BOOK DISCUSSIONS
Afternoons or evenings…the choice is yours!
Afternoon Book Club
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The Afternoon Book Discussion Group will meet Wednesday, February 5 at 2:00 p.m. to discuss, "The Wine Lover's Daughter" by Anne Fadiman.
From Amazon: "In The Wine Lover’s Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines--with all her characteristic wit and feeling--her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine.An appreciation of wine--along with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literature--was an essential element of Clifton Fadiman’s escape from lower-middle-class Brooklyn to swanky Manhattan. But wine was not just a class-vaulting accessory; it was an object of ardent desire. The Wine Lover’s Daughter traces the arc of a man’s infatuation from the glass of cheap Graves he drank in Paris in 1927; through the Château Lafite-Rothschild 1904 he drank to celebrate his eightieth birthday, when he and the bottle were exactly the same age; to the wines that sustained him in his last years, when he was blind but still buoyed, as always, by hedonism. Wine is the spine of this touching memoir; the life and character of Fadiman’s father, along with her relationship with him and her own less ardent relationship with wine, are the flesh. The Wine Lover’s Daughter is a poignant exploration of love, ambition, class, family, and the pleasures of the palate by one of our finest essayists." Books that we have read for our afternoon book group over the last 10 years are listed on Pinterest! 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, January 29, 7:00pm to discuss "The Soloist" by Steve Lopez.
From Amazon: "Journalist Steve Lopez discovered of Nathaniel Ayers, a former classical bass student at Julliard, playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles’s Skid Row. Deeply affected by the beauty of Ayers’s music, Lopez took it upon himself to change the prodigy's life—only to find that their relationship would have a profound change on his own." Books that we have read for our evening book group over the last 10 years are listed on Pinterest! Books we have read for evening group: 
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