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BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP


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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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Upcoming Selections

July 1 - The Third angel by Alice Hoffman
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. In this elegant and stunning novel, veteran heartstring-puller Hoffman (Here on Earth; Seventh Heaven) examines the lives of three women at different crossroads in their lives, tying their London-centered stories together in devastating retrospect. High powered New York attorney Maddy Heller arrives in 1999 London having had an affair with Paul, her sister Allie's fiancé,; she must now cope with the impending marriage, and with Paul's terminal illness—which echoes the girls' mother's cancer during their childhood. Hoffman then shifts to heady 1966 London and to Frieda Lewis, Paul's future mother, who falls for a doomed up-and-coming songwriter knowing he will break her heart. The narrative then shifts further back, to 1952 and to Maddy and Allie's future mother, Lucy Green. A bookish 12-year-old wise beyond her years, Lucy sails with her father and stepmother from New York to London for a wedding. There, she becomes an innocent catalyst to a devastating event involving a love triangle. Hoffman interweaves the three stories, gazing unerringly into forces that cause some people to self-destruct (There was no such thing as too much for a girl who thought she was second best) and others to find inner strength to last a lifetime. (Apr.)

August 5 - Body Surfing by Anita Shreve
From Publishers Weekly
Deceptive love and stark betrayal form the icy core of this dark 12th novel from Oprah-anointed (The Pilot's Wife), Orange Prize finalist (The Weight of Water) Shreve. Set adrift at 29 by the sudden death of her second husband (her first divorced her), smart, underemployed Sydney (no last name) signs on for a quiet New England oceanfront summer of tutoring 18-year-old Julie, the intellectually slow but artistically talented and strikingly beautiful daughter of the fractious Edwards clan. The family includes Julie's brothers—35-year-old Boston corporate real estate man Ben and 31-year-old M.I.T. poli-sci professor Jeff—and the three children's parents. Sydney is half-Jewish, and Mrs. Edwards is anti-Semitic. Family tensions escalate when Julie disappears, then resurfaces in Montreal as the lesbian lover of 25-year-old Helene (a body surfer who frequented the beach near the Edwardses' home). Jeff and Sydney bond during their search for Julie, nights of passion leading to plans for a joyous wedding, which get very complicated when the couple returns to Edwards central. Shreve's devastating depiction of the family's dissolution—the culmination of sublimated jealousies suddenly exploding into the open—is wrenching. Shreve's omniscience is asserted with such ease that it often feels like she's toying with her characters, but her control is masterful, particularly in the sure-handed and compassionate aftermath. (Apr.)



  • 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
  • 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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