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2020 Butler Women of Wisdom Book Club Annual Newsletter

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BUTLER WOMEN OF WISDOM BOOK CLUB NEWSLETTER December 27, 2020 By Tammy C. Smith (Photo: Dawn breaks on Stoneybrook Drive in Saxonburg, December 2020) Introduction The flow of time does not stand still. Its journey runs swift without regard for those of us who gasp to keep the pace! Over a year and a half of reading has rushed between us since I last published a book club newsletter. Add onto that, 172 books read in the over sixteen years since our club was founded. All the while, stained upon the pages are the stories of our lives. Simple and humble though we are, our book club is more about us than the books we share. For the hero’s tale is experienced before it is ever written. Before COVID 19 It’s hard to remember a time before the Coronovirus arrived from China, but those innocent times did exist. Previous to the fateful Friday the 13th of March 2020, it had been months since I had written. My last newsletter was the summer of 2019 when we ended with a book discussion on Beloved ...
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January to June 2019 Book Club Biannual Newsletter

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“PEOPLE DON’T COME INTO OUR LIVES BY ACCIDENT”  (LISA WINGATE, BEFORE WE WERE YOURS, P 913) As we approach October and the upcoming fifteen-year anniversary of our book club, I can’t help but ponder the truth of the above quote. I don’t believe the Butler Women of Wisdom are connected by accident. Although through the years, we have lost members and added new members, the vitality of our group, I’ve observed, is inspired by change - new voices adding more substance to our own. We are all unified, however, in seeking a higher level of ourselves, finding enlightenment through the characters in our books and most of all through each other. Our meetings go beyond the books we read and into the most important subjects of our gatherings, simply sharing our lives with one another. While the club has evolved (I was 44 years old when we started!), we have experienced children graduate, go off to college, more graduations, weddings, the birth of grandchildren, new jobs, new ho...
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May - November 2018 and January 2019 Book Club Newsletter

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Volume 2, Issue 1 - January 2019 BUTLER WOMEN OF WISDOM SEMI-ANNUAL NEWSLETTER By Tammy C. Smith Introduction Time is flying by, everyone! We now begin another year of reading as a group, Butler Women of Wisdom, and as the family we have grown to be. It has been fourteen years since we read our first book. Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees was the start of our journey through what amounts now to just over 150 books! Quite a feat, I must say, both for the duration of our commitment to reading and, most of all, for our commitment to each other. The Best Book Club Christmas Party Ever! No one can deny the fun we all had at this year’s book club Christmas party which took place on Saturday, December 8! Thanks to senior member Lori and her husband Doug, we enjoyed their hospitality in their beautiful home. The party went on well into the evening, and for some of us, well into the night as there was so much fun and laughter afoot.  Charades were played (re...
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January thru April 2018: Where'd You Go Bernadette, Little Fires Everywhere, Moloka'i, and The Rock the Road and the Rabbi

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Volume 1, Issue 2 - April 2018 BUTLER WOMEN OF WISDOM QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER Greetings, Women of Wisdom! Happy Mother’s Day!  Hope you all enjoyed a May day of showers with flowers or some other sweet indulgence. As the year picked up its momentum, I quickly found myself way past my own quarterly deadline for this newsletter. Luckily, I have no editors hounding me for words only you my readers who have forgotten that the book club archivist still pens the minutes of our meetings. Looking back, this newsletter includes summaries of the Butler Women of Wisdom’s discussions from books we have read from January 2018 to April 2018. The books include Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste NG, Molokai by Alan Brennert, and The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi by Kathie Lee Gifford. Starting the year with Lori’s choice, our January’s read Where’d You Go Bernadette provided us with comic relief from the “blah” days of...
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