The Great Books Discussion Group has been meeting at the Main Library since 1986.
Phone: 799-9084
Meets: Second Wednesday each Month at 7 p.m., in the Bank of America Conference Room.
Contact: Moderated by Bill Fickling, please call the library at 929-3457 to register. .
Great Books Discussion Group
January - December 2008
- January 9 Frank O'Connor, "Guests of the Nation"
- February 13 Nadine Gordimer, "Which New Era Would That Be?"
- March 12 Raymond Carver, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"
- April 9 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- May 14 Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem
- June 11 Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Pardoner's Tale" (from The Canterbury Tales)
- July 9 David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (selection)
- August 13 Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defense of Poetry" (selection)
- September 10 Honore de Balzac, "The Unknown Masterpiece"
- October 8 Leo Tolstoy, "Second Epilogue" to War and Peace
- November 12 Rudyard Kipling, "The Man Who Would be King"
- December 10 Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
All selections are from Great Conversations Volume 2 or Great Conversations Volume 3.
Mixed bag - variety of genres. Discussions are led by either Dr. Glenn James or Dr. Rosemary Canfield Reisman
Phone: 799-9084
Meets: 10 a.m. – Noon, Alternating Tuesdays in the Bostick Auditorium at the Main Library (The Tuesday Morning Group will resume after Labor Day)
Contact: please call the library at 929-3457 to register.
September - November 2008
- September 9 The Worst Hard Time: the Untold Story of those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
- September 23 Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
- October 7 The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
- October 21 Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
- November 4 When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy
- November 18 Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers
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