The book club has been going for ten months now, and I thought it might be of interest to recap where we’ve been. Here’s the history so far:

• January: Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
• February: My Stroke of Insight (Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D)
• March: Mark Twain trio:
  Letters From the Earth
  Extracts from Adam’s Diary
  Eve’s Diary

• April: Ninety-Five Theses (Martin Luther)
• May: The Plague (Albert Camus)
• June: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
• July: Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett)
• August: Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl) and
  Existentialism and Human Emotions (Jean-Paul Sartre)

• September: The Shack (William P. Young)
• October: Only a Theory (Kenneth Miller, Ph.D.)

And next:

• November: Candide (Voltaire)

I’m pretty pleased with the variety and richness of the material we’ve covered. My only regret is that we have not found more people who are both interested and willing to come out on a Saturday morning.

As regular members know, I maintain a page of reference material at http://www.swhi.net/~steveg/StNick/, including a “Suggested Reading List.” I hope it is understood that this is not simply a list of books we have read or may all read together as a group in coming months; some of them, at least, will appeal to a few members but not others, and some (I hope) to members of the St. Nicholas community who are not joining our Saturday morning group at all. All of them are (I believe) potentially of interest anyway. Additions to the list are always welcome.

Also on the main page, I have posted some extra reference materials as to some of the topics we’ve covered. Check back now and then for items related to books we have read or are going to read.

– Steve G