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 Sunday at 2PM Fridays at 1 in the summer	Topic: Friendship and Community	John Moore
Get Lit	Last Wednesday at 6:30PM	At Sonny's Tavern	Emily Fortin
Pizza & Pages	3rd Wednesday at 6PM	Grades 7+ with Pizza!	Denise Lafrance

^{Book Club Schedules}

^{Morning Book Group}

March 7, 2019	Without a Map by Meredith Hall
April 4, 2019	In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
May 2, 2019	To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
June 6, 2019	Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
July 11, 2019	The Women in the Castle by Jessic Shattuck
August	Vacation month
September 5, 2019	News of the World by Paulette Jiles
October 3, 2019	Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
November 7, 2019	Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
December 5, 2019	Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Afternoon Bookgroup

Evening Bookgroup

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

March 18, 2019	The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
April 15, 2019	Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
May 20, 2019	Where You'll Find Me by Ty Gagne
June 17, 2019	The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
July and August	Enjoy the summer off!
September 16, 2019	Kookooland: a memoir by Gloria Norris
October 21, 2019	Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
November 18, 2019	Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
December 16, 2019	TBA

Great Books Discussion Group

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

March 3, 2019	Aristotle (384 BCE – 322 BCE). Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII (20 pages) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8438/8438-h/8438-h.htm#link2H_4_0011
April 7, 2019	Cicero (106 BCE – 43 BCE). Laelius: On Friendship (50 pages) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2808/2808-h/2808-h.htm#link2H_4_0002
May 5, 2019	Montaigne (1533 – 1592). The Essays: Of Friendship. (10 pages) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3600/3600-h/3600-h.htm#link2HCH0027
June 7, 2019 at 1:00	William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616). Sonnet 29 (When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes…): http://shakespeare.mit.edu/Poetry/sonnet.XXIX.html Sonnet 104 (To me, fair friend, you never can be old…): http://shakespeare.mit.edu/Poetry/sonnet.CIV.html Sonnet 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds…): http://shakespeare.mit.edu/Poetry/sonnet.CXVI.html
July 12, 2019 at 1:00	Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862). A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. (excerpt from the chapter titled Wednesday, starting at the paragraph that begins “Friendship is evanescent…” approximately 20 pages) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4232/4232-h/4232-h.htm#link2H_4_0006
August 2, 2019 at 1:00	Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910). Short story: The Prisoner of the Caucasus. (22 pages) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Twenty-three_Tales/A_Prisoner_in_the_Caucasus
September 1, 2019	Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886). I’m Nobody! Who are You? (https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-m-nobody-who-are-you/), I Showed Her Heights She Never Saw (https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-showed-her-heights-she-never-saw/), We Talked As Girls Do (https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-talked-as-girls-do/), and Elysium Is As Far (https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/elysium-is-as-far-as-to/)
October 6, 2019	Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909). Miss Tempy’s Watchers. (20 pages; found at http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/tne/tempy.htm)
November 3, 2019	James Joyce (1882 – 1941). A Little Cloud (from Dubliners) (14 pages) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2814/2814-h/2814-h.htm#chap08
December 1, 2019	Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870). A Christmas Carol. (72 pages) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19337/19337-h/19337-h.htm or (Robert Burns (1759 – 1796). Auld Lang Syne. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1279/1279-h/1279-h.htm#link2H_4_0240

Get Lit

The title for the next month is chosen during the discussion. Check the Event Calendar to see the next title. These titles are available as ebook downloads through Hoopla.

Pizza & Pages

March 13, 2019	Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
April 17, 2019	Ruins of Gorland—Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan