Welcome to Christ The King Parish. We are a dynamic community in Music City's Belmont/Hillsboro neighborhood.
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The book club meets the third Thursday of the month from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. in the Cursillo Room of the Parish Center. All are welcome. For more information, contact Krysta Jane Giacobone krystajane@comcast.net.
2018 Reading List January 18th The Chaperone Laura Moriarty February 15th Hillbilly Elegy JD Vance March 15th Lilac Girls Martha Hall Kelly April 19th Fair and Tender Ladies Lee Smith May 17th Still Life Louise Penny June 21st Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane Lisa See July 19th The Orphans of Race Point Patry Francis August 16th The Chilfren Act Ian McEwan September 20th Run with the Horsemen Farrol Sams Carolyn May 17th Still Life Louise Penny Pam June 21st Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane Lisa See Connie July 19th The Orphans of Race Point Patry Francis Aubrie August 16th The Chilfren Act Ian McEwan Linda September 20th Run with the Horsemen Farrol Sams Priscilla
2017
January: Dimestore, written by Lee Smith: Grace
February: When Breath Becomes Air, written by Paul Kalanithi: Nancy
March: The Nightingale, written by Kristin Hannah: Ellie
April: Olive Kitteridge, written by Elizabeth Strout: Arlene
May: Prayers for Sale, written by Sandra Dallas: Priscilla
June: Crow Lake, written by Mary Lawson: Mary Susan
July: The Elegance of the Hedgehog, written by Muriel Barbery: Connie
August: Olive Kittredge written by Elizabeth Strout: Arlene Stone
September: Planning Meeting
October: The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell
BOOKS READ TO DATE
Organizational meeting: May 2014- June: Life After Life by Jill McCorkle
- July: Ordinary Grace by William Kent
- August: Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler
- September : The All of It by Jeanette Haien
- October: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- November: Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
- December: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
2015
1. January: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
2. February: Claire of the Sea Light, by Edwidge Danticat
3. March: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
4. April: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
5. May: The Book of Ages, by Jill Lepore
6. June: When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
7. July: If Today Be Sweet, by Thrity Umrigar
8. August: A Spool of Blue Thread by Ann Tyler
9. September: Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng
10. October: The Orphan Train by Christine Baker Kline
11. November: The Antagonist, by Lynn Coady
12. December Stiff, by Mary Roach
2016
1. January: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
2. February: The Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen
3. March: The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
4. April: The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
5. May: Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
6. July: The Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindberg
7. July: Planning Meeting
8 August: The Burgess Boys written by Elizabeth Strout: Krysta
9. September: Digging to America written by Anne Tyler: Carolyn
10.October: Run, written by Ann Patchett: Ebbie
11. November: Light Between Oceans written by M.L. Stedman: Colleen
12. December: Susie will select two short stories to read from Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies. Lord willing, and if all are interested: I’m happy to host in our home: if it’s agreeable, we will have yummy potluck dishes.