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, January 15, 2021

Braving the Wilderness, by Brene Brown

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It may be worth noting up front that our group read   Braving the Wilderness   in January of 2021, with our first of two discussions taking ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Peace Like a River, by Leif Enger

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Leif Enger’s   Peace Like a River  is a delightful and discussable novel. The story of the Land family— Jeremiah, Davy, Reuben, and Swede—is...
Monday, November 30, 2020

Climbing Lessons, by Tim Bascom

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Members of St. Timothy’s Brew, Books and Banter book club had the great opportunity to visit again with author Tim Bascom, this time to disc...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

The Overstory, by Richard Powers

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This is a remarkable book, a feat of imagination, research, imagery, and character development. The winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in fic...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah

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When a book begins with a nine-year-old getting pushed out of a moving bus by his mother and ends up twenty years later with him hosting The...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett

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Patchett is a connoisseur of imperfect characters who are compelling mixes of the saintly, the clueless, the wise and loving, the selfish an...
Friday, September 11, 2020

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession and the Natural History Heist of the Century, by Kirk Wallace Johnson

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Is this book autobiography?     Memoir?     Is it the story of a quest for the answers to an absorbing crime story with an uncertain ending?...
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