Freedom to READ

Our book group has the tradition that every year we celebrate banned book week. Each of us read a banned book and then come back ready to tell about it, why, where, & when it was banned, and if we agree.

This year we have been given the choice to read To Kill a Mockingbird and/or read a banned book of your choice. We will meet on October 12 at 6pm. If you need help finding a banned book or want to see a list please call or stop by and I will be glad to help. I can also show you how to look up the reason, place and date of the challenged book.

We should all be thankful that we have the freedom to read what choose and we shouldn't take that choice away from others. Celebrate banned book with us September 24 through October 1, 2011.

September 2011

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Join us for the discussion of
City of Bones
on September 14th at 6:00pm

This is about a fifteen year old girl named Clary and her life will never be the same after she meets the Shadowhunters. Other teens who keep the world safe by hunting demons. She never would have guessed that she holds the magic that would play such an important roll in saving the world from demons taking over. This is very, very good. Full of demon hunting, magic and saving the world--by teens. It is book one in the Mortal Instrument series.

August Discussion

The Island by Victoria Hislop

Book group selection for
August 10, 2011 at 6:00

Alexis has never been told her mother's family history and her mother, Sophia, won't even talk about it. She has been told that her mother grew up on Crete in the village Plaka and while visiting there her mother has given her one name to look up. It is Fotini a friend from her past.

Alexis learns her family's history from Fotini who tells her the tragic tale of her Sophie's family. Which involves family members who had been sent to Spinalonga that was a leper colony at the time. Alexis also learns why her mother has kept silent for all these years. A history that contained sickness (leprosy), emotions of hope and loss, and even the murder of a family member.