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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)

May 5
Interview with Comfort Food author Kate Jacobs
Come for tea and conversation via video and phone link.

June 2
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson (Fiction)

July 7
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (Fiction
)
In conjunction with the Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment of the Arts

August 4
Counting Coup: A true story of basketball and honor on the Little Big Horn, by Larry Colton (Non-Fiction)
434p.
On many Indian reservations, high-school basketball has become a popular venue for expressing the pride of Native Americans. Yet for all the promise these young Indian athletes exhibit, few are able to overcome the negative forces--poverty, alcoholism, teen pregnancy, poor education--that surround them. Colton, a former professional baseball player and veteran author, spent 15 months on the Crow reservation in Montana observing the Hardin High School girls' basketball team. He focuses on the players--especially talented Sharon LaForge--and their relationships with their teammates and coaches, but he also explores the social conditions that affect the players' lives.

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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?