Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Adult Book Discussions coming in May

Tuesday, May 12 at 1:30 p.m. Daytime Book Discussion Group: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver. (Novelist)

Thursday, May 21 at 7:00 p.m. Original Book Discussion Group: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. The story of Dinah, a tragic character from the Bible whose great love, a prince, is killed by her brother, leaving her alone and pregnant. The novel traces her life from childhood to death, in the process examining sexual and religious practices of the day, and what it meant to be a woman. (Novelist)

Thursday, May 28 at 7:00 p.m. Science Fiction Book Discussion Group: The Way the Future Was by Frederik Pohl. Pohl tells with a great eye to relevant detail about being a pulp editor, a fan, and an author and agent. (Amazon.com)

Copies will be available soon at the circulation desk. For more information, please call (732) 721-5600 ext. 5033.

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