It's hard to believe that this book club has been around since late 1988, and that we have read 313 books together. Of course, the composition of the group has changed a little over the years, but several of us have read most of them. (Maybe Debra has read all of them? Let us know.)
We start 2023 out with a fascinating book, EVERYONE KNOWS YOUR MOTHER IS A WITCH. In 1618, long before social media, there was endless whispered gossip about one's neighbors, and because of the belief in witches, and lack of knowledge about what, for example, caused an illness, women were unfairly accused to dabbling in magic, and persecuted relentlessly.
This story is a fictionalized version of the plight of Johannes Kepler's mother, Katharina, a real woman, a plainspoken woman, who could not read or write, and whose neighbors both consulted her to get herbal treatments and feared her for providing them.
As you can imagine, her story will inspire sympathy and outrage in readers, as we see the consequences of the ignorance and follies of humanity laid out before us.
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Oh my, there are plenty of these 313 books I never finished, and a few I never started, especially I. The years when my kids were younger.
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