About the Reader’s Guide
The suggested questions are intended to help interest groups and reading groups find or explore topics of discussion that are of interest to them in Every Soul Is Free. Some of these ideas are mine, some come from readers like you who have suggested them. I hope all of them will enrich and increase your enjoyment of Every Soul Is Free.
- Does calling come before family?
- The Parent in Grandparent
- What happened to those deputies?
Guide to Reading at Ann D. Call’s Home, Bountiful, Utah
See the News page for the reading at Ann D. Call’s home.
- Themes
- Passing on heritage
- We live. We’re lost. We die.
- Lucky to Be Alive: Reading from Chapter 12
- How many people had to survive for you?
- What would happen if you never started over?
- In the Middle of the Night of the Soul: Reading from Chapter 37
- The foundation of literature came from being lost.
- Difference between being lost and not finding your way
- It always tries your soul
- Burying a Saint: Reading from Chapter 58.
General group discussion of Every Soul Is Free and how fiction informs the standards and values of our lives.
Guide to the “Read Between the Wines” Evening
See the News page for the “Read Between the Wines” book club evening of three guided discussions on grandparenting and how fiction informs the standards and values of our lives:
- Tough love and the question of whether it ever works: Reading from Chapter 1 and discussion by the group.
- Setting the standard by living the example: Reading from Chapter 14: Icy Springs and discussion by the group.
- Teach the lessons now, don’t wait: Reading from Chapter 56: Skates and discussion by the group.
General group discussion of Every Soul Is Free and how fiction informs the standards and values of our lives.