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Book Club reads “Things Fall Apart”
13/12/2024 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The December read for the book club is “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe. “The novel chronicles the life of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo community, from the events leading up to his banishment from the community for accidentally killing a clansman, through the seven years of his exile, to his return, and it addresses […]
Lire la suite...Book Club reads “Enter Ghost”
15/11/2024 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The November read for the book club is “Enter Ghost” by Isabella Hammad. “Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost centers a West Bank production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet; Sonia, a Dutch Palestinian actress, leaves behind a messy relationship in London to visit her sister in Haifa, a city she hasn’t seen since childhood summers, and finds more than […]
Lire la suite...Book Club reads “Morality Play”
18/10/2024 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The October read for the book club is “Morality Play” by Barry Unsworth. “The national bestseller: A medieval murder mystery full of the wonders of the time―and lessons for our own time―by a master storyteller. The time is the fourteenth century. The place is a small town in rural England, and the setting a snow-laden […]
Lire la suite...Book Club reads “Beloved”
20/09/2024 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The September read for the book club is “Beloved” by Tony Morrison. “Beloved, novel by Toni Morrison, published in 1987 and winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The work examines the destructive legacy of slavery as it chronicles the life of a Black woman named Sethe, from her pre-Civil War days as a slave […]
Lire la suite...Book Club reads “An American Marriage”
20/10/2023 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The October read for the book club is “An American Marriage” by Toyari Jones. “Roy, an up-and-coming executive from the small town of Eloe, Louisiana, and Celestial have been married for a year and a half. The two live in Atlanta, Georgia, where Celestial grew up. A burgeoning artist, Celestial models much of her work […]
Lire la suite...Saturday extension of the Book Club!
19/03/2016 @ 3:00 pm-5:00 pm – The library’s bookclub is expanding to a new group to meet on Saturdays! For anyone who loves to read, socialize in English, and meet new people come join our kickoff meeting on March 19th at 3pm at the library. We’ll be selecting a theme for the books we’ll be reading for the season, setting meeting […]
Lire la suite...Bookclub reads Margaret Atwood
22/02/2019 @ 2:30 pm-4:00 pm – The February read for the bookclub is “Hag-Seed” by Margaret Atwood. Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he’s staging a Tempest like no other. It will boost his reputation. It will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the […]
Lire la suite...Bookclub reads “The Dressmaker”
21/12/2018 @ 2:30 pm-4:00 pm – The December read for the bookclub is “The Dressmaker” by Beryl Bainbridge. Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naive and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbour’s party she falls in love as much […]
Lire la suite...Bookclub reads “The Razor’s Edge”
19/04/2019 @ 2:30 pm-4:00 pm – The April read for the bookclub is “The Razor’s Edge” by W. Somerset Maugham. Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involve him with some of Maugham’s most brilliant characters – his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot […]
Lire la suite...Bookclub reads “Roxana” by Daniel Defoe
23/11/2018 @ 2:30 pm-4:00 pm – The November read for the bookclub is “Roxana” by Daniel Defoe. Beautiful, proud Roxana is terrified of being poor. When her foolish husband leaves her penniless with five children, she must choose between being a virtuous beggar or a rich whore. Embarking on a career as a courtesan and kept woman, the glamour of her […]
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