At Tredyffrin Public Library
Open Minds • Read It & Steep • Science Book Discussion Group
History Book Club • Great Books Discussion Group
At Paoli Library
Mystery Book Club • Art Book Club
Book Groups at Tredyffrin Public Library
Open Minds Book Group
Meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 2 pm. New members are always welcome. Any questions, contact Gretchen Chamberlin at gchamberlin@ccls.org or 610.688.7092 x 203
Open Minds 2018 Selections:
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January 16:
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder Physical Book |
February 20:
Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Halprin |
| March 20:
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann Physical Book |
April 17:
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Physical Book |
| May 15:
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen |
June 19:
by Gabriel Tallent Physical Book |
My Absolute Darling| July 17:
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan |
August 21:
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Physical Book |
| September 18:
Circe by Madeline Miller Physical Book
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October 16:
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje Physical Book |
| November 20:
There There by Tommy Orange Physical Book |
December 18:
Less by Andrew Sean Greer |
Open Minds 2019 Selections:
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January 15:
Still Life by Louise Penny Physical Book |
Open Minds Book Group Selections since 2015
Read It & Steep Book Group
Read It & Steep welcomes readers with a love of non-traditional titles, scrumptious treats & spirited conversation. Read It & Steep meets on the third Tuesday of each month from 7-8:30 pm. New members are always welcome. Any questions, contact Kate Boyle at cboyle@ccls.org or 610.688.7092 x 217
Read It & Steep 2018 Selections:
| January 16:
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay |
February 20:
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah |
| March 20:
Canceled due to snow |
April 17:
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi |
| May 15:
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri |
June 19:
Fences by August Wilson |
| July 17:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou |
August 21:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie |
| September 18:
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Physical Book
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October 16: Meeting Canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience. |
| November 20:
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo |
December 18:
The Wangs Vs. The World by Jade Chang |
Read It & Steep Selections since 2012
Science Books Discussion Group
Meets on the third Thursday of every month at 7:30 pm. New members are always welcome. Any questions, contact Valerie Green at vgreen@ccls.org or 610.688.7092 x 213
Science Book Group 2018 Selections:
| December 20:
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli |
Science Book Group 2019 Selections:
| January 17:
The Weather Detective by Peter Wohlleben
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February 21:
The Rise & Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte |
| March 21:
When Einstein Walked with Godel by Jim Holt |
Complete List of Science Book Group Selections 2000 – 2018
History Book Group
History buffs are invited to join this bimonthly book group at Tredyffrin Public Library. Members select the topic for each meeting and are free to read titles of their choosing and to participate in discussion of the topic at the next meeting. The group meets at 7 pm.
History Book Group 2018 Topics
- Tuesday, January 23
- Topic: The Rise of China since the early 20th Century
- Tuesday, March 27
- Topic: History of immigration in the United States since the 1840s
- Tuesday, May 22
- Topic: The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Tuesday, July 24
- Topic: Robert F. Kennedy
- Tuesday, September 25
- Jazz Age: the 1920s
- Tuesday, November 27
- The Middle East from the End of World War I to the Present
Great Books Discussion Group
Meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 pm. New members are always welcome. Any questions, contact John Dalton at jd5258875@aol.com or 484.444.2435
2018 Selections:
- January 9: Point Omega by Don DeLillo
- February 13: Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (will be emailed to participants)
- March 13: Selections from 100 Great Short Stories: “The Judgment,” “A Country Doctor,” and “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka
- April 10: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- May 8: Indignation by Philip Roth
- June 12: Selected Sonnets (will be emailed to participants) Meeting elsewhere
- No meeting in July 0r August
- September 11: All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
- October 9: Selections from Edith Pearlman’s Honeydew, pages 3-46
- Tenderfoot
- Dream Children
- Castle 4
- November 13: Selections from Edith Pearlman’s Honeydew, pages 47-86
- Stone
- Her Cousin Jamie
- Blessed Harry
- No meeting in December
2019 Selections:
- January 8: Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra
- February 12: Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
- March 12: Achilles by Elizabeth Cook
- April 9: Selections from Edith Pearlman’s Honeydew, pages 87-127
- Puck
- Assisted Living
- What the Ax Forgets the Tree Remembers
- May 14: Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
- June 11: Selections from Edith Pearlman’s Honeydew, pages 128-173
- The Golden Swan
- Cul-de-sac
- Deliverance
Book Groups at Paoli Library
Mystery Book Club
The Mystery Book Club will meet at 10:30 AM at Paoli Library on the second Monday of each month. Join us as we discuss mysteries under the following themes:
Mystery Book Club 2018 Themes:
- January 8: Mysteries featuring Native Americans
- Suggested Titles:
- The Drowning Man by Margaret Coel
- Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger
- Dark Reservations by John Fortunato
- A String of Beads by Thomas Perry
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- February 12: Mysteries set in India or South Asia
- Suggested Titles
- The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
- A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear
- The Caretaker by A.X. Ahmad
- The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter
- Suggested Titles
- March 12: Mysteries by Sue Grafton
- Suggested Titles
- April 9: Family Secrets
- Suggested Titles
- A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
- Burnt River by Karin Salvalaggio
- The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley
- In the Woods by Tana French
- Suggested Titles
- May 14: Art Related Mysteries
- Suggested Titles
- A Bed of Scorpions by Judith Flanders
- The Kings of London by William Shaw
- Art in the Blood by Bonnie Macbird
- Return to Umbria by David P. Wagner
- Suggested Titles
- June 11: Mysteries set in Italy
- Suggested Titles
- Cold Tuscan Stone by David P. Wagner
- The Girl of His Dreams by Donna Leon
- Paganini’s Ghost by Paul Adam
- The Track of Sand by Andrea Camilleri
- Suggested Titles
- No meeting in July
- August 13: The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn
- September 10: Cold Cases
- Suggested Titles
- The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
- A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
- The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
- The Drop by Michael Connelly
- Suggested Titles
- Special Date & Meeting Location: October 15 outside of the meeting room: Laura Lippman
- Suggested Titles
- Canceled! Feel free to share your political thriller at our December meeting. November 12: Political Mysteries
- Suggested Titles
- These Honored Dead by Jonathan F. Putnam
- The Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry
- The President is Missing by Bill Clinton & James Patterson
- First Family by David Baldacci
- Suggested Titles
- December 10: Holiday Mysteries
- Suggested Titles
- Holiday Murder by Leslie Meier
- A Holly, Jolly Murder by Joan Hess
- Slay Bells by Kate Kingsbury
- Resorting to Murder edited by Martin Edwards
- Suggested Titles
For more information or to sign up, contact Beverly Michaels at 610.296.7996 or bmichaels@ccls.org.
Art Book Club
The Art Book Club will meet on the following Wednesdays at 6:30 PM at Paoli Library. For more information or to sign up, contact Victoria Skelly at victoriacskelly@gmail.com or call Paoli Library at 610.296.7996.
Art Book Club 2018 Dates and Selections:
- January 24: Everybody Was So Young by Amanda Vail
- “Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented, and wealthy expatriate Americans, they were at the very center of the literary scene in Paris in the 1920s. In this story Vaill brilliantly portrays both the times in which the Murphys lived and the fascinating friends who flocked around them. Whether summering with Picasso on the French Riviera or watching bullfights with Hemingway in Pamplona, Gerald and Sara inspired kindred creative spirits like Dorothy Parker, Cole Porter, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald even modeled his main characters in Tender is the Night after the couple. Their story is both glittering and tragic, and in this sweeping and richly anecdotal portrait of a marriage and an era, Vaill “has brought them to life as never before.”-amazon.com
- March 14: The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
- “These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt’s narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling–about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. Beautifully written, intensely observed.” –amazon.com
- May 23: Goya by Robert Hughes
- “Underlying the exhaustive, critical analysis of the the life and art of Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes is Hughes’s own intimately personal relationship to his subject. This is a book informed not only by lifelong love and study, but by his own recent experiences of mortality and death. As such this is a uniquely moving and human book; with the same relentless and fearless intelligence he has brought to every subject he has ever tackled, Hughes here transcends biography to bring us a rich and fiercely brave book about art and life, love and rage, impotence and death. This is one genius writing at full capacity about another—and the result is truly spectacular.” –amazon.com
- No meeting in June, July, or August
- September 19: The Unknown Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac
- “One of Balzac’s most celebrated tales, this is the story of a painter, who depending on one’s perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius. The story, which has served as inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette is, in critic Dore Ashton’s words, “a fable of modern art.” –amazon.com
- November 14: Georgia O’Keeffe by Nancy J. Scott
- “Nancy Scott’s thoroughly researched book on Georgia O’Keeffe reads like a novel. Using the artist’s own words to bring her alive, Scott offers a fresh perspective on the painter’s life and work within the context of world events. This introduction to one of the 20th century’s most influential American artists should appeal to novice and scholar alike.” –Lisa Mintz Messinger, former curator to the Metropolitan Museum
- December 12: The Music Lesson by Katherine Weber
- “Patricia Dolan defines herself as an art historian, and as an Irish American. When she is 41, the combination of the two proves explosive, leading her to a rough cottage in West Cork. In Ireland she has for company only her own words, one elerly neighbor, and The Music Lesson, a beautiful Vermeer executed on Wood. As she anticipates the arrival of Mickey, her distant relative and lover, Patricia slowly, tantalizingly reveals the events that have led her to this place, involving a radicalized cousin and a plot to kidnap and ransom the Vermeer, property of the Queen of the United Kingdom. The painting, she tells herself fervently, “is an instrument of magic.” Perhaps now it is also an instrument of change, a talisman, the charm that will force powerful people to pay attentino and take decisive action at last.” –amazon.com
Art Book Club 2018 Dates and Selections:
| January 9:
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Painter |
March 13:
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt |
| May 8:
The Glamour of Strangeness by Jamie James |
No meetings in June, July or August |
| September 11:
‘Swann in Love’ a novella in Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust |
November 13:
Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer |
| December 11:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
Art Book Club Selections since 2015