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Book lovers are invited to attend book discussion groups at the Catherine Dickson Hofman Branch Library in Blairstown. For more information, call 908-362-8335.
Evening Literature Club
2011 Book Selections
January 2011
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith
Professor Dr. Von Igelfeld is mistaken for a veterinarian and not wanting to call attention to the faux pas, begins practicing veterinary medicine without a license. He ends up operating on a friend’s dachshund to dramatic and unfortunate effect. He also transports relics for a schismatically challenged Coptic prelate, and is pursued by marriage-minded widows on board a Mediterranean cruise ship.
February 2011
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary praise throughout the world and become a phenomenal international bestseller. The Bookseller of Kabul is startling in its intimacy and its details - a revelation of the plight of Afghan women and a window into the surprising realities of daily life in today's Afghanistan.
March 2011
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.
April 2011
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
Forced to set aside her Ph.D. research in order to help the settling of her late grandmother's abandoned home, Connie Goodwin discovers a hidden key among her grandmother's possessions that is linked to a darker chapter in Salem witch trial history.
May 2011
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
When Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the 20-year-old American twin daughters of her own long-estranged twin, Edie. Valentina and Julia, as enmeshed as Elspeth and Edie once were, move into Elspeth's London flat and through a series of developing relationships a crisis develops that could pull the twins apart.
June 2011
The Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous.
September 2011
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Classic nineteenth-century Russian novel in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society.
October 2011
Miriam's Kitchen by Elizabeth Ehrlich
The author relates how her mother-in-law, a Holocaust survivor, reawakened in her a forgotten love of and need for Jewish rituals and traditions, and provides more than two dozen recipes.
November 2011
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Souief
At the end of the twentieth century, Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, journeys to Egypt to unravel the truth behond her ancestor, an English widow who, in 1901, fell in love with an Egyptian man.
December 2011
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