CJE VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB
3rd Wednesday at 11 am
Join us for our next CJE Virtual Book Club discussion!
Date: December 18
Book Title: The Berlin Letters
Book Author: Katherine Raey
Bestselling author Katherine Reay returns with an unforgettable tale set during the Cold War, following a CIA codebreaker who risks it all to free her father from an East German prison. From a young age, Luisa Voekler has had a passion for solving puzzles and cracking codes. Her brilliance and sharp logic have set high expectations for a fast rise within the CIA. However, while her colleagues take on exciting assignments in the high-stakes world of the late 1980s, Luisa finds herself relegated to decoding World War II messages—until a personal mission changes everything.
Date: January 15
Book Title: Circe
Book Author: Madeline Miller
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born, Circe. But she is neither powerful like her father nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals, Circe discovers her power of witchcraft. Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with mythology’s most famous figures. But Circe draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must choose whether she belongs with the gods she is born from or with the mortals she has come to love.
Date: February 19
Book Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition 2024)
Book Author: Mark Twain
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer’s aunt who mistakes him for Tom.
Date: March 19
Book Title: James
Book Author: Percival Everett
A brilliant reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place, Jim’s agency, intelligence, and compassion are shown in a radically new light.
