WTB Book Club

Since one of WTB's goals is to educate ourselves, getting involved in the WTB Book Club is a great way to do that. Many of the books focus on social issues or the impact of faith in our world today. You'll learn a lot from the perspectives of women of many faiths and traditions. Plus, it's just a great way to get to know others involved in WTB.

You don't have to come every month, but come when you can. Call Jennifer Roberts Crittenden at 633-2817 and let her know you're interested. She'll put you on an email list with information about the books and locations for the discussions. You'll read the book beforehand and then discuss it at an informal gathering at one woman's home.

Here are many of the books the group has read:

A History of God: The 4000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan

Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeen Aslam

Nickel and Dimed: on Not Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

North Star Conspiracy by Miriam Grace Mondfredo (from Rochester, NY)

Nine Parts of Desire, The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks

Pathologies of Power by Paul Farmer

Poetry by Mary Oliver

Pretty Birds by Scott Simon

Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee Influences on Early American Feminists by Sally Roesch Wagner

Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong

Terrorist by John Updike

The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad

The Faith Club:  A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew - Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner

The Good Heart: a Buddhist Perspective on the teachings of Jesus by the Dalai Lama

The Gospel of John in the Light of Indian Mysticism by Ravi Ravindra

The Impossible Will Take a Little While: a Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear , edited by Paul Rogat Loeb

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal.

The Tent of Abraham:  Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Sister Joan Chittister, and Murshid Saadi Shakur Chishti

Us and Them: A History of Intolerance in America by Jim Carnes, Herbert Tauss, and Harry A. Blackmun

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning    by Chris Hedges

We Are the Ones We have Been Waiting For by Alice Walker (essays/meditations)