The St. Peter’s Book Club has been meeting since October, 2013. The club meets every two months on the third Tuesday at 1:30pm in the Cry Room, to the far right from the main entrance.
About the Book Club
Meetings are very informal and are open to all. We each talk about whether we liked the book and why we liked it. Usually books that we have read have discussion questions that are available online from either the author or the publisher, and we pick from those questions and discuss them. These questions vary from why a character did what they did, whether the story can be applied to today’s world, questions about the dialog of the book, and others. These discussions are always laid back and fun. If members have not had a chance to finish the book, it’s okay! At every meeting, the group decides on the book to be read at the next meeting.
January’s Book
An Invisible Thread is a true story of an 11-year-old panhandler, a busy sales executive, and an unlikely meeting with destiny. Laura was a successful ad sales rep in Manhattan. He was a homeless eleven-year-old panhandler on the street. He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But then something stopped her in her tracks and she went back. And she continued to go back, again and again. They met up nearly every week for years and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades. Join St. Peter’s Book Club as they meet on Tuesday, January 17 at 1:30pm to discuss An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski.
Past Books
Many of the books that have been read by the Book Club can be found in St. Peter’s Library. The books the Book Club has enjoyed are:
- The Confession, by John Grisham (October, 2013)
- Killing Jesus, by Bill O’Reilly (November, 2013)
- The Light Between Oceans, by M. L. Stedman (January, 2014)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot (March 2014)
- The Kitchen Boy, a Novel of the Last Tsar, by Robert Alexander (May 2014)
- The Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline (July 2014)
- Orange is the New Black, by Piper Kerman (September 2014)
- Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd (November 2014)
- Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver (January 2015)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith (March 2015)
- People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks (June 2015)
- All the Light We Cannot See, by Philip Doerr (September 2015)
- To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (November 2015)
- Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee (January, 2016)
- The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown (March, 2016)
- The Nightengale, by Kristin Hannah (May, 2016)
- A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman (July, 2016)
- Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann (September, 2016)
- The Traitor’s Wife, by Allison Pataki (November, 2016)
- An Invisible Thread, by Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski (February, 2016)
