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09/11/2018 00:00
Addison 1st Tues. of month 3:30 PM. Community Contact Joyce...
05/24/2016 00:00
For me, the summer is a time to clear the palette with an intensive diet of mysteries and spy novels that perk up my powers of deduction without making any demands on my "literary" sensibilities. Lately I find that a juicy mystery works to sharpen the appetite all year long. ...
04/16/2016 10:28
So our longest continuing reading group is hitting 30 years. What a run. What a bunch of dedicated readers. What a delight. We've tackled short stories, novels and plays. We've ranged from medieval to modern times. We've crossed continents, genders and...
04/16/2016 10:25
Several years ago I offered a book swap service for members of different groups to exchange books and cut down expense. No one took me up on it, so I have to assume you are all pretty comfortable with the arrangements you have made. I know many readers are able to download books from...
10/11/2013 09:59
In 1825 Edgar Allen Poe invented the short story by setting down the rules for the form. And yet, in the almost 200 years of its development, the story has been the baby sister of the novel -- a fledgling waiting to grow up. The 2013 awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature announces to the...
10/10/2013 09:44
There was an interesting conversation in the New York Times about the connection between reading literary fiction and having a strong degree of empathy for others. The first wave of responders were English teachers and members of book clubs as you would imagine. Then there were...
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