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.

Friday, May 29, 2020

Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee

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Pachinko is largely a game of chance, a combination of a pinball and a slot machine, with balls subtly manipulated behind the scenes by...

Saturday, May 16, 2020

Burn Scars, by Patricia Prijatel

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COMMENTS FROM BBB MEMBERS: As I read this beautifully written memoir, it was like having my own sense of loss affirmed by someone w...

Saturday, April 18, 2020

Pigs in Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver

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Pigs in Heaven (1994) is a sequel to Kingsolver’s debut 1988 novel The Bean Trees —in which Taylor, a young woman whose driving ambit...

Friday, March 6, 2020

Songs of America, by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw

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In Songs of America , Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer of Presidents Jon Meacham and Grammy-winning country singer Tim ...

Saturday, February 29, 2020

The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver

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I knew I was going to get some good chuckles out of the book when I read the opening paragraph of Bean Trees: “I ha...

Monday, January 27, 2020

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard

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Dillard’s opening anecdote of the old fighting tom leaping through the window onto her bed at night and kneading her chest while she’s hal...

Saturday, January 11, 2020

Death Comes for the Archbishop

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Considered by critics to be Cather’s best work, Death Comes for the Archbishop is a full-color portrait of the southwestern United Stat...

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