2007-2008 Season
{est. 2005}
The Immacolata Book Club reads classic and contemporary books of fiction and non-fiction through the eyes of our Catholic faith. Please join us on the 2nd Wednesday of every other month to discuss the books that we've read.
All meetings will be held in the Church Meeting Room.
Book List
September 12, 2007 - 7pm Immediately Following the CRHP Meeting
The Poisonwood Bible
By: Barbara Kingsolver
" The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it--from garden seeds to Scripture--is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa. " - read more
November 14, 2007 - 7pm
Traveling Mercies
By: Anne Lamott
"I don't think of Traveling Mercies as a book about religion at all, but rather as a handbook, or maybe a sort of owner's manual, for people who are trying to live faithfully: which is to say, learning to cooperate with grace--even (or especially) when real life rears its very confusing head." - read more
January 16, 2008 - 7pm
The Story of a Soul
By: St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"Therese died when she was 24, after having lived as cloistered Carmelite for less than ten years. She never went on missions, never founded a religious order, never performed great works. The only book of hers, published after her death, was an brief edited version of her journal called "Story of a Soul." (Collections of her letters and restored versions of her journals have been published recently.) But within 28 years of her death, the public demand was so great that she was canonized." - read more
March 12, 2008 - 7pm
The Dream
By: Emile Zola
"Le rêve [The Dream] is a simple tale of the orphan Angélique Marie (b. 1851), adopted by a husband-and-wife team of ecclesiastic embroiderers in the cathedral town of Beaumont, 30 leagues from Paris. Angélique is enthralled by the tales of the saints and martyrs — particularly Saint Agnes and Saint George — as told in the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine. Her dream is to be saved by a handsome prince and to live happily ever after, in the same way the virgin martyrs have their faiths tested on earth before being rescued and married to Jesus in heaven." - read more
May 14, 2008 - 7pm
Pearl
By: Mary Gordon
"Mary Gordon marches forward with a stunning exploration of revisited themes, such as Catholic-Jewish heritage, trouble with fathers, and the nature of personal responsibility." - read more
