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Participation in the Book Discussion Group and Mystery Book Group is free and open to all interested adults (co-ed). No registration is necessary - just read the book and come to the meeting. You can come to just one meeting, or come to all! Both groups meet from 7:00 - 8:45 PM in the Community Room (lower level).

This is a structured group that follows the Great Books program. This year the group will be reading selections from the Fifth Series. Discussions are led by 2 group leaders, and follow the Shared Inquiry method. The group meets from 7:00 to 8:45 PM in the Community Room (lower level). For more information, call 978-448-8000. 

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GPL Book Discussion Group Reading List - 2007/2008
Date Title Author
September 25, 2007 Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
*featuring a visit from the author
Kris Holloway
October 23 The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan
November 27 Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh
December 18 Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany Bill Buford
January 22, 2008 The Time Traveler’s Wife: A Novel Audrey Niffenegger
February 26 A Long Way Home: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah
March 25 Never Let Me Go
Kauzo Ishiguro
April 22 Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet /
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Charlotte Gordon /
Stephen Puleo
May 27 Last Town on Earth: A Novel Thomas Mullen
June 24
*pot luck dinner at a member’s home
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death Jean-Dominique Bauby

 

GPL Mystery Book Group Reading List - 2007/2008
Date Title Author
September 20, 2007 Perfect Match Jodi Picoult
October 18 Counterpoint: A Murder in Massachusetts Bay
Margaret Press
November 15 Net Crimes and Misdemeanors Jayne Hitchcock
December (No meeting in December)
January 17, 2008 Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine Joseph K. Loughlin
February 21 Deadly Valentine Carolyn G.Hart
March 20 Death of an Irish Politician: the first
Peter McGarr mystery
Bartholomew Gil
April 17 (meeting cancelled)
May 15 River of Darkness Rennie Airth
June TBA
July TBA
August TBA

 

GPL Great Books Group Reading List - 2007/2008
Date Title Author
September 20, 2007 First Principles of Morals Immanuel Kant
October 11 A Simple Heart Gustave Flaubert
November 8 Of Personal Identity
(from Book 1 of A Treatise of Human Nature)
David Hume
December 13 Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche
January 10, 2008
February 28 The Inferno Dante Alighieri
March 13 The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams
April 10 King Lear William Shakespeare
May 8 On Tragedy Aristotle
June 12 The Republic Plato

4/23/08