Thank you to everyone who participated in our discussion in the comments section of the articles on the website and at our meeting over Zoom about Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea.
Now, it is time to select our next two readings!
Each Tuesday, we’ll post a thread here on seniorplanet.org inviting you to comment on each section of the book. Then, during our final week of reading, we’ll host a group discussion over Zoom.
But first! We’ve put together a shortlist of engaging books suggested by our participants and staff. Now it’s up to you to pick the books we’ll read in December and January! Read on for details about each book, then take the poll at the end and tell us: What two books should the Senior Planet Book Club read next?
The book with the highest number of votes will be the December read, and the book with the second highest number of votes will be the January read. We’ll announce the result of the poll next Tuesday, December 12th!
Have any feedback on the book club? Tell us what you think in the comments below!
The Books:
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
“The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author’s girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove…
…” – GoodReads.com
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
“As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together…
…” – GoodReads.com
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
“Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were “thunder.” It was 1994, and in 100 days more than 800,000 people would be murdered in Rwanda and millions more displaced…
…” – GoodReads.com
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
“We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become?In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny…
…” -GoodReads.com
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