Library Book Groups

The library holds 6 monthly book groups. Books are available at the circulation desk a month before the discussion. Great Books Discussion Group texts can be found online at Project Gutenberg. Get Lit books are available as ebook downloads on Hoopla.

Morning Book Group	1st Thursday at 10AM		Susan Dunker
Afternoon Book Group	3rd Monday at 3PM		Denise Lafrance
Evening Book Group	3rd Monday at 6:30PM		Denise Lafrance
Great Books Discussion Group	1st Friday at 1:30PM	Topic: Poetry	John Moore
Great Books Discussion Group	3rd Friday at 1:30PM	Topic: Government & Politics 2020	John Moore
Get Lit	Last Wednesday at 6:30PM	At Blue Latitudes	Emily Fortin
Pizza & Pages	3rd Wednesday at 6PM	Grades 7+ with Pizza!	Denise Lafrance

^{Book Club Schedules}

^{Morning Book Group}

December 5, 2019	Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
January 2, 2020	Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
February 6, 2020	Exit West by Moshin Hamid
March 5, 2020	Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
April 2, 2020	The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
May 7, 2020	Where You’ll Find Me by Ty Gagne
June 4, 2020	The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
July 2, 2020	Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
August vacation month	See you in September!
September 3, 2020	Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg
October 1, 2020	Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
November 5, 2020	Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
December 3, 2020	The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Afternoon Bookgroup

Evening Bookgroup

The Afternoon and Evening Bookgroups read the same book each month. Come at either time.

December 16, 2019	Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
January 13, 2020	Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
February 19, 2020	A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
March 16, 2020	Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg
April 20, 2020	TBA
May 18, 2020	To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
June 15, 2020	Stranger in the Woods: the extraordinary story of the North Pond Hermit by Michael Finkel

Great Books Discussion Group - Poetry

Great Books Discussion Group texts can be found online at Project Gutenberg.

January 3, 2020	Homer: The Iliad, Book 1 (17 pages)
February 7, 2020	Ben Jonson: "On My First Sonne", Mark Twain: "Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd" (2 pages)
March 6, 2020	Charles Lamb: Old China (6 pages)
April 3, 2020	Coleridge: "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison", Hopkins: "Pied Beauty" (3 pages)
May 1, 2020	James Joyce: "Araby" (6 pages)
June 5, 2020	Anthony Hecht: "Rites and Ceremonies" (? Pages -- this is a longer poem)
July 3, 2020	Anthony Hecht: "Devotions of a Painter", Elizabeth Bishop: "Poem" (? Pages -- they are short)
August 7, 2020	Flannery O'Connor: "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (17 pages)
September 4, 2020	Edna St. Vincent Millay: "Renascence," "When the Year Grows Old,", "The Ballad of the Harp Weaver" (8 pages)
October 2, 2020	Sarah Orne Jewett: "An Autumn Holiday" (14 pages)
November 6, 2020	Robert Frost: "Two Witches" (7 pages)
December 4, 2020	John Greenleaf Whittier: "Snow Bound" (6 pages)

Great Books Discussion Group - Government & Politics 2020

January 17, 2020	Plato: The Republic, Book I (26 pages)
February 21, 2020	Aristotle: Politics Excerpts (17 pages)
March 20, 2020	Hobbes: Leviathan - (Intro, Ch. XIII, XIV, XVIII) (23 pages)
April 17, 2020	Locke: Second Treatise of Government Ch. I - IV, (18 pages)
May 15, 2020	Montesquieu: Spirit of the Laws - Books I, II, III (27 pages)
June 19, 2020	Rousseau: The Social Contract, Book I (18 pages)
July 17, 2020	Declaration of Independence
August 21, 2000	US Constitution
September 18, 2020	Federalist Papers: No. 9 (Hamilton), No. 10 (Madison) (8 pages)
October 16, 2020	Federalist Papers: Nos. 39 and 51 (Madison) (10 pages)
November 20, 2020	Benjamin Constant: The Liberty of Ancients Compared With That of Moderns (18 pages)
December 18, 2020	Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Volume II, Part I, Chapters 1 - 5) (25 pages)

Get Lit

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Pizza & Pages

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