The St Mark Book Club meets the 3rd Tuesday of every month at 4:00 pm to discuss the specific book selection and also fellowship with each other. The club started in 2008 and we read Christian and secular books as recommended by our members. Our first selection was The Shack and over the years we’ve read classics- To Kill a Mockingbird, memoirs- Unbroken, and popular novels- My Sister’s Keeper (we went to the theatre to watch this when it came out as a movie). We’re a small group and invite any and all interested readers to join us!
Listed below are the monthly readings
The St Mark Book Club meets the 3rd Tuesday of every month at 4:00 pm to discuss the specific book selection and also fellowship with each other. The club started in 2008 and we read Christian and secular books as recommended by our members. Our first selection was The Shack and over the years we’ve read classics- To Kill a Mockingbird, memoirs- Unbroken, and popular novels- My Sister’s Keeper (we went to the theatre to watch this when it came out as a movie). We’re a small group and invite any and all interested readers to join us!
Listed below are the monthly readings
Book Club Selections for 2026
January Book
Once Upon A Wardrobe by Patti Callahan Henry Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George’s last wish by uncovering the truth behind his favorite story. The answer provides hope and healing and a magical journey for anyone whose life has ever been changed by a book. 1950: Margaret Devonshire (Megs) is a seventeen-year-old student of mathematics and physics at Oxford University. When her beloved eight-year-old brother asks Megs if Narnia is real, logical Megs tells him it’s just a book for children, and certainly not true. Homebound due to his illness, and remaining fixated on his favorite books, George presses her to ask the author of the recently released novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe a question: “Where did Narnia come from?” Despite her fear about approaching the famous author, who is a professor at her school, Megs soon finds herself taking tea with C. S. Lewis and his own brother Warnie, begging them for answers. Rather than directly telling her where Narnia came from, Lewis encourages Megs to form her own conclusion as he slowly tells her the little-known stories from his own life that led to his inspiration. As she takes these stories home to George, the little boy travels farther in his imagination than he ever could in real life. Lewis’s answers will reveal to Megs and her family many truths that science and math cannot, and the gift she thought she was giving to her brother—the story behind Narnia—turns out to be his gift to her, instead: hope. |