One Book: One Community Choices

A number of communities in Maine try to get folks in their area to read and discuss the same book. To see if any of these choices might be of interest to your book group, the list and brief descriptions of the books can be found on the Maine Humanities Website at:
Community Book Choices

Lewiston-Auburn Reads! has just chosen their new title. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver -a book about a family that lives on locally and home-grown foods for a year and what they learn about health and diet and food production.

Oprah Reminds Us of Book Club Classic on Women of Haiti

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat was the 1998 Oprah book club choice.

Link to her website: http://www.oprah.com/book_club.html

Brewer Public Library Has Multiple Copies

The Brewer Public Library has a new list of multiple copies available for borrowing:

Time is a River by Mary Alice Munro (12 copies)

Still Alice by Lisa Genova (11)

That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russa (11)

March by Geraldine Brooks (10)

The Amber Room by Steve Berry (11)
Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer (9)

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (9)

Rainwater by Sandra Brown (available in February) (10)

Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian (available in March) (11)

To borrow contact Donna at the Brewer Public Library-207 989-7943.

Rangeley Public Library Reports on Successful Book Group

Our book group has been going strong for almost two continuous years now. I had started the group by brainstorming how I could get more guys involved in book groups. Looking at statistics, most of our male users read non-fiction titles. At the time the television show Survivor was a big hit so I combined these two things together to form a male-orientated book group around the theme of non-fiction survival stories. We have done everything from natural disasters, military operations, to social commentary such as Nickel and Dimed. We have a solid core of seven male patrons who have not missed more than two meetings. We eat a pot-luck dinner, talk about the book, and the guys swap a lot of war stories. It is quite a social event for many of them.