The BUUF Book Discussion Group is open to all adolecents and adults from any denomination or none. It is facilitated by Rev. Peggy Meeker.

It meets on the second Tuesday of the month at the Lift Bridge Book Store on Main Street, in Brockport, NY from 6:30 - 8:00 PM.

Books are chosen from nominations by  group members.

For further information contact Rev. Peggy Meeker at 585-224-6312 or David Markham at 585-637-0040.

Books are available for purchase at the Liftbridge Book Store (at 20% if you tell the clerk it is for the BUUF book club) or for borrowing at your local library.

Books discussed in 2009

10/13/09 Here If You Need Me: A True Story by Kate Braestrup. Watch Kate Braestrup being interviewed on Maine Public Broadcasting Network by clicking here.

11/10/09 In Defense Of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan. Watch an talk by Michael Pollan on Google Authors by ">clicking here.

12/08/09, Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Books discussed in 2010

01/12/10, Six Degrees: Our Future On A Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas

02/09/10, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 50th anniversary of the book's first publishing.

03/09/10, The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton

04/13/10, The Doctor's Wife by Elizabeth Brundage

05/11/10, Inheriting The Trade by Thomas Norman DeWolf

06/08/10, Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, book discussion group at Lift Bridge Book Store in Brockport, NY. Ceremony by Leslie Silko 

07/13/10, Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, Lift Bridge, Farm Hands at Lift Bridge. (Tom Rivers will be there to answer questions at the beginning.)

09/14/10, Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, Long Way Gone: Memoirs of A Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beal

10/12/10, Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 

11/09/10, Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, You Don't Have To Be Wrong For Me To Be Right by Brad Hirschfield

12/14/10, Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, The Fourth Hand by John Irving

Books discussed in 2011

01/11/11, Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, Under Three Empires by Izyaslav Darakhovskiy, author was present 

02/08/11, Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, March by Geraldine Brooks

03/08/11, Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm, The Death Of Josseline by Margaret Regan

04/12/11, Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

05/10/11, Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot 

06/14/11, Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, Charlie No Face, David B. Seaburn, author will be present.

July - no meeting

08/09/11 Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, The Help by Kathryn Stockett

09/13/11, Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, Emergence: Labled Autistic by Temple Grandin, Ph.D.

10/11/11 Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, The Art Of Racing In the Rain, Garth Stein

11/08/11, Tuesday, 3:30 - 8:00 PM, Acts of Faith, Eboo Patel

12/13/11, Tuesday, 3:30 - 8:00 PM Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks—a historical novel set in the 1660s on Martha’s Vineyard, where the daughter of a Puritan pilgrim family meets an Indian boy, the nephew of the powerful spiritual leader of the local Wampanoag, and they both must face the challenges of growing up in the formative years of our country 

Books discussed in 2012

01/10/12, Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich—an account of the author’s attempt to make a living through jobs as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart associate, alongside those in the bottom third of America’s income distribution. 

02/14/12, Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 PM Price and Prejudice by Jane Austen - one of the most popular books in English literature, this is the story of Elizabeth, the second of five daughters of an English country gentleman, and of issues of class, manners, morality, education, and marriage in the England of 200 years ago.

March 13^th: The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean—a moving novel that shifts between Germany's siege of Leningrad during World War II and the siege of Alzheimer’s against the mind and memory of Marina, an elderly Russian woman in Seattle who is preparing for her granddaughter’s wedding and thinking back on her days as a docent at Leningrad’s Hermitage Museum. (Note: we chose a novel two months in a row in order to participate in the Writers & Books program “If All of Rochester Read the Same Book,”, which will be bringing the author to Rochester for several events on March 28-31.  For more information, see www.wab.org or call Writers & Books at 585-473-2590.)



All BUUF book discussion group books can be purchased for 20% off at the Lift Bridge Book Shop if you tell the cashier you are a BUUF book discussion group member. Support out local Brockport merchants.

Recommended books

 A Chosen Faith: An Introduction To Unitarian Universalism by John Buehrens and Forrest Church

 A Hidden Wholeness: A Journey Toward An Undivided Lifeby Parker Palmer

 Blessing The World: What Can Save Us Nowby Rebecca Ann Parker and Robert Hardies

Past Books read