Books Plus Book Discussion Group

What is Books Plus?

It's a once-a-month discussion group which meets at the library to talk about a wide range of books and issues. Books and other media, both fiction and non-fiction, are the springboards for discussing new trends, social issues, genres, best sellers, foreign authors, etc. Each month, the group focuses on one or more books (chosen in advance). A volunteer leads the discussion.

When? Where?

The group usually meets on the first Sunday of each month at 2 p.m. in program room 2B at the downtown public library. Registration is not required.

Who can be a leader?

Anyone who is interested in books and wants to share that interest with others. Arrangements will be made a few months in advance with the discussion leader and the title(s) selected for the meeting.

Refreshments

Refreshments provided by the Friends of the Library.

DON'T forget that we are always looking for volunteer Discussion Leaders

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
"The Great American Novel is something like a unicorn - rare and wonderful.... Yet every few years or so, we trip across some semblance of one.... The Story of Edgar Sawtelle will leave you crying for more." -- Elle Magazine

Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
"This book is as crisp as an October apple, as juicy as an August tomato, as long-awaited at the first flower of spring. Michael Pollan has conceived a new and powerful understanding of who we are, and how we stand in relation to everything else" -- Bill McKibben

Little Bee by Chris Cleave
"A beautifully written, suspenseful, unflinching, haunting novel about two strangers -- a British woman and a Nigerian girl -- who meet on a lonely African beach and become inextricably bound in a tenuous friendship. It may change the way you look at the world."

Emma by Jane Austen
"Austen's novels appear to be compacts of abject truth. Their events are excruciatingly unimportant; and yet, with Robinson Crusoe, they will probably outlast all Fielding, Scott, George Elliot, Thackeray, and Dickens. The art is so consummate that the secret is hidden; peer at them as hard as one may; shake them; take them apart; one cannot see how it is done." -- Thornton Wilder

Next at Books Plus

Sundays at 2 p.m. in Program Room 2B

May 2
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Gray

June 6
Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Discussion Leader: Sarah Bowman

July 11
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Discussion Leader: Wendy Rubin

August 1
Emma by Jane Austen
Discussion Leader: Dory Lynch

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