February Book Club Meeting

The next meeting for the MCL Book Club will be on Wednesday, February 18 at 10 AM. We will be discussing Burial Rites by Hannah Kent.

This literary debut is “a retelling of real-life events from 1828 Iceland, when Agnes Magnusdottir and two others are convicted and sentenced to death in a brutal double murder thought to have been motivated by greed and jealousy. As Iceland’s primitive prison system is ill equipped to house death row inmates, a local farm family is prevailed upon to board Agnes until the date of her execution.” -From Library Journal

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Below you’ll find links containing more information about Burial Rites and Hannah Kent, including discussion questions:

• LitLover’s Reading Guide to Burial Rites
• Hannah Kent’s Website
• Hannah Kent Answers Reading Group Questions
• Reading Guide Questions from Book Browse
• Notes for Reading Groups – From Picador Australia Publishing 

 

January Book Club Meeting

In January, we revived the Morris County Book Club for 2015. As our inaugural book, we read We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler.

“As a girl in Indiana, Rosemary, Fowler’s breathtakingly droll 22-year-old narrator, felt that she and Fern were not only sisters but also twins. So she was devastated when Fern disappeared. Then her older brother, Lowell, also vanished. Rosemary is now prolonging her college studies in California, unsure of what to make of her life. Enter tempestuous and sexy Harlow, a very dangerous friend who forces Rosemary to confront her past”. – Booklist starred review

Welcome!

Welcome to the Morris County Library’s Book Club Blog where we will be posting about past and upcoming book club selections. To learn more about upcoming book club dates, click on the “Book Club Selections and Dates” tab. To view books that we have read in the past, click on the “Past Selections” tab.  Check back to the blog regularly for updates, discussion questions, and discussion overviews.

We hope you can join us  at one of our meetings!

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