Book Club on Zoom

Our theme is literary non-fiction by women, though we have been known to read a novel or something by a man. Our meetings are informal and you are welcome even if you did not finish the book!

Some of our favorite books have included: Alex and Me, by Irene Pepperberg (a scientist writes about the amazing parrot she worked with for 28 years); Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi (an Iranian professor of English Literature writes about her experience of the Revolution and her belief in the importance of English literature); Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel (an illustrated autobiography, comic book style); Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (another “graphic novel” by another Iranian woman). We sometimes go on outings as well, including trips to see movies including “Julie and Julia” and “Hidden Figures.”

Email info@cpae.org to register for the link to join the Zoom workshop.

Books for 2023:

JAN 17:  Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, by Anne Lamott  

FEB  21: A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story, by Linda Sue Park   

MARCH 21:  The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori, by Cristina De Stefano

APRIL 18: Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, by Laila Lalami

MAY 16: The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras 

JUNE 20:  Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the wisdom of the forest, by Suzanne Simard

JULY 18: The neuroscience of you: how every brain is different and how to understand yours, by Chantel Spring Prat 

AUGUST  15: Did I Say That Out Loud?: Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them, by Kristin van Ogtrop

SEPT 19: The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami

Oct 17: House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family, by Hadley Freeman. Jewish History. 

Nov 21: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, By Tiya Miles. African-American History. 

Dec 19: Origin: A Genetic History of the America, by Jennifer Raff. Anthropology.