INCARNATION BOOK CLUB
Please join the Incarnation Book Club (IBC) for fellowship and book club discussions. The club is open to all members of Incarnation, their friends and family. Meetings start at 7:00 PM at the church usually on the last Thursday of the month. Please join us, even if you haven’t read this month’s book. The next book discussions have been scheduled for:
MEETING DATE BOOK AUTHOR
July 31, 2008 Some People, Some Other Place J. California Cooper
August 28, 2008 The Friday Night Knitting Club Kate Jacobs
September 25, 2008 Seen It All, Done The Rest Pearl Cleage
Contact Sharon Preston-Harris at (678) 715-8119 or (770) 330-3419 (cell) for more information. Please bring your favorite treat to share.
Incarnation Book Club Reading List Book Reviews
Some People, Some Other Place
J. California Cooper
Some People, Some Other Place tells the story of Eula Too and the inhabitants of Dream Street in a town named Place. Eula Too is the daughter of dirt poor sharecroppers. Her lot in life appears sealed when at the age of five she is recruited by her mother to help keep the house and raise the children. Eula Too's life changes when she is befriended by Miss Hart, a neighbor and former school teacher, who teaches her to read. With reading comes dreams and Eula Too decides at the age of fifteen that she can no longer live the cut-off, deprived life she's been born into. Full of hope and the desire for a life better than the one she has, Eula Too set out for Chicago and the possibilities that the city offers.
*Note: This book is available at the bookstore in the West End Mall for $5.00.
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kate Jacobs
Between running her Manhattan yarn shop, Walker & Daughter, and raising her 12-year-old biracial daughter Dakota, Georgia Walker is grateful for her Friday Night Knitting Club. Her friends are happy to escape their lives too, even for just a few hours. When Dakota's father reappears and a former friend contacts Georgia, Georgia's orderly existence begins to unravel. Her support system is her staff and the knitting club that meets at her store every Friday night, though each person has dramas of her own brewing.
Seen It All, Done The Rest
Pearl Cleage
Josephine was the toast of Europe and home was on the stages of the world where she spent thirty years establishing herself as one of the finest actresses of her generation. Josephine lived above and beyond the reach of conventional definitions of who and what an African American diva could be, and her legions of loyal fans loved her for it. She had a perfect life but then a war she didn’t fully understand turned everything upside down. Suddenly she was the target of angry protests aimed at the country she had never really felt was her own. She returns to Atlanta to spend time with her granddaughter Zora, recently undone by her peripheral role in a splashy murder case, and to check on her family house. Josephine is hoping to keep Zora's trust while steering her away from Zora's father's tragic bout with alcohol. After seeing the cracked-out wreckage of her stretch of Atlanta's West End, Josephine also embarks on a plan with four other women to fix up her vandalized manse, a plan that includes the squatter she discovers there, Victor Causey.
