YPL Book Group, led by Leslie Altman, meets the 3rd Thursday of the month at 2 PM. Newcomers always welcome. Meets in the Simpkins Reading Room. (Does not meet in July)
August: Thursday, August 8th at 2 PM (note date change)
For our August meeting we are reading one or more of the following titles about octopuses.Carol Riley is creating a book mark with titles, including videos, related to octopuses (or octopi). You can choose among them for our August meeting. The latest issue of National Geographic has a cover story about octopuses, connected with their TV series on this fascinating subject. Info about where to watch will be on your new bookmark.
There are also videos to watch:
My Octopus Teacher, Craig Foster, 2020, available on Netflix.
National Geographic Secrets of the Octopus, 2024, and Season One, 3 episodes, available on the National Geographic Channel.
Non-Fiction
Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World by Craig Foster (2021)
Non-Fiction
The Soul of an Octopus (2016)
by Sy Montgomery
Fiction
Remarkably Bright Creatures
by Shelby Van Pelt
Non-Fiction
Secrets of the Octopus (2024)
by Sy Montgomery
FYI: Past YPL Book Group picks include:
June: Jacquelyn Mitchard Books
May: Judas by Amos Oz
April: Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
March: The Wager by David Grann
February: The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
January: Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
November: This is Happiness by Niall Williams
October: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
September: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
August: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver and David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ______________
Looking Ahead YPL Book Group
September: Thursday, September 19th at 2 PM
In September we will be reading a biography, but the title is yet to be chosen. Suggestions of titles and topics are welcome!
Neighborhood Book Group, led by Rick Woods, meets the 2nd Thursday of the month at 4 PM. Meets in the Gale Room. (Does not meet in July or August.)
(Call the library for contact information and further information.)
September: Thursday, September 12th at 4 PM
The Moonstone by Wilke Collins
It was one of the first police procedurals, and was written in the 1860s.
The Moonstone is a page-turner", writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recounting of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular."
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.
FYI: Past Neighborhood Book Group picks include:
June: Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney
May: Old Filth by Jane Gardam
April: Chasing Bright Medusa: A Life of Willa Cather by Benjamin Taylor
My Antonia by Willa Cather
March:”Not the End of the World: How we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet" by Hannah Ritchie
February: The Overstory by Richard Powers
January: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
December: News of the World by Paulette Jiles
November: Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl
October: The Book of Everlasting Things by Aanchal Malhotra
September: East of Eden by John Steinbeck & Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver _____________