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ECW Book Club The ECW Book Club books and meeting dates for the coming year have been selected by Pat Biggers and Liz Meador. They will be meeting on the second Tuesdays in October, December, February and April at 7 p.m. in the church library. This is a change from the past when they met on Wednesdays. They will discuss Three Gospels by Reynolds Price on Tuesday, October 13; Lights on a Ground of Darkness by Ted Kooser on Tuesday, December 8; Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout on Tuesday, February 8; and Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis and Fritz Eichenberg on Tuesday, April 13. All books are available in paperback. There will be reminders before each gathering and book study questions will usually be provided in advance. If you would like a description of each book, there is a description sheet for you to take with you. If you have any questions, please see Pat Biggers or Liz Meador by e-mailing parish@stfrancisgoldboro.org.
ST. FRANCIS ECW BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP 2009-2010 Tuesday
13 October Price has, for more than 20 years, studied
Koine (common-language) Greek and, while teaching at Duke University,
led seminars on the Gospels of Mark and John. Both experiences inform
this three-part collection of two "plain translations"
of the New Testament texts and an original modern Gospel. The introductions
to each section convey Price's enthusiasm for the life of Jesus,
insights gleaned from his long study of the scriptures and some
of the challenges he faced in bringing these ancient texts to life
for contemporary readers. Tuesday
8 December Like the yellow, pink, and blue irises that had been transplanted from house to house over the years, the stories of poet Ted Kooser’s family had been handed down until, as his mother lay ill and dying, he felt an urgency to write them down. With a poet’s eye for detail, the author captures the beauty of the landscape and the vibrancy of his mother’s Iowa family, the Mosers, in precise, evocative language. Ted Kooser is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and former U.S. poet laureate. Discussion led by Liz Meador. Tuesday
8 February Elizabeth Strout won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for this linked set of thirteen stories set on the coast of Maine. But don’t look here for lighthouses and quaint charm, for Lake Wobegon with lobsters. Strout’s big, blunt heroine, Olive Kitteridge, is tough, wounded, and wounding. She’s a force of nature, and nature creates and destroys---and endures, here in the face of infidelity, suicide, hostage-taking and life’s bewilderment. Note from Pat: If you
don't have time to read the whole book, try to read at least these
chapters in order to follow the discussion: Pharmacy, The Piano
Player, A Little Burst, Security and River. Tuesday
13 April Lewis's short novel of love, faith, and transformation (both good and ill) offers the reader much food for thought in a compact, impressively rich story. Less heavy-handedly Christian-allegorical than Narnia, Till We Have Faces gives us characters who remind us of people we know facing choices and difficulties we recognize. A deceptively simple book that takes on new depth with each rereading, it was reportedly Lewis’s own favorite of all his works of fiction. Need discussion leader.
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