The CVUU Book Lovers’ Group meets regularly via Zoom for book chats on novels (historical fiction, science fiction, and other genres) and non-fiction. The group provides intellectual stimulation and builds relationships.

Our next discussion is on Saturday, March 23rd is “Tom Lake” by Ann Patchett. this novel is both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born.

Contact organizer Vicki C. at landline (757) 638-0737 or Cell phone (757) 469-1397 vickicaminer@gmail.com or contact the C-VUU office, 757-627-5371 for more information. All are welcome! (The discussions are great!)

And for more book talk, try out the Facebook group CVUU’s Bookworms. It’s a private group on Facebook, set up in January 2020 to share news of CVUU’s two book clubs, The Novel Ideas Book Club and the CVUU Book Lovers.

If book clubs are not your thing, but books are, you do not have to be a member of either book club to join the group! The page is chock-full of book talk and fellowship outside of scheduled reads and news of meetups.  

Find them on Facebook and request to join by clicking here: CVUU’S BOOKWORMS