Books, Brews and Banter

Grab your cup of coffee or tea and join the members of St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in West Des Moines, Iowa, as we talk about some of our favorite books.

Saturday, June 23, 2018

Ragtime, by E.L. Doctorow

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Published in 1975, Ragtime is an amazing tapestry capturing the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century & WW1, whe...

Thursday, June 7, 2018

Daughter of Fortune, by Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende is known for creating strong, smart, passionate, and occasionally eccentric female characters. In Daughter of Fortune , t...

Monday, June 4, 2018

My Antonia, by Willa Cather

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We had one of our most engaged discussions ever while reading Willa Cather’s classic, My Antonia . In the book’s epigraph, Cather quotes ...

Friday, April 27, 2018

TATTOOS ON THE HEART, by Gregory Boyle

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In this uplifting and intimate memoir, Jesuit priest Gregory Boyle recounts his three decades of working with “homies” in the barrios of...

Monday, April 16, 2018

A Gentleman in Moscow By Amor Towles

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By the end of this novel, I admired the amount of information packed into this title. First, it places us in Moscow, a place som...

Saturday, February 10, 2018

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

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Everything I Never Told You is the story of a Chinese-American family and how they try so hard to do well and do good. But first one thi...

Monday, January 22, 2018

The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writer's Life, by Amy Tan

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Amy Tan’s mother believed in ghosts and curses and lived her life expecting bad luck. A typical maternal warning: "Don't ever ...

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