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The Library's Book
Discussion Group has been meeting every three weeks (with
occasional one-week lapses due to holidays) since 1983.
The group meets on Wednesday evenings at 8 PM and talks
informally about plot, character, motivation, language,
and anything else that comes to mind for about an hour
before checking out the author's biographical facts and
what critics have had to say about the book under
discussion.
Anyone interested
is cordially invited to pick up a copy of the upcoming
book (lists for future dates and copies of the current
book are always available) and join the fun! The books
are almost always fiction, with a fair distribution
between male and female authors; and a range of
publication dates from the nineteenth century up to a few
months ago.
For lists of books
discussed in previous years, please click on the year:
2011 - 2010 - 2009
Current selections
listed below (all summaries obtained from WLS database Novelist)
October 26 - Strangers
on a Train by Patricia
Highsmith
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An
architect is harassed on a train by a
psychotic who wants to swap murders and
who proceeds to carry out his part of the
unconfirmed bargain. |
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November 16 - The Secret
Scripture by Sebastian
Barry
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Recording the events of
her life from a mental hospital as her
hundredth birthday approaches, Roseanne
McNulty considers returning to society
when she learns that the hospital is
about to close. |
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December 7 - The
Postmistress by Sarah Blake
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I The
stories of a small Cape Cod postmistress
and an American radio reporter stationed
in London collide on the eve of the
United States's entrance into World War
II, a meeting that is shaped by a broken
promise to deliver a letter.
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December 28 - Super Sad True
Love Story by Gary
Shteyngart
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In a
novel set in the near future, when a
beautiful, yet cruel, woman that Lenny
Abramov met in Italy says she his coming
to stay with him in New York, even the
tanks and soldiers stationed in the city
and the ongoing war with Venezuela can't
get him down.
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January 18, 2012 - Three Women by Marge Piercy
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Suzanne
Blume has been enjoying a restful and
happy period in her life when suddenly
everything begins to fall apart, with her
grown daughter moving back in and her
independent mother having a stroke that
leaves her helpless.
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February 8 - An Object of
Beauty by Steve Martin
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Steve
Martin's latest novel examines the
glamour and the subterfuge of the fine
art world in New York City
Later in the year
March 21 - The Imperfectionists by Tom
Rachman
April 11 - The Book of Salt by Monique
Truong
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