David Copperfield

VENTRESS LIBRARY CLASSIC BOOK GROUP TO DISCUSS David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2010 FROM 4:30-6

The Ventress Memorial Library in Marshfield hosts an ongoing book discussion group that seeks to delve into classic literature and find fresh insights while considering modern-day perspectives. The next session will meet on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 from 4:30-6:00 in the library's Historical Room. December's featured classic title is "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens. Published in 1850, originally as a serial, this novel is autobiographical and peopled with colorful characters. Click on the link to place the book on hold. Sign up in advance to reserve a seat, or just come on the day to listen. The program is free and open to the public. New members are always welcome. Light refreshments will be served. For more information please contact Chris Woods at 781-834-5535 or visit www.ventresslibrary.org

Main Street

VENTRESS LIBRARY CLASSIC BOOK GROUP TO DISCUSS "MAIN STREET" BY SINCLAIR LEWIS ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2010 FROM 4:30-6

The Ventress Memorial Library in Marshfield hosts an ongoing book discussion group that seeks to delve into classic literature and find fresh insights while considering modern-day perspectives. The next session will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 from 4:30-6:00 in the library's Historical Room. November's featured classic title is "Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis. Published in 1920, this satirical novel was a bestseller and portrays life in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Sign up in advance to reserve a seat, or just come on the day to listen. The program is free and open to the public. New members are always welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

Click on the title's link to place this book on hold or contact the reference librarian Chris Woods for more information.

The Bonfire of the Vanities

VENTRESS LIBRARY CLASSIC BOOK GROUP TO DISCUSS
TOM WOLFE'S "BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2010 FROM 4:30-6pm

The Ventress Memorial Library in Marshfield hosts an ongoing book discussion group that seeks to delve into classic literature and find fresh insights while considering modern-day perspectives. The next session will meet on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 from 4:30-6:00 in the library's Historical Room. October's featured classic title is "Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe. Published in 1987, this novel of social realism portrays greed, politics, and social class in 1980s New York City. Sign up in advance to reserve a seat, or just come on the day to listen. The program is free and open to the public. New members are always welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

Click on the title's link to place this book on hold or contact the reference librarian Chris Woods for more information.

Heart of Darkness

VENTRESS LIBRARY CLASSIC  BOOK GROUP TO DISCUSS
JOSEPH CONRAD'S "HEART OF DARKNESS"

TUESDAY, SEPT 21, 2010  FROM 4:30-6:00

The Ventress Memorial Library in Marshfield  hosts an ongoing book discussion
group that seeks to delve into classic literature and find fresh insights while
considering modern-day perspectives.  The next session will meet on Tuesday,
Sept. 21, 2010 from 4:30-6:00 in the library's Historical Room. September's
featured classic title is "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.  First published
in 1902, this novella of psychological realism traces the narrator's journey
down the Congo River in Africa. The book can be read on many different levels,
and plumbs the depths of the human psyche. Contact reference librarian Chris
Woods if you need a copy of the book. Sign up in advance to reserve a seat, or
just come on the day to listen. The program is free and open to the public. New
members are always welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

Click on the title link for the book to place it on hold!

To Kill a Mockingbird

VENTRESS LIBRARY CLASSIC BOOK GROUP IS CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF "TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD"
TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2010 FROM 4:30-6pm

The Ventress Memorial Library in Marshfield hosts an ongoing book discussion group that seeks to delve into classic literature and find fresh insights while considering modern-day perspectives. The next session will meet on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 from 4:30-6:00 in the library's Historical Room. The group will discuss Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the book's July 11, 1960 publishing date. Set in the American South during the 1930s, the author weaves a story around class and race tensions. The book was voted by librarians as the best novel of the 20th century in a Library Journal survey.

Click on the title's link to place this book on hold or contact the reference librarian Chris Woods for more information.

Beautiful and Damned

VML Classics Book Group
New Member's Welcome!
Next meeting: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 4:30 to 6pm
Place: Ventress Library Historical Room
Title: "The Beautiful and Damned" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Click on the title to place a hold on this book!

Click on "Library Events" for more details!

Interested in attending the next meeting? Come to the library to get the Masterplots plot and character summaries!

Brushing up on the Classics

Interested in brushing up with your classics?
Here is a list of the past titles that the VML Book Group has read:
Click on any title to place it on hold if you have a library card with us or any OCLN library!

"Howards End" by E.M. Forster (currently reading)
"Travels With Charley" by John Steinbeck
"Persuasion" by Jane Austen
"Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham
"Call of the Wild" by Jack London
"The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame
"Death Comes for the Archbishop" Willa Catha
"The Comedians" Graham Greene
"Frankenstein" Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway
"Kristen Lavransdatter" by Sigrid Undset
"Women in Love" by D.H. Lawrence
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"A Death in the Family" by James Agee
"Couples" by John Updike
"Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
"A Passage to India" by E.M. Forster
"Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
"To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf
"The Optimist's Daughter" by Eudora Welty
"A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
"Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
"Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner

Howard's End

Interested in the Classics?
Check out the library's monthly book club!

VML Classics Book Group
New Member's Welcome!
Next meeting: Tuesday May 18, 2010 from 4:30 to 6pm
Library Historical Room

Book: Howard's End by E.M. Forster
Place this book on hold by clicking on the title!

Click on "Library Events" for more details!