Let's Talk About It!

today is the day!

we're so pleased to offer you a new reading opportunity... as well as a community building opportunity! if you like to read good books and discuss them with good people, then

Let's Talk About It is for YOU!

so now you say, "okay, i'm ready... what do i do?"

1. you come in today! or maybe this weekend (we only have 15 book sets, so you won't want to lollygag)... but you can get your books from the friendly librarians on the 3rd floor!


2. and you read! we're starting with Choice Cuts--because it's short essays, and will be easy to read for our September 21 discussion group meeting.


3. you come to the discussion! please know you DO NOT have to have finished the book to come to discussion. just come and participate!


4. have fun reading these books about food!! and who knows, there maybe regional snacks!
   

if you have any questions, please call the library 612-8642!!

so who won the grand prizes?

well, we are waiting on a few things to be delivered!!

and when everything arrives, we will draw the names for the 4... or i mean 5 winners!

did i mention that we added another grand prize?!

we hope to draw next week, so be on alert!!

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and, now on to the Fall event

Let's Talk About It: We are What We Eat

Food is one of human beings’ favorite obsessions. Most people spend a great deal of time physically and mentally preoccupied with food: we organize and prepare meals, we daydream about what’s for lunch or dinner; we eat. Beyond simply an enjoyable, necessary human pastime, though, eating has important implications for how we think of ourselves, and how we relate to the larger culture.

September 21:
Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History by Mark Kurlansky
Choice Cuts is a wide-ranging anthology of writing about food, spanning the ancients (Plato is represented here, discussing food as medicine) to the turn of the 21st century (Mimi Sheridan writes about bialys, Jewish onion rolls).

October 5 @ 7pm
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Can indulgent food be a force for spiritual liberation, or is it inevitably an invitation to self-indulgent corruption? The novel Chocolat addresses this question through the story of a free-spirited outsider, a woman with a young daughter who arrives in a straight-laced French village and opens a luxury chocolate shop.

October 19 @ 7pm
Mistress of Spices by Chitra Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices is a lyric novel, written in a mixture of prose and poetry, in the style that has been called “magic realism”: while primarily set in this world (specifically, a run-down part of Oakland, California), it includes features which defy natural laws and give it an air of mysticism.

November 2 @ 7pm
Climbing the Mango Trees by Madhur Jaffrey
Climbing the Mango Tree is a delightful memoir of the author’s childhood in mid-twentieth-century Delhi, India. Madhur Jaffrey’s wealthy family lived in an extended-family compound, and her life was rich in cousins, aunts, and uncles.

we have a limited amount of sets of these books. so if you're interested in joining this group, let me know or be here on the 11th of september to check your set out.

also, for those of you who are interested in an IFPL book club, this is an opportunity to test the waters, so to speak. i have high hopes for this reading/discussion group, and that it will naturally "morph" into the IFPL book group. don't be shy--give this a try!