The Book Club

This site celebrates The Book Club, founded in 1982 as a reading group for residents of Chapel Glen, a neighborhood on the far west side of Indianapolis.  Over the years, the club's membership has ebbed and flowed.  Today, there are five members.  The club no longer has any connection to Chapel Glen (only two of the five members live in Chapel Glen), but it remains an active and vibrant community of readers.

The current members of The Book Club (left to right):  Janet, Linda, Jan, Esther and Barbara.   Jan, Barb and Janet were all volunteer parent assistants in the Chapel Glen Elementary School library when Esther was the librarian there.  Two changes occurred in 2004.  Karen, a long-time member, decided to take a leave of absence, and the group invited Linda to join.  She has proved to be a great addition to the Club!

The Club meets ten times per year.  Beginning in 2002, the "season" coincides with the calendar year.  The Club meets once per month beginning in March and continuing through December.  The December meeting is set aside for choosing the next year's books.  The Club experimented with different methods of choosing books but has settled on a system whereby each member chooses two books, for which she is the hostess.  The Club has a policy of not selecting an author more than once.

Link to "World Tour I"--Mississippi

Link to "World Tour II"--Maryland

Books Selected for 2007

Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Henry James, Washington Square
Cathy Day, The Circus in Winter
Tobias Wolff, Old School
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Willie Morris, Taps
J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
Chris Bohjalian, The Double Bind
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King

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