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March 14, 2010
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BOOK CLUB RESOURCES

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Fourth Monday Readers

Every fourth Monday of the month at 7:00 p.m. join these spirited discussions of specially selected books. The group meets in the "living room" area of the Fiction Room. Copies of the books will be available at the library and through our interlibrary loan system. For scheduled discussions and book titles see below.

On March 22 the group will discuss Ellington Boulevard by Adam Langer. A rent controlled apartment links a group of quirky tenants, including a soon-to-be-evicted clarinet player and his pooch, Herbie Mann. Langer has written a clever, funny ode to Manhattan and its colorful characters. ---- check the library's catalog



April 26 the group will discuss the Pulitzer Prize winning short story collection, Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout. This is the library's One Book, Everybody Reads selection for 2010. Noted book group discussion leader, Judy Levin will facilitate our discussion of this collection of 13 short stories set in small-town Maine. Through Ms. Strout's masterful writing, the stories are bound together by the larger-than-life, unforgettable title character, Olive Kitteridge. ---- check the library's catalog




Classics and Contemporary

Join this morning book discussion group that meets in the Small Meeting Room on the second Tuesday of each month between 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. for refreshments and discussions of classic and contemporary titles.



Join us on April 13 for a discussion of Wandering Star by J.M.G. Le Clezio. Last year's Nobel Prize winner, Le Clezio often writes tales of survival that are realistic and yet hauntingly romantic. This novel of two young women uprooted by the Holocaust, one Jewish and the other Palestinian, is finely tuned to the paradoxes and problems in each life. ---- check the library's catalog



May 11 the group will discuss Moo by Jane Smiley. In this wonderfully written and masterfully plotted novel, Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley offers us a wickedly funny comedy that is also a darkly poignant slice of life. ---- check the library's catalog



Great Books Discussion Group

The Great Books discussion group, led by Wilmette resident Arthur Arfa, meets on the first Monday of the month at 7:15 p.m. in the Small Meeting Room.

These readings are contained in a single paperback, The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, First Series, volume 1. A copy (R 808.8 GR) is available in the Reference Room on the first floor, and a circulating copy (808.8 GR) is shelved on the lower level. If the circulating copy is checked out, you may request a reserve. To purchase a copy of the book, go to www.greatbooks.org

Senior Book Groups

The library offers two Senior Book Groups where librarians talk about and read from a variety of books both new and old. These programs are held at the Meskill Senior Center, located at the Community Recreation Center, and at Mather Place, 2801 Old Glenview Road. Both groups meet for one hour, and newcomers are always welcome.

The Meskill Senior Center group meets at 10:30 a.m. on the first Friday of every month from September through June.

The Mather Place group meets at 10:30 a.m. on the second Friday of each month from September through June.

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