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We choose our books several months ahead. Our current list is certainly varied. Hopefully something for everyone here.
October 4th
This month 's book has been chosen for us by the Fireside Book Group in Red Deer, Canada. 'The Day the Falls Stood Still' is the debut novel by Canadian author Cathy Marie Buchanan. A story of love, social change, and hydro-electricity.
November 1st A Classic Science Fiction novel, depicting a world where books are burned rather than read and where firemen don't put fires out they start them. Guy
Montag is a fireman, but not the type of fireman we know. He is a
fireman whose job it is  to start fires, not put them out. Not once did
he question his job, never did he wonder why they burned the books
instead of read them. He never inquired as to why they were illegal,
feared, and considered "evil". All he knew was that he loved his
midnight runs, and he took pleasure in watching the flames consume the
pages of books, burning them into nonexistence. Yes, for Guy Montag,
life was good. Then he met seventeen-year-old Clarisse McClellan.
Clarise told him about a time when firemen, instead of starting them,
put fires out. She told him of a time when people read the books, not
burned them. A time when people were not afraid. Clarisse made Montag do
something he hadn't really done before: think. Montag thought and
thought, and he realized that he wasn't happy at all. Then Montag met a
professor who told him of a future where all people could really think
and read in peace. Suddenly, Guy Montag knew what he had to do...
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is the story of an African American woman and her struggle to live life her life independently and truthfully, and of the men she has relationships with over many years.  When Janie returns to Eatonville, the whole town seems to
turn out to watch her walk down the street by herself and
up to her own house. She had disappeared some years
before, with a young man named Tea Cake. The
townspeople wonder why he has not returned with her. In
fact, the town is viciously curious, but only Pheoby Watson
cares enough about Janie to go and visit her, bringing some
dinner and lending a friendly ear. Janie decides to tell her
friend Pheoby the whole story of her life.
January 3rd
We begin the New Year with a suitably chilly novel about love, crime and the English Seaside. Brighton Rock is the story of a would be gangster and petty criminal and the lives he ruins. Shot through with Catholic guilt, mortality and revenge, Brighton Rock is Graham Green's enduring classic of pain.
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