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May Book Club Selections

Submitted by Barbara M on Mon, 05/06/2013 - 2:11pm

Come join a club and meet some people who like to read the same kinds of books that you do.
Here’s what everyone is reading in May:
Afternoon Book Club (1st Tuesday, 3 pm): A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash
Paranormal Book Club (2nd Monday, 7 pm): Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Inspirational Book Club (2nd Thursday, 7 pm): City of Tranquil Light by Bo Caldwell
Tween Homeschool Book Club (3rd Monday, 1 pm): Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Non-Fiction Book Club (3rd Tuesday, 3 pm): The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
History Book Club (4th Tuesday, 7 pm): 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies
After Austen Book Club (Third Monday, 7 pm): I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Mystery Book Club (4th Thursday, 1 pm): Blind Descent by Nevada Barr

Young Adult Book Club

Submitted by Maggie H on Thu, 04/18/2013 - 12:00pm

We will explore popular young adult fantasy and dystopian novels every month at the Young Adult Book Club at the Baldwin Boettcher Library. Our next meeting is Monday, May 12 at 6 PM, and we will be discussing the book Divergent by Veronica Roth.

Name that Genre

Submitted by Gwendolyn M on Tue, 03/26/2013 - 3:32pm

Northwest Branch has a book club which reads most of the fiction genre. The book club is named Reader’s Perspective. Books include romance, legal drama, historical fiction, mystery and when possible the new fiction releases. In our club you do not purchase the books, they are supplied through the library. We are readers of like mind, who like to read and talk. It is a very relaxed book club. We meet every fourth Monday of the month. Would you like to be a part of the book club? Come by the library and pick up your book. We will discuss Suspicion of Innocence by Barbara Parker on April 22nd at 2:00 PM. Come join in the fun.

Science Fiction Book Club

Submitted by Jason V on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 5:27pm

Do you consider yourself a science fiction aficionado? Would you like to discuss some of your favorite titles with fellow sci-fi readers? Northwest is looking to start up a sci-fi book club but we desperately need active participants. If you are interested or know someone who might be, please let us know. As always, if you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to share them with us. We hope to see you in the not-too-distant future!

New Book Club for Senior Citizens

Submitted by Mandy Carrico on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 1:10pm

There's a new book club for seniors at the San Jacinto Community Center in Highlands, TX. This month they are reading The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. The story is about Clare and Henry. Passionately in love, they vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel. Following the discussion, we will screen the movie adaptation starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana.

The Uniqueness of it all

Submitted by Gwendolyn M on Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:55pm

In observance of Black History Month, Readers Perspective Book Club will read a novel called the Wench. This novel was written by Dolen Perkins Valdez. It is a finely wrought story that explores the emotional lives of four slave women caught in the web of the “peculiar Institution” and it sheds light on the racial intricacies of America’s past. We will be discussing the book on February 25, 2013. If you haven’t read it, come by and pick up a copy or just come and sit in on the discussion if you like.

February Book Club Selections

Submitted by Barbara M on Mon, 02/04/2013 - 3:50pm

Here’s what the book club participants are reading in February. Come join a club and meet some people who like to read the same kinds of books that you do.

Afternoon Book Club (1st Tuesday, 3 pm): Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Paranormal Book Club (2nd Monday, 7 pm): Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Inspirational Book Club (2nd Thursday, 7 pm): One Mountain Away by Emilie Richards
Tween Homeschool Book Club (3rd Monday, 1 pm): The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place
Non-Fiction Book Club (3rd Tuesday, 2 pm): Night by Elie Wiesel
History Book Club (4th Tuesday, 7 pm): The Whiskey Rebellion by William Hogeland
After Austen Book Club (Last Monday, 7 pm): Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Mystery Book Club (4th Thursday, 1 pm): Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

A New Book Club For the Evenings

Submitted by Mandy Carrico on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 10:37am

There's a new book club at Stratford for people who love to talk about their favorite books and discover new works but can't make it to the club sessions on Wednesday mornings. Book Club: Evening Edition meets the second Monday of every month at 6 pm. February's book is Adriana Trigiani's The Shoemaker's Wife. Set in the years preceding and during World War 1, two star-crossed lovers--Enzo and Ciro--meet and separate until finally, the power of thei

Join a Book Club!

Submitted by Barbara M on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 4:32pm

Tomball branch currently has eight book clubs! We’ve changed our roster a bit this year: the Mother-Daughter Book Club will end in May when all its ‘daughters’ graduate from high school, and the Classic Readers Book Club ended at the end of last year because, in its move with our new manager from Northwest Branch to Tomball, it lost a critical number of members.

We’ve also created a new book club, the Tween Homeschool Book Club. The Tween Book Club is held during the day and is particularly targeted for homeschooled students, featuring wholesome family-oriented books.

Here’s what everyone is reading in January:

October is National Reading Group Month

Submitted by Luanna Adams on Fri, 10/05/2012 - 10:07am

A book club can be a great thing. If you don’t believe it, there are some outstanding books you can read about book clubs, like Angry Housewives Eating Bon-bons and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. A book club gives you a chance to spend time with people that are a lot like you, or people that are interesting to talk to because they’re different from you. We have a group that was organized through the Fairbanks Library but meets at a r