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.

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Who Ate the First Oyster? By Cody Cassidy

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How did humans get the way we are? Pants-wearing, horseback-riding, disease-fighting jokesters, some of whom eat oysters? Cody Cassidy has a...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce

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The characters and events in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry are indeed unlikely: Harold makes a spontaneous decision to walk the leng...
Friday, March 26, 2021

The Likeness, by Tana French

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“Some nights, if I’m sleeping on my own, I still dream about Whitethorn House.”   The first line of Tana French’s The Likeness tells you muc...
Monday, March 1, 2021

Running Away To Home, by Jennifer Wilson

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  A dinner of door mouse (it tastes like chicken), nights on an ancient futon in a randomly finished attic, a bathroom door that won’t shut,...
Friday, February 12, 2021

In The Woods, by Tana French

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Tana French’s debut novel,   In the Woods,   is fascinating, complex and ultimately leaves its different readers with many different impress...
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...
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