Book Discussion

Join us for a virtual discussion of this year's selection for the Boston Book Festival's One City One Story: Grace Talusan's "The Book of Life and Death." 

Do you like adventure books? Do you like trivia? If you answer yes to those questions then come join our Virtual Tween Book Club for kids in  grades 4-6.  Read up to chapter 14 for the first meeting. Join us for a Virtual game of trivia.  If everyone has two devices we will play Kahoot!

We will discuss A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.

for ages 16+ and all adults who like to read young adult literature

This month's selection is: 

Determined to find her mother when she disappears, Ash follows her to Quivara, Kansas, the spiritual commune she escaped long ago. But something sinister and ancient waits among the rustling cornstalks of this village lost to time.

We will discuss The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve

Journeying to Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, to shoot a photo essay about a century-old double murder, a photographer becomes absorbed by the crime and increasingly obsessed with jealousy over the idea that her husband is having an affair.