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Book Discussion Groups


Library staff will assist any participant in obtaining books and/or videos for the discussion groups. Sign up at the Fiction, Movies and Music Desk at the Library, or call 285-8006.

 


ARMCHAIR TRAVELERS BOOK GROUP

TUESDAYS 11:00 A.M.
MEETING ROOM A

Pick up a best-selling book that will take you to a different place or time. You are welcome to bring your lunch to this group.

June 3, 2008
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigan

July 1, 2008
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

August 5, 2008
The Sea by John Banville

September 2, 2008
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson

October 7, 2008
Water by Bapsi Sidhwa

November 4 , 2008
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons

December 2, 2008
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison

January 6, 2009
House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

February 3, 2009
In the Woods by Tana French

March 3, 2009
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

April 7, 2009
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo

May 5, 2009
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

June 2, 2009
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

July 7, 2009
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Burroughs

 


LITERATURE INTO FILM

TUESDAYS 1:30 P.M.
MEETING ROOM B

Join us to read the book and/or watch the video of classic works of literature. Members meet the last Tuesday of every month. Beverages are provided and members take turns bringing treats.

May 27

Jean de Florette by Marcel Pagnol

June 17

How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn

July 29

Glass Menagerie by Tennesse Williams

August 26

Mrs. DeWinter by Susan Hill (Movie – Rebecca)

September 30

Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling

October 28

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

November 25

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
(Year end party - start at 1 p.m.)

 


MYSTERY READERS BOOK CLUB

MONDAYS 12:00 Noon
MEETING ROOM A

Read different titles by the same mystery author and share at the meeting. Members meet the fourth Monday of every month in Meeting Room A.


September 22, 2008
What [mysteries] we read this summer

October 27, 2008
True Crime
(Ann Rule [34.1523 R861 on nonfiction shelf] or others)

November 24, 2008
Canadian Authors/Settings

(Lou Alin, Rosemary Aubert, Howard Engle, Ted Wood)


December 22 , 2008
Humor

(M.C. Beaton, Dorothy Gilman, Dean James)

January 26, 2009
Famous persons as sleuths (choose one or more)

Jane Austen by Stephanie Barron
Julius Caesar by Steven Saylor (Roma Sub Rosa series)
Benjamin Franklin by Robert Lee Hall
Beatrix Potter by Susan Witting Albert (Cottage tales...)
Elvis Presley by Daniel M Klein
Eleanor Roosevelt by Elliott Roosevelt
Oscar Wilde by Gyles Brandreth

February 23, 2009
[Mystery] Authors/titles we've been meaning to read

March 23, 2009

Secrets of the Congdon Mansion by Joe Kimball

April 27, 2009
Classic Grande Dames

Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tuppence & Tommy Beresford)
Ngaio Marsh (Roderick Alleyn)
Dorothy Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey)


May 18, 200
Classic Clerics

G K Chesterton (Father Brown)
Andrew Greeley (Father John Blackwood “Blackie” Ryan)
Harry Kemelman (Rabbi David Small)

 


NIGHT OWL BOOK CLUB

TUESDAYS 7:00 P.M.
MEETING ROOM A

This monthly book group will be reading page turning books you just can't put down.  Members meet the third Tuesday of the month.


May 20, 2008
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

June 17, 2008
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

July 15, 2008
The Girls by Lori Lansens


August 19, 2008
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas

September 16, 2008
The Broker by John Grisham

October 21 , 2008
The Book Thief by Markus Zukas

November 18 , 2008
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

December 16 , 2008
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

January 20, 2009
Life of Pi by Yan Martel

Feburary 17, 2009
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

March 17 , 2009
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

April 21 , 2009
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

May 19 , 2009
Before You Know Kindness by Christopher Bohjalian

June 16 , 2009
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

 


PLAIN READERS BOOK GROUP

TUESDAYS 12:00 NOON
MEETING ROOM A

Join us to read books set in the Midwest or by Midwestern authors. You are welcome to bring your lunch to this group. Members meet on the third Tuesday of the month in Meeting Room A.

May 20th, 2008
Quality of Life Report by Meghan Daum

June (no meeting)

July 15th, 2008
Torch by Cheryl Strayed

August 19th, 2008
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson

September 16th, 2008
Land that Moves, Land that Stands Still by Kent Nelson

October 21st, 2008
Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger

November 18th, 2008
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

December 16th, 2008
Way off the Road by Bill Geist

 

 

Last updated: 6/13/08