A book club for Immanuel people and neighbors from the area and beyond in order to share thoughts and ideas about books we've read. We often focus on memoir as a genre, reading and discussing real-life stories of people in various life situations and grappling with challenges. 

Our book for February: The Yellow Bird Sings (Jennifer Rosner)

Meeting monthly on the 4th Monday of the month either in person or by Zoom.  (No December meeting)

Contact Melissa Fischer (locustfarm@gmail.com) if interested in joining us.

Books we have read:

The Yellow Bird Sings (Jennifer Rosner)

The Covenant of Water (Abraham Verghese)

The Women (Kristin Hannah)

Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver)

The Diamond Eye (Kate Quinn)

Same Kind of Different as Me (Ron Hall & Denver Moore)

The Personal Librarian (Marie Benedict & Victoria Murray)

The Spy and the Traitor (Ben Macintyre)

Winter Garden (Kristin Hannah)

The Rose Code (Kate Quinn)

Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt)

Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese)

A Soul as Cold as Frost (Jennifer Kropf)

Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus)

The Book Woman's Daughter  (Kim Michele Richardson)

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Kim Michele Richardson)

The Surgeon’s Daughter (Audrey Blake)

The Girl in His Shadow (Audrey Blake)

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Elisabeth Tova Bailey)

On the Edge of Nowhere (James Huntington)

Winterdance by Gary Paulsen

Joan of Arc (Mark Twain)

A Three Dog Life (Abigail Thomas)

Defying Jihad (Esther Ahmad)

Once Upon a Wardrobe (Patti Callahan)

A Piece of the World (Christina Baker Kline)

Shadow of the Workhouse (Jennifer Worth)

Call the Midwife (Jennifer Worth)

Yes Sister, No Sister (Jennifer Craig)

Thunder Dog (Michael Hingson)

An Irish Country Doctor (Patrick Taylor)

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (Donald Miller)

Dog Flowers (Danielle Geller)

Bear in the Backseat (Carolyn Jourdan & Kim DeLozier)

London’s Number One Dog-Walking Agency: A Memoir (Kate MacDougall)

Memories Before and After the Sound of Music : An Autobiography(Agathe Von Trapp)

The Leap of the Deer (Herbert O’Driscoll)

Can't Nothing Bring Me Down (Ida Keeling)