Food For Thought: A Culinary Book Club

Indulge in your passion for literature and cuisine at a unique book club where we combine the love of reading with the love of food! For September, we're going to read different books based on a specific theme chosen for the month. Come ready to talk about the book you have read and get some new ideas for your own reading. We are still going to be making and eating a delicious snack loosely inspired by the monthly theme. Don't miss out on this opportunity to bond with fellow book-lovers over a shared love of literature and food. The September theme will focused on retellings of famous stories. Come ready to talk about a book of your choice! To accompany our book talks we will be making honey cakes & apple cider List of Suggested books: James by Percival Everett. Everett has reimagined Mark Twain's 1885 classic Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved Jim. On Beauty by Zadie Smith. This story is inspired by Smith's love of E.M. Forster and loosely based on Howard's End published in 1910. Everything Under by Daisy Johnson. Johnson's book takes on the Greek myth of Oedipus, one of the most famous tragedies in classical mythology. An Orchestra of Minorities Chigozie Obioma. Obioma's book is a modern day re-telling of the 7-8th century BC Greek poem, The Odyssey. The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin. A reimagining of the story of the Virgin Mary. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. In Marion Zimmer Bradley's masterpiece, we see the tumult and adventures of Camelot's court through the eyes of the women who bolstered the king's rise and schemed for his fall. Hamnet and Judith by Maggie O'Farrell. Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, Hamnet and Judith is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor. The shapeshifting protagonist Paul Polydoris-who can change his body and gender at wi