Introducing our next book!

Are you ready for our next book pick?!  

I have a Christmas treat for you!  I wanted to pick a book that was aligned with the season and I think I found a good one for us to enjoy!  Our next Needle & Prose Book Lovers Club pick is...

Christmas Bells by Jennifer Chiaverini!  Here is the summary for you...

I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old, familiar carols play / And wild and sweet / The words repeat / Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

In 1860, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrates Christmas at home, but although Longfellow is surrounded by his beloved wife, Fanny; their five adored children; and many dear friends, the country's grave political unrest weighs heavily on his mind.

In present-day Boston, Sophia, a dedicated public school teacher, is stunned by somber holiday tidings as her music program is sacrificed to budget cuts, her students to the realities of the inner city, and herself to impending unemployment.

The two stories become entwined when, inspired to honor a local artist, Sophia chooses a carol set to the pole Longfellow wrote on a Christmas Day long ago - a profound affirmation of faith and hope born of the poet's deeply personal grief.  Jennifer Chiaverinii's resonant and heartfelt novel for the season reminds us why we must continue to hear glad tidings even as we are tested by strife.  Reading Christmas Bells evokes the resplendent joy of a chorus of voices raised in reverent song.

I hope you will join our club in reading Christmas Bells!  Time to get your book and dive in!  We will have a Needle & Prose Tea Time livestream in mid-December and discuss the first 150 pages of the book.  

We will finish this book by mid-January and announce our next book at that time.

Happy reading, my friends!

Until next time...😊