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Join a May Book Discussion at the Algonquin Area Public Library District

Join a May Book Discussion at the Algonquin Area Public Library District. Everyone is welcome to join in any or all book discussion groups. Just pick up a book and come to a meeting.

 

Join a book discussion group this May!

The Algonquin Area Public Library District hosts regular adult book discussion groups. Groups to join are Book Clubbers, Spine-Crackers Book Discussion, Classics Book Club, and Nite Readers Book Club. Each group meets monthly at different times.

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Everyone is welcome to join in any or all book discussion groups. Just pick up a book and come to a meeting. You’re still invited to sit in and listen, even if you were unable to finish the book by the scheduled meeting date.  There is no registration necessary, just join the conversation!

 

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Book Clubbers, Thursday, May 2 @ 7 pm

Please join us for a discussion of “My Name is Mary Sutter” by Robin Oliveira. Traveling to Civil-War era Washington, D.C., to tend to wounded soldiers and pursue her dream of becoming a surgeon, headstrong midwife Mary receives guidance from two smitten doctors and resists her mother’s pleas for her to return home.

 

Spine-Crackers Book Discussion, Friday, May 3 @ 10 am

Adults are invited to join us for book discussions on a variety of books.  On May 3, join in a discussion of “Remarkable Creatures” by Tracy Chevalier. Marry Anning uncovers a fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home and sets the religious fathers on edge.

 

Classics Book Group, Wednesday, May 15 @ 7pm

Join us for a discussion of “A Doll’s House” by Henrick Ibsen. Even if you haven’t read the book, stop by and see what we’re all about! “A Doll’s House” is a story of Nora Helmer. Nora has everything a young housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, and a bright future.

 

Nite Readers Book Club, Thursday, May 16 @ 7 pm

This month Nite Readers Book Club will be discussing “The Elegance of the Hedgehog” by Muriel Barbery. It follows the lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve year-old Paloma Josse. Both are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu

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