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 Chesley Memorial Library on Wednesday, November 6, at 2:00 p.m. to discuss “Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living" by Carrie Tiffany.
From Amazon: “In this sensual, witty, and startlingly original first novel, Jean Finnegan searches for her place in a tumultuous world wracked by the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II. Carrie Tiffany captures the frailty and beauty of the human condition and vividly evokes the hope and disappointment of an era. Billowing dust and information, the government "Better Farming Train" slides through the wheat fields and small towns of Australia, bringing advice to the people living on the land. The train is staffed by irresistibly eccentric agricultural and domestic experts, from Sister Crock, the prim head of "women's subjects," to Mr. Ohno, the Japanese chicken specialist, to Robert Pettergree, a scientist with an unusual taste for soil. Amid the swaying cars full of cows, pigs, and wheat, a strange and swift seduction occurs between Robert and Jean. In an atmosphere of heady scientific idealism they settle in the impoverished Mallee farmland with the ambition of transforming the land through science.” " 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, October 23, at Chesley Memorial Library, at 7:00pm to discuss "The Undoing Project" by Michael Lewis
From Amazon: “Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original papers that invented the field of behavioral economics. One of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, Kahneman and Tversky’s extraordinary friendship incited a revolution in Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. In The Undoing Project, Lewis shows how their Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.” 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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