Jesse M. Smith Library: Discussion Group

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The Jesse M. Smith Memorial Library

Meeting Schedule

Next Meeting:
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at 7:00 p.m.

The group meets on the third Tuesday of each month (except July, August, and December) at 7:00 p.m. in the library. All interested persons are welcome to attend.
The group reserves the right to alter the list at any time. If you are an irregular attendee or new to the group, please call or visit the library's website in advance to be sure of the scheduled title.
If you would like to join a book discussion group, but the time of our meetings is not convenient for you, please check out the Other Book Discussion Groups page which lists other library book discusson groups in RI.

Readers Resolutions

Book Discussion Calendar 2007-2008:

September 18
This month we will choose selections for the upcoming 2007–2008 months.

October 16
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

November 20
Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop

December -- no meeting

January 15
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

February 19
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

March
The library will be closed this month to prepare for the Grand Opening of the new library.

April 15
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

May 20
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

View a list of the books previously discussed by the group.

Additional Book Discussion Groups Wanted

Our book discussion group has been going strong since 2000, and it continues to attract new members. But we've been thinking that there may be other readers out there we haven't reached. Readers who would enjoy book discussions but find the present selection of titles or meeting times not quite right for them.
We would be happy to provide space for additional discussion groups if they would like to meet here, and the library will also assist with researching discussion questions and background material.
If you'd like to take part in a Mystery Discussion Group or Science Fiction, Non-Fiction, Mother/Daughter, Books made to Movies, or any other area of focus, let us know and we will start a list of those interested.
Book discussions are stimulating and just plain fun! So, if you have an idea, please call the library 401-568-8244 and let us know. Thanks!

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Books we have discussed:

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Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Sense & Sensibility by Austen
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
He, She, and It by Marge Piercy
Midwives by Bohjalian
The Rapture of Canaan by Reynolds
The Color of Water by McBride
Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne DuMaurier
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg
New Passages by Gail Sheehy
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Posessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Books by Thomas Wolfe
A Boy Called H by Kappa Senoh
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Under Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes
The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
2003
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Any original Nancy Drew mystery by Carolyn Keene
Any Inspector Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie
Sister of My Heart by Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni
A Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh
A Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Wish You Well by David Baldacci
A Country Year by Sue Hubbell
Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler
2004
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
— and/or The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul
The Third Witch by Rebecca Reisert
— and Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Hornet's Nest by Jimmy Carter
2005
Lord Baltimore by Stephen Doster
Chasing Rumi: A Fable About Finding the Heart's True Desire by Roger Housden
The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
2006
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story by Lisa Fiedler
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Molokai by Alan Brennert
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer
2007
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl by Kate McCafferty
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Children of Men by P. D. James

You can place a hold on any book in the OSL catalogue using your OSL card. Or, if you purchase books online through the library's Amazon.com link, the library will get a commission.

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