Book Group Selections for March and April

Did you know we have a Book Group?

The UU-HNL “Page Turners” meet on Zoom the 2^nd Wednesdays of each month from 4:00 – 5:30 pm.  We read a wide selection of both fiction and non-fiction with the requirement that the book either be available in the library or very inexpensive used. To join our zoom discussion email James Skouge.

Selections for coming months:

FEBRUARY 11, 2026 (2nd Wed of month)

MARCH 11, 2026 (2nd Wed of month)

“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory,” by Caitlin Doughty

Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre—took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life’s work. Honest and heartfelt, self-deprecating and ironic, Caitlin’s engaging style makes this otherwise taboo topic both approachable and engrossing. Now a licensed mortician with an alternative funeral practice, Caitlin argues that our fear of dying warps our culture and society, and she calls for better ways of dealing with death (and our dead).

APRIL 8, 2026 (2nd Wed of month)

“North Woods: A Novel,”  by Daniel Mason

When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike.  A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—“a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic” (The Washington Post)