Butler Women of Wisdom Book Club

Hi All!         It’s spring! We officially made it through another winter. Thanks to our mutual friendship with books, we’re able to leave the blasé bleakness of Butler, at least in our heads, and travel to more interesting settings to survive our northern clime. Barb D., Barb K., Cheryl, Ginnie, Kathy, Lori, Sharon, and I all agree that Richard Paul Evans’ book The Walk was just the right escape we needed for February. It is a thoughtful, emotional, and in many ways cathartic novel that incited some of our members to read the remaining books in the series.      To summarize The Walk , the main character Alan Christofferson, an advertising mogul, loses everything that a man holds dear. First, he loses the love of his life, his wife and childhood sweetheart McKale, due to the repercussions of a serious accident.  While he is suffering through his wife’s condition and eventual death, his unscrupulous business partner Kyle has ...