Book Discussions
HPL BOOK DISCUSSIONS
Third Tuesday of each month at 2:00 pm
Main Meeting Room (HMA314) / Open to all.
Register and pick up a book at the Customer Services Desk.
Tuesday, January 15
After This
By Alice McDemott
A portrait of an American family during the middle decades of the 20th century evokes the social, spiritual and political turmoil of the era, as seen through the experiences of a middle class couple and their children.
Tuesday, February 19
The Marriage Plot
By Jeffrey Eugenides
Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight and narrow mold when she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Bankhead, while at the same time an old friend of hers resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that madeleine is his destiny.
Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight and narrow mold when she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Bankhead, while at the same time an old friend of hers resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that madeleine is his destiny.
Tuesday, March 19
The Weird Sisters
By Eleanor Brown
The Andreas family is one of readers. Their father, a renowned Shakespeare professor who speaks almost entirely in verse, has named his three daughters after famous Shakespearean women. When the sisters return to their childhood home to card for their ailing mother, and to lick their wounds and bury their secrets, they are horrified to find the others there. The sisters soon discover that everything they have been running from might offer more than they ever expected.
GREAT BOOKS DISCUSSIONS
Mondays Monthly at 7:00 pm
Main Meeting Room (HMA302) / Open to all.
Pick up the anthology Great Conversations I at the Main Library Customer Services Desk for a materials fee of $10.00, payable by check or money order to Huntington Public Library.
Monday, January 28
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
By Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
In this work, written during World War I, in the last years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Sigmund Freud meditates on basic existential questions. He applies psychoanalytic theory to the many dilemmas of a human being's situation in society. Such dilemmas become magnified during a state of war.
Monday, February 25
The Secret Sharer
By Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Considered one of Conrad's greatest sea tales, this work relates the "mysterious communication" between a ship's captain and a naked man, clutching the bottom rung of a ladder. The man tells the captain that he has killed a sailor on another ship and is a fugitive from justice. The captain senses a bond with the "secret sharer" and decides to hide the man in his quarters.
