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BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP


Scintillating Discussions since 1999!

MEETS MONTHLY


The group is casual and the discussions are informal.
The library will provide the books.
The monthly selections are suggested and chosen by the readers.
Reading interests are contemporary fiction, classics, memoirs and popular nonfiction.
New members and new suggestions are always welcome.

For more information, ask at the Library's circulation desk.
See the library's monthly calendar of events for meeting dates.

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Laura Rider's Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton
From Publishers Weekly
Oprah-anointed Hamilton once again takes readers to the Midwest, this time lacing her narrative with winning humor. Laura Rider and her husband, Charlie, live in Hartley, Wis., where they own and run Prairie Wind Farm. After 12 years of marriage, Laura decides to stop sleeping with Charlie, and although lovemaking is his one superb talent, she's convinced she's used up her quota. Also, Laura has a secret fantasy: to be an author. After she meets local public radio host Jenna Faroli, Laura decides to write a romance and encourages a flirtation between Charlie and Jenna, an experiment that she thinks will help her write her book. Their flirtation quickly slides into an affair, with Laura's sly interference. Laura, at once jealous and pleased, benefits from the inevitable chain of events, while Jenna isn't so lucky. Though the plotting is a bit predictable, the female characters are sharply observed and delineated, and the humorous tone will be an appealing surprise to Hamilton's readers.
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
From Publishers Weekly
Had Ellis Peters's Brother Cadfael been born a few decades later, he might have found a worthy associate and friend in Dr. Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar of Salerno, a short and short-tempered medieval coroner hired in secret by King Henry II to find out who's behind the horrific murders of Christian children in Cambridge, England. Prominent local Jews stand accused; Henry wants them freed, mostly for the sake of their tax revenue. As Adelia examines the children's bodies and gets to know the people of Cambridge, she has no trouble assembling a long list of suspects, but she encounters considerable difficulty trying to narrow it down, a struggle in which the reader gladly joins her. Not all of the plot twists are surprising and the romantic subplot is an unnecessary afterthought, but Franklin (City of Shadows) has developed a skillful blend of historical fact and gruesome fiction that's more than sufficient to keep readers interested and entertained. (Feb.)



  • 2011 Selections
    • Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
    • The Master by Colm Toibin
    • The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
    • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
    • Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
    • Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
    • Piano Teacher By Janice YK Lee
    • Inheritance of Loss By Kiran Desai
    • That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
    • Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
    • Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
    • Ice: A Novel by Linda Howard
  • 2010 Selections
    • Little chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town and the Search for What Matters Most by Gwendolyn Bounds
    • Possession by A.S. Byatt
    • The Thirteenth Tale: a Novel by Daine Setterfield
    • The Little Book by Selden Edwards
    • Black & White and Dead All Over by John Darnton
    • The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst
    • The Third angel by Alice Hoffman
    • Body Surfing by Anita Shreve
    • The Summer I Dared by Barbara Delinsky
    • Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
      by Mary Ann Shaffer
    • Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
    • Kissing Christmas Goodbye by MC Beaton
  • 2009 Selections
    • Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
    • Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
    • Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
    • Blindness by Jose' Saramago
    • Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
    • Painted Drum by Louise Erdich
    • Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman
    • Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
    • Footprints of God by Greg Iles
    • The Library Book by John Fiske
    • Night Fall by Nelson DeMille
    • Sweet Revenge by Diane Mott Davidson


  • 2008 Selections
    • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
    • Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing
    • Quiet Game by Greg Iles
    • Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst
    • Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
    • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
    • The Society by Michael Palmer
    • Amagansett by Mark Mills
    • The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days
      and the Triumph of Hope by Jonathan Alter
    • Boom!: Voices of the Sixties by Tom Brokaw
    • A different Kind of Christmas by Alex Haley

  • 2007 Selections
    • 1776 - David McCullough
    • Atonement - McEwan
    • American Pastoral - Roth
    • The Laramie Project - Kaufman
    • The Sign of the Book– A Cliff Janeway Bookman Novel – Dunning
      Also: Fierce Attachments - Vivian Gornick
    • The Known World - Edward Jones
    • The Poe Shadow - Matthew Pearl
    • Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
    • A Stolen Season - Steve Hamilton
    • Lazy B: Growing up on a cattle ranch in the American Southwest - Sandra Day O’Connor & H. Alan Day
    • The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
    • Santa Cruise by Mary Higgins Clark
      and Carol Higgins Clark



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