Book Group
Join us to discuss books in a small group setting. We meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month via Zoom. We check in at 10:45 AM, then start the discussion at 11:00 AM, which lasts for about an hour. We select the books as a group every August, choosing from all genres. The discussion is always stimulating, lively and respectful.
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To join the meeting on Zoom, go to our online calendar by clicking below.
For more information please contact Ann Nelson by clicking the button below.
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Upcoming Books
October: Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kristen Miller
November: Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
December: No Book Group meeting
January: Empress of the Nile by Lynne Olsen
February: The Dry by Jane Harper
March: Raising Hare by Chloe Walton
April: The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
May: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
June: My Friends by Fredrik Backman
July: No Book Group meeting
August: Book selection meeting
Recent Reads
Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray
The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Calahan Henry
The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
Long Island by Colm Toibin
God of the Woods by Liz Moore
James by Percival Everett
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
Up Home: One Girl's Journey by Ruth J. Simmons
A Memory of Violets by Hazel Gaynor
About our October book:
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
by Kirsten Miller
"Kirsten Miller has that rare ability to take a serious subject and make it very, very funny. I enjoyed this novel and you will too."--James Patterson
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The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.
Beverly Underwood and her arch enemy, Lula Dean, live in the tiny town of Troy, Georgia, where they were born and raised. Now Beverly is on the school board, and Lula has become a local celebrity by embarking on mission to rid the public libraries of all inappropriate books--none of which she's actually read. To replace the "pornographic" books she's challenged at the local public library, Lula starts her own lending library in front of her home: a cute wooden hutch with glass doors and neat rows of the worthy literature that she's sure the town's readers need.
What Lula doesn't know is that a local troublemaker has stolen her wholesome books, removed their dust jackets, and restocked Lula's library with banned books: literary classics, gay romances, Black history, witchy spell books, Judy Blume novels, and more. One by one, neighbors who borrow books from Lula Dean's library find their lives changed in unexpected ways. Finally, one of Lula Dean's enemies discovers the library and decides to turn the tables on her, just as Lula and Beverly are running against each other to replace the town's disgraced mayor.
That's when all the townspeople who've been borrowing from Lula's library begin to reveal themselves. That's when the showdown that's been brewing between Beverly and Lula will roil the whole town...and change it forever.