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.
April 30, 2024 Book ~
40 Acres and No Mule by Janice Holt Giles
The April selection is 40 Acres and No Mule by Janice Holt Giles. In the late 1940s, Janice and Henry Giles moved from Louisville, Kentucky, back to the Appalachian hill country where Henry had grown up and where his family had lived since the time of the Revolution. With their savings, the couple bought a ramshackle house and forty acres of land on a ridge top and set out to be farmers like Henry’s forebears. To this personal account of the trials of a city woman trying to learn the ways of the country and of her neighbors, Giles brings the same warmth, humor, and powers of observation that characterize her novels. Enlightening and evocative, personal, and universally pertinent, this description of a year of “backaches, fun, low ebbs, and high tides, and above all a year of eminent satisfaction” will be welcomed by Giles’ many readers.
40 Acres and No Mule is available to Regional Readers for $12 per copy. Our meeting will be Tuesday, April 30; coffee and conversation at 2 p.m.; book discussion at 2:30 p.m.
The book group is open to all and new members are always welcome. We encourage suggestions for the 2024 reading list.