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Adult Book
Discussion Group
2009-2010
Second Thursday of the Month
6:30 - 8 p.m.
Simsbury Book Club
Final List of Books for 20092010
September
10 David Golder, by Irene Nemirovsky (176 pages) fiction
October 15 What I
Loved by Siri Hustvedt (384 pages)
Fiction
November 12 The
Concubines Children
by Denise Chong (304 pages) biography
December 10 My
Antonia by Willa Cather (176 pages) Classic
January 14 The
Uncommon Reader by
Alan Bennett
(128 pages) Novella
February 11 Killer
Angels, by Michael Shaara (368 pages) historical fiction
March 11 On Chesil
Beach by Ian McEwen (224 pages) fiction
April 8 Captain
Alatriste by A. Perez Reverte (304 pages) historical fiction
May 13 Lush Life
by Richard Price (480 pages) urban crime
fiction
June 10 The Attack
by Yasmina Khadra (272 pages) Fiction |
Mystery Series
2009-20010
Second Monday of the month
12 noon - 1:30 p.m.
Carole Shmurak is the
book discussion leader. She is Professor Emeritus at Central Connecticut
State University and the author of ten books, including two Susan Lombardi
mysteries, Deadmistress and Death by Committee. As Carroll
Thomas, she is the co-author of the Matty Trescott series, one of which (Ring
Out Wild Bells) was nominated for the Agatha for best young adult
mystery of 2001. She has just finished her third Susan Lombardi mystery,
Death at Hilliard High (due out in 2009).
Fall 2009: From Poo Yang to Beijing: Murder on the China Express
China has always seemed to be a place of mystery to Americans and
Europeans. In this series, which spans almost 50 years in publication dates
and hundreds of years in settings of the stories, we will read mystery
novels set in China by Dutch, Scottish, American and Chinese authors.
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September 14 |
The Chinese Bell Murders (1958) - Robert van Gulik |
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October 12 |
Firemaker (1999) - Peter May |
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November 9 |
Death of a Red Heroine (2000) - Qiu Xiaolong |
December 14
(snow date: Tues., Dec. 15) |
Dragon Bones (2003) - Lisa See |
Spring 2010: The Class of
'36
Three award-winning British writers, Robert Barnard,
Reginald Hill and
Peter Lovesey, all born in 1936, have taken to calling themselves
³the class
of '36.² I've added two award-winning American writers
born in the same
year. Will we see any commonalities among them? |
January 11
(snow date: Tues., Jan. 19) |
Bones and Silence (1990) - Reginald Hill |
February 8
(snow date: Tues., Feb. 16) |
Diamond Solitaire (1992) - Peter Lovesey |
March 8
(snow date: Mon, March 15) |
The Corpse at the Haworth Tandoori (1999) - Robert
Barnard |
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April 12 |
Deadly Valentine (1990) - Carolyn Hart |
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May 10 |
Sunset Limited (1998) - James Lee Burke |
TEEN BOOK
DISCUSSION GROUP
Meets the last Wednesday of the month in the
Wagner Conference Room 6-8p.m.
All teens in 7-12th grade welcome!
Please contact discussion leader, Holly at
hollystrong8@gmail.com
with any questions or to RSVP. Dont
have time to RSVP? Dont worry, well
make room!
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Wed. June 24 |
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld |
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Wed. July 29 |
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (2009 Printz
Award Winner) |
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Wed. August 26 |
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith |
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