Favorite Reads: Seniors' Book Club

Our Seniors' Book Club met in December for coffee and Christmas sweets. Instead of our usual discussion of a title, each member brought along a personal "favorite read" from the past year to share with the group. The list was so diverse and interesting, that we thought it should be shared with everyone!
Along with these holiday reading suggestions, we send our Seasons Best Wishes to all!

Good Grief by Lolly Winston. 2002.

A brilliantly funny and heartwarming debut about a young woman who stumbles, then fights to build a new life after the death of her husband.

Digging to America by Anne Tyler. 2006.

Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport. The couples, from different cultural backgrounds, are both awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. Their meeting destines them to a lasting friendship.

The novel brims with subtle, funny, and tender observations that cast a penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in.

Color of Water by James McBride. 1996.

This is the true life account of Ruth McBride Jordan, a self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut.

Bad Dogs Have More Fun by John Grogan. 2007.

Selected writings on family, animals and life from the Philadelphia Inquirer, written in the delightful style of the author's bestselling book "Marley and Me".

David Golder by Irene Nemirovsky. 2007.

Written by the acclaimed author of "Suite Francaise", this novel, first published in 1929, is a brilliant portrait of the frenzied capitalism of the 1920's and a mature story of an elderly Jewish businessman who has sold his soul.

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. 2003.

This novel, by a Pullitzer-prize winning author, is about the immigrant experience. It takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel. 2007 edition.

This extraordinary story of survival, by Canadian author Yann Martel, is now available in an illustrated edition.