ONLINE: A Zoom invitation link will be sent one day before each class session begins.
Using prepared questions and our own observations, the discussion each month will explore a book from current best-seller lists. Please read Goodnight Irene before the first class. The facilitators will send a list of discussion questions for each book to all registrants prior to each Book Club session.
Selected books for the Spring 2024 term are:
April Goodnight Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea
Historical Fiction Published in 2023, 407 pages
World War II chronicle of women's heroic frontline service in the Red Cross.
May The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Fiction Published in 2017, 368 pages
Tale of a mobile-library van running between the villages of Ireland's west coast.
June Come Fly the World by Julia Cooke
Biography Published in 2020, 288 pages
Life of five Pan Am stewardesses during the Vietnam war.
Kathleen and William Hillegas are long-time members of both Elderwise and the Book Club. Both are avid readers, and look forward to a lively exchange of ideas, opinions, and interpretations.
