Showing posts with label book group. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book group. Show all posts
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Book Club
Book Club will be meeting on Wednesday, April 10th from 6-8pm this month.
April discussion book : Straight Man by Richard Russo
Feb 27, 2019
Nov 16, 2018
January Book Group
January Book Group Selection is:
”The account begins in the cold and dripping confines of the
Mayflower, where 102 passengers tensely await the conclusion of an arduous,
two-month voyage." "Philbrick evokes the drama of the voyage,
and the eerie emptiness of coastal New England in the fall of 1620"
Date: Monday 1/7/19
Time: 6:00pm
Oct 18, 2018
Sep 20, 2018
Jun 7, 2017
Nov 1, 2013
Oct 25, 2011
Next Book Group Discussion - Blame
The Seabrook Library's Adult Book Discussion Group meets the first Monday of each month at 6:30pm in the library. November' book selection is Blame by Michelle Huneven.
Summary:
Michelle Huneven, Richard Russo once wrote, is “a writer of extraordinary and thrilling talent.” That talent explodes with her third book, Blame, a spellbinding novel of guilt and love, family and shame, sobriety and the lack of it, and the moral ambiguities that ensnare us all.
The story: Patsy MacLemoore, a history professor in her late twenties with a brand-new Ph.D. from Berkeley and a wild streak, wakes up in jail—yet again—after another epic alcoholic blackout. “Okay, what’d I do?” she asks her lawyer and jailers. “I really don’t remember.” She adds, jokingly: “Did I kill someone?”
In fact, two Jehovah’s Witnesses, a mother and daughter, are dead, run over in Patsy’s driveway. Patsy, who was driving with a revoked license, will spend the rest of her life—in prison, getting sober, finding a new community (and a husband) in AA—trying to atone for this unpardonable act.
Then, decades later, another unimaginable piece of information turns up.
For the reader, it is an electrifying moment, a joyous, fall-off-the-couch-with-surprise moment. For Patsy, it is more complicated. Blame must be reapportioned, her life reassessed. What does it mean that her life has been based on wrong assumptions? What can she cleave to? What must be relinquished?
When Huneven’s first novel, Round Rock, was published, Valerie Miner, in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, celebrated Huneven’s “moral nerve, sharp wit and uncommon generosity.” The same spirit electrifies Blame. The novel crackles with life—and, like life, can leave you breathless.
May 14, 2008
Next book group selection: A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Seabrook Library's Adult Book Discussion Group meets the first Monday of each month at 6:30pm in the library. For June, the group will be discussing A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. All are welcome to attend. Stop by the library to pick up a copy to read.Summary: After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them — in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul — they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.
Apr 28, 2008
Book Discussion: Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult, May 5, 2008
The next meeting of the Adult Book Discussion Group will be Monday, May 5th at 6:00pm. The group will be discussing Nineteen Minutes, by Jodi Picoult.The book group meets the first Monday of each month, right here in the library. We always have multiple copies of selection to check out.
Click here to view some discussion-starting questions >
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