Join us at the Alachua Branch for a fun monthly book discussion. Each month we will select one Adult Fiction or Nonfiction title to read and discuss it as a group. Meetings will be held on the third Tuesday of each month at 2 p.m. in the Meeting Room. Copies of the current book will be available upon request at the Circulation Desk. To confirm availability, please call 386-462-2592
Currently Reading:
Tuesday, August 19, 2:00 p.m., Alachua Branch Meeting Room
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today. (Goodreads)
Upcoming Meetings:
September 16 - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
October 21 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Previously Read:
The Wager: a Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann
The Water Dancer by Ta-Hahisi Coates
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Maid by Nita Prose
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
Interested in other book clubs? Learn about all our groups on our Book Clubs page.