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Penrose Library Book Clubs

Great Books Classics

2nd Thursdays from 6:45 - 9:00 p.m.

Discussions for adults take place at the Penrose Library in the Adult Meeting Room. Discussions are open to everyone and registration is not required.

Copies of Great Conversations 5 (GC5) are available from the Library.

January 10, 2013 - Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (GC5 - short story)

February 14 - The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness by Reinhold Niebuhr (GC5 - selection)

March 14 - Why Write? by Jean-Paul Sartre (GC5 - essay)

April 11 - No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre (play)

May 9 - Bright and Morning Star by Richard Wright (GC5 - short story)

June 13 - Human Personality by Simone Weil (GC5 - essay)

July 11 - A Still Moment by Eudora Welty (GC5 - short story)

August 8 - Annual summer dinner party for members who have attended previous meetings. Location will be sent out to the email list; we will not meet at Penrose.

September 12 - To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing (GC5 - short story)

October 10 - The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (novel)

November 14 - Edward Hopper and the Geometry of Despair by Geoffrey Bent (essay)

December 12 - Selected poems by e.e. cummings (titles to be announced in November) and planning for 2014

Call 531-6333 x2333 for more information.

Novel Ideas Book Club

Last Wednesdays from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.

This is a fiction book club for teens that meets at Penrose Library.

Call 531-6333 x2338 for more information and the schedule.