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MacKay Library Has a New Phone Number 978-256-5521 x6

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The staff at the MacKay Library hosts a variety of book discussion groups. The Mystery Group has been meeting for 13 years. Novel Conversations evolved out of the Oprah Book Group that began in 1998.

 

 Mystery Group

Mystery Group meets on the
4th Wednesday of the month
at 6:45 PM

August 25, 2010
David Dickinson and Joanne Fluke

September 22, 2010
Robert Barnard and Deborah Crombie

 The Mystery Group picks two authors a month. Members read books by those authors and come prepared to discuss why they enjoyed these books (or why they did not like them.) Were earlier books better crafted than more recent ones? Have characters developed over the years? Do you get a true sense of the place where the story is set? What good Mystery books have people read recently?

The MacKay Library will have a variety of the featured authors' books available for loan in the month preceding each discussion.
Novel Conversations Book Groups

This popular daytime book group usually meets on the first Friday of each month at noon at the MacKay Library.

Novel Conversations will not meet in July and August
Here's the list of what we'll be reading next year.

Novel Conversations 2010-11 Book List

Sept 3, 2010 "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck

Oct. 1, 2010 "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield

Nov. 5, 2010 "Let the Great World Spin By" by Colum McCann

Dec. 10, 2010 Holiday Party

Jan. 7, 2011 "Still Alice" by Lisa Genove

Feb. 4, 2011 "The Irresistible Henry House" by Lisa Grunwald

Mar 4, 2011 "Mountains beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder

Apr 1, 2011 "Testimony" by Anita Shreve

May 6, 2011 "Shanghai Girls" by Lisa See

June 17, 2011 "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

If you would like to join or learn more about these groups, call the MacKay Library at 978-256-5521.

  

 

    
 
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