Trinity Book Group
Great books and the people that love them.
What’s better than curling up with a good book? Chatting about it with friends! Since the early 1980s, the Trinity Book Group has met 8 (or more) times a year for discussion and fellowship around our shared love of reading. We meet at each other’s homes about once every six weeks, and read and discuss some seven books each year. Our selections include fiction, nonfiction, biography, and others. All are welcome. Newcomers are especially welcome!
Meetings 2023-24
August 30 /4:00/ The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles and their Secret World War, Stephen Kinzer
October 11/ 4:00 /The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams
December 5 / 7:30 Zoom /The Secret Book of Flora Lea, Patti Callaghan Henry
January 16 / 7:30 Zoom /Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
February 27 / 7:30 Zoom /Horse, Geraldine Brooks,
March 25 / 4:00 / Paradox Lake of Memory, Kate Johns Walton
May 21 / 4pm / The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City, Nicholas Dawidoff
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Ready to join? Need more information? Contact coordinator Jenny Briggs using the form below.
About us
We are a random, self-selected gathering of avid readers and conversationalists, with no particular political, social or religious agenda. We are mostly parishioners of Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green in New Haven, Connecticut. Some of us are educators and librarians; others are lawyers, psychologists, social workers, architects, doctors, art historians and scientists …the list of professions is endless, but you definitely don’t have to be a professional to join our group – you only have to be especially interested in the good life of reading and talking – and, on occasion, of also sharing in good food and drink.
What kinds of books do we read?
We read bestsellers (The Secret Life of Bees; The Poisonwood Bible; Cold Mountain); we read classics (Dinesen’s Out of Africa); we read detective novels and science fiction; we read biographies and histories; we read about the Bible (Elaine Pagels’ Beyond Belief); we read almost anything that we collectively find interesting.
How do we select the books we read each year?
Once a year we meet as a group to propose and evaluate the next year’s selections. After an energetic hour or two of contemplation and debate, we vote on the next year’s list, and come up not only with a selection of books but also with a selection of meeting dates and book group hosts. It’s a somewhat unpredictable process, but we always manage to muddle through in good spirits. After all, what could be more – or less – serious than a book group’s selection of readings?
Nonetheless, each year we are further edified by our book group friends and colleagues. We will have read books that we neither knew about nor anticipated; we will have seen and learned more than we expected; we will have extended ourselves and enjoyed the experience.