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Slide Notes
Newcomers are always welcome in the Mead Public Library fiction book group. We meet the third Thursday evening of every month. Conversations are centered around books, which means we talk about life, death, conflict, romance, grief, greed, and every emotion under the sun.
Please join us!
For more information, contact Nanette Bulebosh at msbosh@gmail.com or
920-946-9482
Please join us!
For more information, contact Nanette Bulebosh at msbosh@gmail.com or
920-946-9482
we talk fiction
Published on Nov 18, 2015
Spring 2014 fiction book group selections at Mead Public Library in Sheboygan
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we talk fiction
Mead Public Library's 2014 fiction book group
Newcomers are always welcome in the Mead Public Library fiction book group. We meet the third Thursday evening of every month. Conversations are centered around books, which means we talk about life, death, conflict, romance, grief, greed, and every emotion under the sun.
Please join us!
For more information, contact Nanette Bulebosh at msbosh@gmail.com or
920-946-9482
Please join us!
For more information, contact Nanette Bulebosh at msbosh@gmail.com or
920-946-9482
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local & far away
From Wisconsin to the world and back again
We try to include at least one book by a Wisconsin author each season. There are so many to choose from!
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Spring 2014 schedule
- Jan 16 Off Keck Road
- Feb 20 Light in August
- Mar 20 Arcadia
- April 17 A Northern Light
- May 15 The Things They Carried
All sessions begin at 6:30 p.m. We meet in the third floor meeting room of Mead Public Library, 710 8th Street, Sheboygan, WI
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off keck road
by Mona Simpson
We start off with Wisconsin native Mona Simpson's story of friendship, change over time and sacrifice.
Off Keck Road takes place in Green Bay, the author’s birthplace. It follows the lives of three women from the 1950s to the beginning of the 21st Century.
After escaping to Chicago and a successful career in advertising, Bea comes back home to care for her mother, rekindle old friendships and live more peacefully. Simpson’s novella is quieter than her previous books, but full of insight and a few quirky characters who may remind you of some of your neighbors.
Off Keck Road takes place in Green Bay, the author’s birthplace. It follows the lives of three women from the 1950s to the beginning of the 21st Century.
After escaping to Chicago and a successful career in advertising, Bea comes back home to care for her mother, rekindle old friendships and live more peacefully. Simpson’s novella is quieter than her previous books, but full of insight and a few quirky characters who may remind you of some of your neighbors.
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A tale of change, social mores, and business roles for women in 1950s Green Bay. Simpson's characters are quirky, ambitious and anxious to experience the world.
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Light in August
By William Faulkner
Light in August is a haunting exploration of race, sex, class and religion as only Faulkner can offer.
The story loosely follows young Lena as she searches for the father of her unborn child, but many other memorable figures put in an appearance.
Written in 1932, it is now considered one of the best novels of the 20th Century.
The story loosely follows young Lena as she searches for the father of her unborn child, but many other memorable figures put in an appearance.
Written in 1932, it is now considered one of the best novels of the 20th Century.
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Faulkner's brilliant masterpiece: A haunting exploration of race, class, sex, and religion set in 1920s Mississippi.
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arcadia
Lauren Groff
Arcadia is a touching story of a utopian hippie commune in the 70s, told from the point of view of Bit, the first child to be born there (in an old VW).
Sad, but also playful and, at times, riotous, the story is about going home again, when home is far from what idealists had once hoped.
Sad, but also playful and, at times, riotous, the story is about going home again, when home is far from what idealists had once hoped.
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The failed revolution: Growing up in a 70's era commune wasn't the utopia Bit's parents had promised.
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A Northern Light
By Jennifer Connolly
Set in 1906 in the Adirondack Mountains, this coming-of-age novel weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something quite moving.
A 16-year-old girl, still reeling from her mother's death, takes a job at an upscale resort to escape her troubles, only to get caught up into very adult drama and trauma.
It was loosely inspired by Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
A 16-year-old girl, still reeling from her mother's death, takes a job at an upscale resort to escape her troubles, only to get caught up into very adult drama and trauma.
It was loosely inspired by Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
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A fictional account of the mystery behind the murder of a resort chambermaid in 1906, when passions were high and class was everything
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The things they carried
by Tim O'Brien
This now classic work of American literature, about a platoon of soldiers in Vietnam, continues to change minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene in 1990.
It's a ground-breaking set of related stories about war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
It's a ground-breaking set of related stories about war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
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O'Brien's groundbreaking vignettes about his Vietnam War platoon bring us to war, memory, imagination and the redemptive power of storytelling
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