Springing Ahead...Book Choices for the Upcoming Months

Thank you everyone who voted in our survey! Based on your feedback, our upcoming book discussions will be:

March 15^th – The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

April 19^th – Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler

May 17^th – Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

June 21^st - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

We will meet at 7pm in the library's Sivess meeting room.

If you need assistance placing a book on hold, please contact jen @ southriverlibrary.org. Limited copies of this month's book will be available at the circulation desk.

Rock the Vote: Spring 2016 Book Choices Survey

Please help us decide on the next books we will read. Click on the survey link below and choose THREE of the 10 titles that you'd like to read. The top three books voted on will be our book choices for March, April, and May.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K7WGK8P

This survey will close on Tuesday, February 23, so get your vote in before then!

February 2016: Lonely Hearts Club

Yesterday we gathered to talk about The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. We had a lively discussion about this book while enjoying some light refreshments based on the prom party described in the book.

“And then after supper it would be time for the party. She went into the kitchen to see about the refreshments. … The refreshments were on top of the stove. There were peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and chocolate snaps and punch. … She didn’t feel like herself at all. She was somebody different from Mick Kelly entirely. … The close walls around her seemed to press in all the excitement. She felt so different from the old Mick Kelly that she knew this would be better than anything else in all her whole life – this party.”  - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, Part Two, Chapter 1

Below are some additional resources that may of interest to those who have read the book.

- About the author: http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Timeline-of-Carson-McCullers-Life-Success-and-Works_1

- Important themes in the novel:

• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/lonelyhunter/themes.html
• http://www.neabigread.org/books/lonelyhunter/readers-guide/

- "The Lonely Hunter" poem by Fiona MacLeod (pseudonym for William Sharp), a line from which became this book's title: https://archive.org/stream/writingsoffionam07macl/writingsoffionam07macl_djvu.txt

- Information about the movie based on this book: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063050/

- 2014 painting by artist Joe Simpson inspired by the book: http://www.joe-simpson.co.uk/gallery/london/paintings/the-heart-is-a-lonely-hunter.aspx#.VsS_s7QrIdU

- Discussion questions:

• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/lonelyhunter/study.html
• http://www.neabigread.org/books/lonelyhunter/readers-guide/discussion-questions/
• http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Your-Guide-to-Understanding-The-Heart-Is-a-Lonely-Hunter

We had a great time and hope you'll join us for the next discussion!