Book Clubs at Christ Church

Non Fiction Book Club

We will take a break over the summer.

So our meeting will be on Tuesday, September 15th to discuss Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490 - 1700 by Diarmaid MacCullough.    The period between 1490 and 1700 was a time when men and women were willing to kill and be killed for their faith.  The Reformation was the most seismic event in European history over the past 1000 years, tearing the medieval world apart. It turned upside down not just European religion, but thought, culture, society, state systems, and personal relations—everything. Nearly everything that followed in European history can be traced back in some way to the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation it provoked. The modern world painfully and dramatically began with the Reformation, and MacCulloch's great history of it is recognized as the best modern account.

While it is a very worthwhile, it is a long book (over 800 pages).  So the summer break will provide all of us with enough time to read it.

Our meetings are in hybrid format, with attendance both in person and by Zoom.  Details on Zoom access will be distributed prior to the meeting.

(jimbaroody@gmail.com).

Women's Book Club

Thursday, October 8 at 7:00 pm

On October 8th at 7pm in the dining room and on Zoom  the Women's Book Club will be discussing Mona's Eyes by Thomas Schlesser.  Ten-year-old Mona and her beloved grandfather have only fifty-two Wednesdays to visit fifty-two works of art and commit to memory “all that is beautiful in the world” before Mona loses her sight forever.  We hope you will join us for a good time of discussion and fellowship.  

For more information please contact Pam Burch, pburch1@rochester.rr.com.