Hear what others think about a book, and then share your own ideas. You don’t have to create a book club to do it, because The Malden Public Library already hosts two discussion groups:
THE BOOKER PRIZE DISCUSSION GROUP meets at 7:00 p.m. in the library on the fourth Wednesday of each month. Since 1969, the “Booker Prize” has been awarded to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan, or South Africa.
Upcoming Books:
• May 23, 2012 – Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
Summary of Knowledge of Angels:
The ordered tranquility of a fifteenth century Mediterranean island is shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other, a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves, who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence becomes the subject of a dangerous experiment. But the arrival of the Inquisition on the island creates a darker, more threatening force which transforms what has been a philosophical game of chess into a matter of life and death.
• June 27, 2012 – Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
• July 25, 2012 – The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
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THE MONDAY BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP meets at 7:00 p.m. in the library on the first Monday of each month to discuss titles selected by members of the group.
Upcoming Books:
• June 4, 2012 – Rabbit Run by John Updike
Summary of Rabbit Run:
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty—even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path, an invisible line toward his own salvation as straight as a ruler’s edge.
• July 2, 2012 – Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Just pick a group that’s convenient! New members are always welcome! Copies of books for discussion are available at the information desk.
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Every Friday at 4:00 p.m. (except during school vacation), Laurie Rae Tressler from Library Creative Drama, Inc. offers a drop-in Creative Drama program for kids. Children ages 7-10 can come by to participate in theater games and other creative activities. No registration necessary. (This program runs from October 7 through June 15. Regular attendance is appreciated, but not required.)