Book Groups Update By Sharon Anderson
If you wish to see what others are reading, or get ideas for your book group or yourself, please refer to the “books” page under “Activities” on our
branch website (https://sacramento-ca.aauw.net/bookgroups/).
Each book group has its own tab, by book group number. (These book group numbers correlate with page 6 of the branch Membership Directory.) On each list, the meeting days, times and coordinator are listed.
Top 4 Favorite Books Read in 2024 – by Book Group 8 (coordinator Diana Squire):
- The Personal Librarian, by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
- Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist, by Jennifer Wright
- Horse: A Novel, by Geraldine Brooks
- Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World, by Lesley M. M. Blum
March Book Groups
Book Group 1:
Long Bright River, by Liz Moore, on March 13; coordinator is Susanna Mullen
Book Group 3:
Another Appalachia, by Neema Avashi, on March 26; coordinator is Carolyn Meeker
Book Group 4:
Epitaph for a Peach, by David Mas Masumoto, on March 12; coordinator is Pat Morehead
Book Group 8:
Such a Fun Age, by Kelley Reid, on March 24; coordinator is Diana Squire
Book Group 10:
The Personal Librarian, by Marie Benedict, on March 20; coordinator is Sandi Schoenman
Book Group 12:
The Kitchen House, by Kathleen Grissom, on March 6; coordinator is Linda Cook
Living Our Mission of Equity By Charmen Goehring
We hope you will join us in a monthly equity conversation where we look at our own biases, seek actions we can take to attract diversity to our branch and become better people in the process. Each month, we read a section of our selected book then meet to discuss what we have learned, along with exploring other issues related to race and equity. We meet the first
Wednesday of each month from 7 to 8 PM on Zoom.
The Zoom meeting code is 737 420 3780 or you can join using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7374203780
We will discuss our current book, Subversive Southerner:
Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South, on March 5 at 7 p.m. We will discuss chapters 9-Finish. If you have questions and to RSVP, please email Charmen at charminme@yahoo.com.
We will start our next book in April. We’ve selected Erasing History, by Jason Stanley. It is so timely for our current moment. Please join us!