BOOK DISCUSSIONS
Afternoons or evenings…the choice is yours!
Afternoon Book Club
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The Afternoon Book Discussion Group will meet at the library on Wednesday, June 5, at 2:00 p.m. to discuss "Unless" by Carol Shields
From Amazon: "Forty-four-year-old Reta Winters, wife, mother, writer, and translator, is living a happy life until one of her three daughters drops out of university to sit on a downtown street corner silent and cross-legged with a begging bowl in her lap and a placard round her neck that says "Goodness."" Books we have read for our afternoon group:\ pinterest.com/chesleylibrary/afternoon-book-discussion/ |
Evening Book Club
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The Evening Book Discussion Group will meet on Wednesday, May 22, at Chesley Memorial Library at 7:00pm to discuss "Furiously Happy" by Jennifer Lawson
From Amazon: “In Furiously Happy, number-one New York Times best-selling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best. As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling your husband first because you suspect he would say no since he's never particularly liked kangaroos. And that would be ridiculous because no one would invite a herd of kangaroos into their house. Two is the limit. I speak from personal experience. My husband says that none is the new limit. I say he should have been clearer about that before I rented all those kangaroos. ... Furiously Happy is about "taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they're the same moments we take into battle with us when our brains declare war on our very existence. It's the difference between "surviving life" and "living life". It's the difference between "taking a shower" and "teaching your monkey butler how to shampoo your hair." It's the difference between being "sane" and being "furiously happy."" Books that we have read for our evening book group over the last 10 years are listed on Pinterest! 
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