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Join your friends and neighbors for coffee and lively, informal, adult book discussions. There are no registration fees. Anyone may join the group at any time. We meet every first and third Wednesday of the month @ 1:00pm, except for the third week in December. Come to Hamburg Library to pick up a copy of the following titles before the dates below. The library provides information about the authors whose books we discuss.


2010
 (ONLINE BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION)

October 6
Ada Blackjack, by Jennifer Niven (Non-Fiction, 431p.)

November 3
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, by Brady Udall (Fiction, 423p.)

December 1
A Pearl in the Storm, by Tori Murden McClure (Non-Fiction, 292p.)

2011

January 5
Horse Soldiers, by Doug Stanton (Non-Fiction, 407p.)

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 SOME GENERIC QUESTIONS TO ASK ABOUT ANY BOOK
 

  1. What do you think the title means?
  2. Why do you think the author opened the book this way?
  3. Did the jacket copy give you a fair idea of what the book would be like?
  4. What other books that the group has read could this one be compared to?
  5. How autobiographical is this book?
  6. Are the male or female characters more vividly and fully drawn?
  7. Why has the author chosen this particular narrator?
  8. Under what conditions did you read the book (all in one sitting, short hits each night, etc.)? Was this a good or bad way to read it?
  9. Did this book make you want to read anything else by the same author? Why or why not?
  10. Why was this one picked?