Book Clubs
Love great books? So do we.
Second Friday Book Club
Join other book lovers every second Friday of the month for a lively discussion of selected books.
Informal book chatter begins at 11:30 a.m. followed by a moderated book discussion at Noon. No registration required. This is an online event. Join us on Zoom each month.
Upcoming Second Friday Book Club Titles
Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters. Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has, but when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness. Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, The Correspondent is a gem of a novel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person.
January 9 — Flesh by David Szalay
Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbor – a married woman close to his mother's age – as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that Istvan himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control. As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the twenty-first century's tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London's super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely. Spare and penetrating, Flesh is the finest novel yet by a master of realism, asking profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.
Millennials Ruin Book Club
Meets every third Wednesday of the month.
A Millennial is a person generally born in the ‘80s or ‘90s, known for ruining many aspects of society... and now we’re coming for book club. Join our librarians for a no-pressure, read-what-you-want book club every third Wednesday of the month. Talk about what you’ve read, what you’re currently reading, and what you’re reading next.
New members are always welcome. Register online for the Zoom link.
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For more information about our book clubs, please call (561) 868-7701.