Events

FLOSSMOOR BOOK CLUB PROGRAMS

2025-26 CLUB YEAR

*September 12—*GUEST DAY * Errol McLendon—MOTH Award Winning Storyteller

October 10 Phillip Potempa, Performing Arts Center in Munster

presenting Ann Landers and other celebrities

November 14 Trina Hayes-- Annual Book Recommendations

December 12 Megan Wells-- Portrayal of Little Women

in the Season of Giving

February 13 Paul Teodo, MOTH Award Winning Storyteller

March 13 Kristin Beirne--- Faculty of The College of DuPage

Judy Chicago's Brooklyn Installation of The Dinner Party

April 24 —LUNCHEON Leslie Goddard--Portrayal of Abigail Adams

Idlewild CC in Flossmoor

*Guests are free*

Upcoming events

Next General Meeting

Friday October 10, 2025

Fellowship Hall of the FLOSSMOOR COMMUNITY CHURCH

Speaker: Phillip Potempa, Performing Arts Center in Munster

presenting Ann Landers and other celebrities

Past events

Friday September 12, 2025---Errol McLendon—MOTH Award Winning Storyteller

Friday,March 14, 2025

Speaker: Kris Condon: Fragments of Flossmoor

February 14 , 2025---- William Hammack--Revisiting Shakespeare

December 13, 2024------ Errol McLendon--Award Winning Storyteller

November 8, 2024--Trina Hayes: Annual Book Recommendation

(See Books Tab for her current List)

October 11, 2024--- Pat Camalliere--Historical novel author of the Lemont area

Friday September 13,2024 General Meeting

Roberta Gates and Connie Connelly---------------- Reviewing their recently published novels--See picture above

FBC Luncheon--Friday April 19, 2024 @

Balagio Ristorante in Homewood

Speaker: Martina Mathisen

Portrayal of Edith Head

Hollywood's Designer for the Stars

March 2024 FBC Books Reviewed pictured above

Friday March 15 , 2024 General Meeting

Speaker:Peggy Glennie (Nom de Plume is Paula Evans):

Topic: The Facts of Writing Fiction

Friday February 16, 2024 @ 1pm

General Meeting

Speaker: Megan Wells

Topic : Portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt

Friday December 15, 2023

General Meeting

Speaker: Karen O'Donnell

Topic : Homewood Stories

November 2023 General Meeting

Speaker:Trina Hayes

Topic: Annual Book Recommendations

FICTION

Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet

Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

From Dust to Dust by Kathleen Rooney

Good Night Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

The Measure by Nickki Erlick

The Music of Bees by Eileen Gavin

Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

This Other Eden by Paul Harding

NONFICTION

The Art Thief by Michael Finkel

October 2023 General Meeting

Speaker: Randy Madderom

Topic: My Heartfelt Stories and Poems

September 2023 General Meeting

Speaker: Al Jackson

Topic: Classical Music's "Bad Boy" Composers