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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.


2007
 (ONLINE BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION)

4/2/08 -- Spyder Web, by Tom Grace, 451pp. FICTION.
Former Nacy SEAL Nolan Kilkenny leads a US government hunt for a computer program that enables industrial crimes.

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4/17/08 -- The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan, 340pp. NON-FICTION.
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Egan's account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage

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AUTHOR VISIT (6:30pm): 4/29/08 -- Tom Grace.
Tom Grace will discuss his latest novel, "The Secret Cardinal", in which Nolan Kilkenny returns in an adventure that races from the grandeur of the Vatican across the vastness of Asia, ultimately involving China, the Mafia and the conclave of cardinals that will elect the next pope.

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5/7/08 -- Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, by Terry Ryan, 351pp. NON-FICTION.
Meet Evelyn Ryan, mother of six sons and four daughters, who kept the family afloat during the 'contest era' of the 1950's and 1960's by writing jingles and entering TV, radio, newspaper and direct-mail contests.

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AUTHOR VISIT (6:30pm): 5/7/08 -- Bob Tarte, author of "Enslaved by Ducks"

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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?