Adult Book ClubsCombined Book Club Potluck time again! We'll be meeting on January 31 to discuss Garden of Lies by Eileen Goudge. Join us! The Holmes Library offers two book discussion groups for adult readers, an evening group and an afternoon group. Please feel free to try either group! Copies of the books are available at the Circulation Desk, or can be reserved through our iBistro catalog. For more information or to sign up, contact Jean for the evening group and Susan for the afternoon group. Traditional Evening Group |
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| January '12 | Garden of Lies by Eileen Goudge | |
| December | The Necklace by Cheryl Jarvis | |
| November | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka |  |
| October | Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo | |
| September | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter | |
| August | Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde | |
| July | A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini | |
| June | Hank & Chloe by Jo-Ann Mapson |  |
| May | Alice's Tulips by Sandra Dallas | |
| April | The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen | |
| March | The Sweet By and By by Todd Johnson | |
| February | Merlot Murders by Ellen Crosby | |
| January '11 | A Perfect Crime by Peter Abrahams | |
| November | Family Acts by Louise Shaffer | |
| October | The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard | |
| September | The Girls by Lori Lansens | |
| August | The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean | |
| July | Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan | |
| June | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows | |
| May | The Penny by Joyce Meyer and Deborah Bedford | |
| April | The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Allen Bradley | |
| March | Sudden Sea by R. A. Scotti | |
| February | Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell | |
| January '10 | The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser | ~ |
| December | In a Gilded Cage by Rhys Bowen | |
| November | Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron (author visit) | |
| October | The History of Love by Nicole Krauss | |
| September | The Widow's War by Sally Gunning |
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| August | The Eleventh Man by Ivan Doig |
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| June | First Light by Philip R. Craig and William Tapply |
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| May | Black Mass by Dick Lehr |
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| April | Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland |
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| March | Limitations by Scott Turow |
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| February | Harriet and Isabella by Patricia O'Brien |
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| January | How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life by Mameve Medwed |
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| December | The Childrens Blizzard by David Laskin |
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| November | Deafening by Frances Itani |
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| October | Blessings by Anna Quindlen |
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| September | North River by Pete Hamill |
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Death in Belmont by Sebastion Junger |
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro |
The Afternoon Readers' Book Club
For more information or to sign up, please contact Susan at (781)293-2271 or by email. This month's selection...
Shadow Tag
by Louise Erdrich
Tuesday,February 21 at 1 pm
When Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and marriage, while turning her Red Diary—hidden where Gil will find it—into a manipulative charade. As Irene and Gil fight to keep up appearances for their three children, their home becomes a place of increasing violence and secrecy. And Irene drifts into alcoholism, moving ever closer to the ultimate destruction of a relationship filled with shadowy need and strange ironies.
Alternating between Irene's twin journals and an unflinching third-person narrative, Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag fearlessly explores the complex nature of love, the fluid boundaries of identity, and the anatomy of one family's struggle for survival and redemption.
Books We Have Read
| January | Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez | |
| December | The Christmas Train by David Baldacci | |
| November | Thanksgiving Night by Richard Bausch | |
| October | The Dressmaker of Khair Khana | |
| Sept. | Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| August | Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde | |
| July | The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff | |
| June | The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny | |
| May | The Postmistress by Sarah Blake | |
| April | The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson | |
| March | Burning Marguerite by Elizabeth Inness-Brown | |
| February | I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn | |
| January'11 | A Perfect Crime by Peter Abrahams | |
| Dec | Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne Fluke | |
| Nov | High Plains Tango by Robert James Waller | |
| Oct | Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| Sept | The Secret by Beverly Lewis | |
| August | Away With the Fairies by Kerry Greenwood | |
| July | Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan | |
| June | Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen | |
| May | Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood | |
| May | Run by Ann Patchett | |
| April | Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi | |
| March | Watchers of Time by Charles Todd | |
| February | The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman | |
| January | A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve | |
| December | The Cat Who Came For Christmas by Cleveland Amory | |
| November | Lily of the Valley by Suzanne Strempek Shea | |