Book Club

The Women’s ERG Book Club is an opportunity to connect with new people over interesting and entertaining content. Our hope is to provide a forum to develop new friendships and to encourage a continued commitment to learning and reading. We will announce each selected book two months in advance of the book club so that anyone interested in participating has plenty of time to read or listen to the book.

Expectations:

1. You’ll meet new people on campus and have an immediate ice breaker that connects you to one another.
2. You’ll read books that you wouldn’t otherwise read. We hope to cycle through fiction, biographies, and professional development books in order to attract the greatest possible readership.
3. In order to fully participate in the discussion, we ask that you finish the book before the meeting. This will eliminate spoilers and make for more meaningful conversations.
4. We encourage you to suggest books for the book club. Please submit your recommendations via the Book Suggestions form.

Upcoming Book

The Correspondent By Virginia Evans Friday, June 26, 2026 12:00-1:00pm Zoom Genre: Fiction “Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle. . . . Isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing, to someone?” Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, The Correspondent is a gem of a novel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person. It is about the hubris of youth and the wisdom of old age, and the mistakes and acts of kindness that occur during a lifetime. Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter. Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has—a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a very full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes that the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness. Sybil Van Antwerp’s life of letters might be “a very small thing,” but she also might be one of the most memorable characters you will ever read.

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