YPL Book Group, led by Leslie Altman, meets the 3rd Thursday of the month at 2 PM. Newcomers always welcome. Meets in the Simpkins Reading Room.
May: Thursday, May 16th at 2 PM
Judas by Amos Oz
Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abravanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets.
FYI: Past YPL Book Group picks include:
April: Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
March: The Wager by David Grann
February: The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
January: Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
November: This is Happiness by Niall Williams
October: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
September: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
August: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver and David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
June: The Secret River by Kate Grenville
May: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
April: Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin and Hildegarde Serle ______________
Looking Ahead YPL Book Group
June: Thursday, June 17 at 2 PM
Jacquelyn Mitchard will join us! If we want, we can read The Deep End of the Ocean together, or each person can read a title of their choice.
Neighborhood Book Group, led by Rick Woods, meets the 2nd Thursday of the month at 4 PM. Meets in the Gale Room. (Call the library for contact information and further information.)
May: Thursday, May 9th at 4 PM.
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an eighty-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life. He slips back into the past with ever mounting frequency and intensity, and on the tide of these vivid, lyrical musings, Feathers approaches a reckoning with his own history. Not all the old filth, it seems, can be cleaned away.
FYI: Past Neighborhood Book Group picks include:
April: Chasing Bright Medusa: A Life of Willa Cather by Benjamin Taylor
My Antonia by Willa Cather
March:”Not the End of the World: How we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet" by Hannah Ritchie
February: The Overstory by Richard Powers
January: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
December: News of the World by Paulette Jiles
November: Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl
October: The Book of Everlasting Things by Aanchal Malhotra
September: East of Eden by John Steinbeck & Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
May: Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe _____________