Non-Fiction Group: @ 2 PM

Book to be discussed: At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell

The author describes one of the twentieth century’s major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it. Three such thinkers met in Paris in 1933 over apricot cocktails. Interweaving biography and philosophy, the book features not only philosophers, but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries.

Fiction Group: @ 3:30 PM

Book to be discussed: The Hours by Michael Cunningham 

The life and work of Virginia Woolf influences a group of contemporary characters struggling with love and inheritance, hope and despair. Woolf’s last days are a counterpoint to the fictional stories of a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and of his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to have a rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family.

Movie to also be discussed.

Book clubs are open to ALL! Books are available to borrow at the library.