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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.


2008
(ONLINE BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION)

August 20, 2008
Movie Presentation
Pale Male (2003)

Documentary film about the Fifth Avenue red-tailed hawks and their loyal following of “hawkwatchers”.
Narrated by Joanne Woodward. (54 minutes)

 
October 1, 2008
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver
Nonfiction: 384 pp.

Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life, and diversified farms at the center of the American diet.


November 5, 2008
Walking Across Egypt, by Clyde Edgerton
Fiction: 227 pp.

She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would walking across Egypt – which not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn. She’s Mattie Rigsbee, an independent, strong-minded senior citizen who, at seventy-eight, might be slowing down just a bit. When teenage delinquent Wesley Benfield drops in on her life, he is even less likely a companion than the stray dog. But, of course, the dog never tasted her mouth-watering pound cake. . .

 
November 19, 2008
Movie Presentation
Walking Across Egypt (1999)

Starring: Ellen Burnstyn, Mark Hamill, Judge Reinhold, and Jonathan Taylor Thomas. (110 minutes)

 

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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?