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.
February: Thursday, February 19th at 2 PM
Clear by Carys Davies
John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland—Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted. _________
FYI: Past YPL Book Group picks include:
January: How to Read a Book by Monica Wood
November: Isola by Allegra Goodman
October: Orbital by Samantha Harvey
September: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
August: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald or Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
June: Foster by Claire Keegan
May: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
April: James by Percival Everett
March: The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and The Founding of a Nation by Nancy Rubin Stuart
February: The Stranger by Albert Camus
January:The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride ______________
Looking Ahead YPL Book Group
Looking Ahead Neighborhood Book Group
Details to come.
Neighborhood Book Group, led by Rick Woods, meets the 2nd Thursday of the month at 4 PM. Meets in the Gale Room.
(Call the library for contact information and further information.)
February: Thursday, February 12th at 4 PM
1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin
In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded―one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin.
With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash, behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naivety in an endless boom led to wreckage.
FYI: Past Neighborhood Book Group picks include:
February:1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin
December & January: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
November: Still Life by Sarah Winman
October: At Home by Bill Bryson
September: Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
June: The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and The Founding of a Nation by Nancy Rubin Stuart
May: The Vegetarian by Han Kang
April: Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
March: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
February: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
January: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult ______________