10am. “I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of … Continue reading Join Us for Lively Book Discussions
The Library Committee is looking for donations of books that other UU congregants would enjoy reading to sell at our book table between and after services. We take fiction, non-fiction, young adult, and children’s books! Our proceeds will go to refinishing the library floor. Please drop off your donations in the library or at the … Continue reading Got Books? Donate to UUFSD!
The UUFSD Book Clubs discuss a mixture of novels, non-fiction, and classics. The daytime group is reading the long novel, 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, and will discuss it on Thursday, January 17th at 10am in the Library here at UUFSD. Our evening group is meeting on Monday, December 10th at 7pm, also in the library, … Continue reading Come for Great Book Discussion Day or Night!
