Happy Endings Book Club

Happy Endings Book Club will meet on November 10 at 10:00 am in the Fireside Room. It was suggested we read a banned book and the banned book most noted for 2025 is 1984 by George Orwell. This book has repeatedly been banned and challenged in the past for its social and political themes, as well as for sexual content. Additionally, in 1981, the book was challenged in Jackson County, Florida, for being pro-communism.

Also on a lighter note we will read The Banned Books Club (a novel) by Brenda Novak. Despite their strained relationship, when Gia Rossi’s sister, Margot, begs her to come home to Wakefield, Iowa, to help with their ailing mother, Gia knows she has no choice. After her rebellious and at-times tumultuous teen years, Gia left town with little reason to look back. But she knows Margot’s borne the brunt of their mother’s care and now it’s Gia’s turn to help, even if it means opening old wounds.

As expected, Gia’s homecoming is far from welcome. There’s the Banned Books Club she started after the PTA overzealously slashed the high school reading list.

-Judy McDowell