Book Club

Love to read? In the grand tradition of passing on a great book to a friend, we invite you to share and discuss your reading experience with fellow book lovers. Our Book Club meets on the third Thursday of each month at 10am in The Other Cup, September through May. Even if you haven’t read the book we’re discussing, you may still enjoy the conversation. You are welcome to arrive at 9:30am for fellowship; our discussion begins at 10am. All are invited to participate in our book club: a beloved group that has been a part of life at Saint Barnabas for over 30 years. Read below for this month’s book reading. Questions? Contact the church office.

See our 2024/2025 schedule and reading list by CLICKING HERE.

For this session, we have changed our book schedule. We will be discussing “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway, NOT “Braiding Sweetgrass.”

May 16 – Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (nonfiction / Ecology)

May 16 – The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 

The Sun Also Rises is the first novel by the American writer Ernest Hemingway, following his experimental novel-in-fragments In Our Time (short story collection) (1925). It portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona and watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is now “recognized as Hemingway’s greatest work,” and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel. The novel was published in the United States in October 1926, by Scribner’s. A year later, Jonathan Cape published the novel in London under the title Fiesta. It remains in print.

 (Source: Wikipedia)

Questions? Please email Karen Talus.