Beverly Unitarian Church

   MARCH MEETING    

   Monday, March 8, 7:30 PM.at Jean Robinson's house, 9210 S. Winchester

   March Selection:  The Wordy Shipmates (Sara Vowell)      Essayist and public radio regular Vowell (Assassination Vacation) revisits America's Puritan roots in this witty exploration of the ways in which our country's present predicaments are inextricably tied to its past. In a style less colloquial than her previous books, Vowell traces the 1630 journey of several key English colonists and members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and its aftereffects.

 UPCOMING SELECTIONS:

 April 12 - Love Warps the Mind a Little (John Dufresne)       Lafayette Proulx has an eye for the comic elements that can be found in the everyday events of life, and an armchair philosopher's sense of detached bemusement. Laf quits his day job and decides to pursue his dream of writing fiction, a move precipitated by the breakup of his marriage and followed by a torrent of rejection slips. He moves in with his hesitant girlfriend Judi, and for a time, the story sets into a domestic story of befuddled affection and incidental affairs. Suddenly, Judi is diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and from here on out, Love Warps the Mind a Little becomes a stunning love story, sweetly moving in its description of love amid tragic circumstances.