Book discussion group
Meetings: Last Tuesday of the month, from March through November (no meetings Dec., Jan., Feb.)
Time: Coffee and conversation 2 p.m.; book discussion 2:30 p.m.
For nearly twenty years, Regional Readers have been reading and discussing books with Appalachian or Kentucky themes, or books written by Appalachian or Kentucky authors. From time to time, an author joins us for our discussion.
The book group is open to all and new members are always welcome. We encourage suggestions for the reading lists.
For more information, contact Judith Kidwell at 606.326.1667 or e-mail judith.kidwell@jsfbooks.com.
May 27, 2025 Book ~
The Truest Pleasure
We enjoyed our meeting yesterday when we discussed The Road From Gap Creek by Robert Morgan.
The May selection is another novel by Robert Morgan — The Truest Pleasure. Set in the wake of the Civil War, the book is a transcendent, critically acclaimed love story by one of America’s finest writers. Ginny and Tom Powell — parents of Muir Powell, Annie Richards’ husband in The Road From Gap Creek — have a practical marriage. Tom wants land to call his own, and Ginny can’t manage her aging father’s farm by herself. They enjoy a mutual attraction that sometimes grows into a deeply gratifying love, but their obsessions end up in the way. A story as old, as true, and as beautiful as the hills in which it unfolds, its illumination of the nature of marriage is timeless and universal.
The Truest Pleasure is available to Regional Readers for $10 per copy.
The book group is open to all and new members are always welcome. We encourage suggestions for the 2025 reading list.