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Book Discussion Groups |
| Frisco Public Library offers many unique book clubs. If you are interested in participating in any of the clubs, please feel free to join us on the day we meet. Details for each club are listed below. |
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Classic Readers |
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Classic Readers meets regularly on the third Wednesday of the month at 10:00 a.m. at the Frisco Senior Center located at 6670 Moore St. in the Frisco Town Square. Classic Readers is open to adults ages 50+ and their spouses. |
Next Meeting:
Wednesday, July 16
10:00 a.m.
Frisco Senior Center
The Photograph
by Penelope Lively |
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In Booker Prize winner Lively’s stunning novels, the past and present form a yin-yang-like balance, and her keen and agitated characters fall into two camps. One, comprising dogged professionals, is obsessed with imposing order on life, and is driven mad by the other, which consists of more sensitive and improvisatory souls, such as Kath, the dead woman at the center of this elegant yet electrifying tale. As the reader wonders about the nature of Kath’s death, Lively, a master of the whip-crack phrase and arch and dissecting humor, craftily reveals the culpability of Kath’s survivors: her ambitious husband, Glyn, a renowned landscape historian who can discern subtle evidence of ancient forts yet remains oblivious to his wife’s emotions; Kath’s frosty older sister, Elaine, a hugely successful garden designer; and Elaine’s once “beguiling” now “exasperating” husband, Nick. Kath returns to haunt these smug souls after Glyn finds an incendiary photograph that calls into question everything this little coterie thought they knew about themselves and each other. As lovely but lonely Kath comes into ever sharper focus through the lens of each character’s increasingly stressed consciousness, Lively offers provocative musings on work, obsession, the burden of beauty, alienation of affections, and the endless longing for love. (Booklist May 1, 2003) -- Donna Seaman
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Dear Reader Online Book Club |
| Dear Reader Online Book Club offers several categories to choose from, including good news, business, romance, science fiction, and more! Each day, Monday through Friday, the library emails subscribers a portion of a book that takes about five minutes to read. This amounts to two or three chapters from a book during the week. Each week the library features new books. |
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Reader's Choice |
| Reader's Choice meets the fourth Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the library, in the first-floor cafe area. Open to all adults. |
Next Meeting:
Tuesday, July 22, at 7 p.m.
First Floor -- In the Coffee Shop area
The Blue Star
by Tony Earley |
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Jim Glass, a 17-year old in rural North Carolina in 1941, finds life is not as simple as it once was, as he confronts not only the eternal turmoil of love, but venality and the frightening calls of duty and war. The story tenderly deals with sex, race, and class. The author has created people, old and young, that you want to know and want to listen to, even when they're struggling to figure out what they think and feel.
Join us as we discuss this novel and other favorite books at the July 22 meeting of Reader’s Choice. |
Sign up for additional information and reminders about the Classic Readers or Reader's Choice book clubs at http://www.generousbooks.com/.
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Youth Book Clubs |
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Looking for Youth Book Clubs, information on Just for Kids Book Club is available
at http://www.friscolibrary.com/youth/kids/whats_happening.htm#BookClub.
Information on Teen Book Club is available at http://www.friscolibrary.com/youth/teens/whats_happening.htm#TBC. | |
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