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New members are welcome at the Book Group: just contact Karen or Morag here at the library if you want to join.

Water Street Bookstore hosts a book group discussion held at the Loaf and Ladle one Sunday of each Month at 3 p.m. This month's selection is Mister Pip by Llyod Jones. Please join Liz Whaley for a great discussion on Sunday. For more information call us at 603 778 9731.

Queen Anne Books welcomes all interested readers to its drop-in, no-guilt book club. We get together the first Wednesday and second Monday of every month, so pick the day that works best for you and join us at 7:00. No reservation or sign-up is needed-- just drop by. Sign up for Patti's email list if ... (more)you would like to receive reminders, discussion links and summaries.

Queen Anne Books welcomes all interested readers to its drop-in, no-guilt book club. We get together the first Wednesday and second Monday of every month, so pick the day that works best for you and join us at 7:00. No reservation or sign-up is needed-- just drop by. Sign up for Patti's email list if ... (more)you would like to receive reminders, discussion links and summaries.

EAGLE HARBOR READERS CIRCLE

Our store-sponsored book group meets in the bookstore on the first Tuesday of each month at 7pm to discuss the best in fiction and nonfiction, with the occasional classic thrown in for fun. Newcomers and drop-ins are always welcome!


July ... (more)1st: MISTER PIP by Lloyd Jones

n a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations.
So begins this rare, original story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. As artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape. As Mr. Watts says, "A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe." Soon come the rest of the villagers, initially threatened, finally inspired to share tales of their own that bring alive the rich mythology of their past. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced to live by their wits and daily survival is the only objective, imagination can be a dangerous thing.

Admission €8.00/€6.00. "Rebellion and rites of passage in the South Seas link two vivid tales of survival from two very different historical perspectives."

Tickets £10. "Helen Dunmore’s novel, Counting the Stars, tells the story of the poet Catullus’ tormented relationship with his secret mistress, Clodia – the subject of his most passionate verse – set against the backdrop of Julius Caesar’s Rome. Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip, set ... (more)on a strife-riddled tropical island in New Guinea where a single white man re-tells Dickens’ Great Expectations to the rapt inhabitants, is a haunting tour-de-force which has become an international best-seller. Helen Dunmore was the first winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, Lloyd Jones, who lives in New Zealand, is a prolific writer."