Jan 2, 2014 ... Thursday, March 6th. Room by Emma Donoghue. A 5-year-old narrates a riveting
story about his life growing up in a single room where his ...
BOOKWORMS BOOK CLUB The Bookworms Book Club is a reading group for adults that meets at 1:00 on the first Thursday of each month. All are welcome to read along with us and attend our discussions in the library meeting room. No registration is required.
2014 BOOK LIST Thursday, January 2nd
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway’s most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal—a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. The film version of The Old Man and the Sea will be screened at this meeting.
Thursday, February 6th
Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini Chosen as the personal modiste for Mary Todd Lincoln, freedwoman Elizabeth Keckley is drawn into the intimate life of the Lincoln family as she supports Mary in the loss of her husband from the assassination that stunned the nation and the world.
Thursday, March 6th
Room by Emma Donoghue A 5-year-old narrates a riveting story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who has held her prisoner for seven years since she was a teenager.
Thursday, April 3rd
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert A multi-generational saga of the Whittaker family, whose progenitor makes a fortune in the quinine trade before his daughter, a gifted botanist, researches the mysteries of evolution while falling in love with an utopian artist against a backdrop of the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.
Thursday, May 1st Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter Follows a young Italian innkeeper and his almost-love affair with a beautiful American starlet, which draws him into a glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.
Thursday, June 5th
Time and Again by Jack Finney Transported from the mid-twentieth century to New York City in the year 1882, Si Morley walks the fashionable "Ladies' Mile" of Broadway, is enchanted by the jingling sleigh bells in Central Park, and solves a 20th-century mystery by discovering its 19th-century roots. Falling in love with a beautiful young woman, he ultimately finds himself forced to choose between his lives in the present and the past.
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BOOKWORMS BOOK CLUB 2014 BOOK LIST Page 2 Thursday, July 3rd Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro A reunion with two childhood friends--Ruth and Tommy--draws Kath and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into the supposedly idyllic years of their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the serene English countryside, and a dramatic confrontation with the truth about their childhoods and about their lives in the present.
August - No meeting Thursday, September 4th
American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts', suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. But nothing is quite as it seems.
Thursday, October 2nd
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding In a new phase of Bridget's life in contemporary London, she faces the challenge of maintaining her sex appeal, engages in drunken texting, and despairs of fitting into skinny jeans.
Thursday, November 6th
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah, a young girl caught up in the raid.
December - No meeting
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” ― Charles William Eliot
