Our next meeting is Tuesday, March 8

The Midway Woods Book Club meets regularly (mostly virtual for now, but plans are to move back to in-person meetings once COVID allows) to discuss books of interest to the group. Book lovers are always welcome!

The club’s next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 8 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and the book that will be discussed is The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish. 

A description of the book, from Rachel Kadish’s website: “Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history.

“As the novel opens, Helen has been summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his home during a renovation. Enlisting the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming, and in a race with another fast-moving team of historians, Helen embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents’ scribe, the elusive “Aleph.”

“Electrifying and ambitious, sweeping in scope and intimate in tone, The Weight of Ink is a sophisticated work of historical fiction about women separated by centuries, and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind.”

The book was the winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award.

You can find out more about the book at Kadish’s website: http://rachelkadish.com.

If you’d like to join the Midway Woods Book club, just send an email to midwaywoodscommunications@gmail.com and let us know you’d like to join! Please email us if you’d like to get in on the fun!

Among the books that the club has read and discussed in the past:

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption by Ian Manual.
• Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason by Gina Frangello
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
• Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
• Educated by Tara Westover
• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel by Grady Hendrix