Riverbend Knits & Novels Book Club
Our Knits and Novels Bookclub meets at 10am on (approximately) the fourth Wednesday of each month. We read contemporary fiction with the odd memoir or classic thrown in. Some of our members like to knit, crochet or craft during our bookclub session - and we are always keen to do a show and tell of our current craft projects!
For Knits & Novels Book Club members, please scroll down to find out what your current and next book club books are. You will also find a calendar of dates and the list of books that you've read over the past year.
DATES FOR 2024
The Color of Water by James McBride
READING IN FEBRUARY
The Color of Water
by James McBride
As a boy in Brooklyn, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked her about it, she'd simply say, 'I'm light-skinned.' Later he wondered if he was different too and asked his mother if he was black or white. 'You're a human being,' she snapped. 'Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!' And when James asked what colour God was, she said, 'God is the color of water'...As an adult, McBride finally persuaded his mother to tell her story - the story of a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, married a black man, founded a Baptist church and put twelve children through college. THE COLOR OF WATER is James McBride's tribute to his remarkable, eccentric, determined mother - and an eloquent exploration of what family means.
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