BOOK DISCUSSIONS
Afternoons or evenings…the choice is yours!
Afternoon Book Club
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The Afternoon Book Discussion Group will meet Wednesday, April 8, at 2:00 p.m. to discuss "Stag's Leap" by Sharon Olds.
From Amazon: "In this wise and intimate telling—which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending—Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love’s sight; the surprising physical bond that still exists between a couple during parting; the loss of everything from her husband’s smile to the set of his hip. Olds is naked before us, curious and brave and even generous toward the man who was her mate for thirty years and who now loves another woman. As she writes in the remarkable “Stag’s Leap,” “When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it’s I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.” Olds’s propulsive poetic line and the magic of her imagery are as lively as ever, and there is a new range to the music—sometimes headlong, sometimes contemplative and deep. Her unsparing approach to both pain and love makes this one of the finest, most powerful books of poetry Olds has yet given us." 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, March 25, at 7:00 p.m. to discuss "Dark Tides" by Stephen Puleo.
From Amazon: "Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston’s North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window—“Oh my God!” he shouted to the other men, “Run!” A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston’s waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire station. The number of dead wasn’t known for days. It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster." 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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