So the ol’ book club is at it again, with a longer than usual book for a longer than usual time period. Enter the challenge read, where we’ll have approximately 3 months to read a sci-fi classic, “Dune” by Frank Herbert… Read On
October means Halloween, and Halloween means something thematic (monsters, anyone?) for HYP book club. “My Favorite Thing is Monsters” is a graphic novel by Emil Ferris… Read On
“State of Wonder”, by award-winning and bestselling author Anne Patchett, is the story of pharmacologist Marina Singh, who journeys to Brazil to bring back information about seemingly miraculous drug research being conducted there by her former teacher… Read On
May’s book is “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett. It’s about a pair of identical black sisters in the south who run away at 16. One ends up coming back and raising a black daughter in the town she tried to escape; the other passes for white and conceals it from her white husband… Read On
It’s been a while since we’ve been to movie theaters, so it’s been a while since we’ve done a crossover discussion at the ol’ HYP Book Club. March’s book will remedy that with “The Queen’s Gambit” by Walter Tevis. Yes, THAT Queen’s Gambit… Read On
February is Black History Month, and Book Club is reading “Between the World and Me” by the supremely gifted and creative Ta-Nehisi Coates (“Black Panther,” “We Were Eight Years in Power,” among others). It’s a long letter to his son about being Black in the United States… Read On
Every so often, we at the ol’ book club like to dig into something a little bit bigger than a monthly book. Okay, a lot bigger. So we came up with the challenge read, whereby we read a much longer work over the course of six months… Read On
The time is the 1970s; the place, small-town Ohio. Two Chinese American parents are determined that their favorite daughter fulfill the dreams they couldn’t pursue. But she’s found dead in the local lake, and the bonds that were keeping the family together are suddenly frayed… Read On
Continuing with the theme of young protagonists, February’s book is Ender’s Game, the celebrated sci-fi story by Orson Scott Card… Read On
It’s a new year, so book club is doing something new – reading off a list on Goodreads (well, for at least our first two books)… Read On