Book Club
The Book Club meets once a month at 10am (on the 3rd Friday of the month) in the Church Library to review and discuss books of high interest. Everyone is invited to attend.
The club chairmen are: Peter Philip (201-666-0105) and Jon Sterling (201-967-7950).
Book Club News
The next Book Club meeting is scheduled for FRIDAY JUNE 20, 2025 at 10:00am in the Church Library.
At the meeting Jon Sterling has volunteered to read and analyze two poems by Ernst Hemingway, "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" and "Soldier Home" from the book "In Our Time".
In Our Time is Ernest Hemingway's first collection of short stories, published in 1925. Its title is derived from the English Book of Common Prayer, "Give peace in our time, O Lord". it consists of 15 short stories.
The stories' themes – of alienation, loss, grief, separation, include descriptions of acts of war, bullfighting and current events. The collection is known for its spare language and oblique depiction of emotion, through a style known as Hemingway's iceberg theory.
This edition of In Our Time is considered one of Hemingway's early masterpieces.