Newcomers are always welcome!
Movie of the Book Club
The Movie of the Book Club meets every third Tuesday evening at the ShowPlace 8 Theaters to watch a new movie that is based on a book or otherwise connected to literature. A discussion at Perkins Restaurant on Henderson follows.
The next outing is on Tuesday, March 16. We will see the 6:10 pm showing of Alice in Wonderland, then head to Perkins Restaurant for discussion.
If you would like to receives email updates about what movies we are going to see and the exact times of the showings, please send an email message to reference@galesburglibrary.org. Newcomers welcome!
Mark your calendar with the following dates for upcoming movie outings:
| March 16 | April 20 | May 18 |
| June 15 | July 20 | August 17 |
Everyone is welcome, including newcomers! Each regular outing one lucky person wins a gift certificate. If you don't find us at the theater, ask restaurant staff to help you find us. Both the movie and the restaurant are pay-your-own-way.
O Pioneers! As part of the Big Read, the movie O Pioneers! (©Hallmark), based on the book by Willa Cather, will be shown at the library on Wednesday, 3/17, at 6:00 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend this free movie. It stars Jessica Lange as a young woman who must assume responsibility for her family on the Nebraska prairie after her father's death.
Book Clubs
March
In March, both book clubs will read The Middle of Everywhere by Mary Pipher. The book is about the lives of contemporary refugees living in America and is a tie-in to this year's Big Read title, My Antonia by Willa Cather.
The Middle of Everywhere will be discussed at the Tuesday club on 3/9 at 1:00 pm at the library and at the Thursday club on 3/11 at 6:30 pm at Kaldi's Coffeehouse.
The Tuesday discussion will be followed at 2:00 pm by the 40-minute documentary Dying to Get In (©Mooncusser Films), which explores the experiences of immigrants trying to come to the US from Mexico.
April
Both
book clubs will read and discuss the Big Read book in April. My Antonia
by Willa Cather is a classic novel about homesteading on the Nebraska prairie
and a young woman who arrives there from Bohemia in the late 1800s.
The Thursday club will discuss My Antonia on 4/8 at 6:30 pm at Kaldi's Coffeehouse; the Tuesday discussion will take place upstairs at the library on 4/13 at 1:00 pm.
The Tuesday discussion will be followed at 2:00 pm by a showing of Willa Cather: The Road Is All (© PBS), which is a 90-minute documentary about Willa Cather's life.
The Tuesday Book Club meets the second Tuesday of each month at 1:00 pm at the library. The Thursday Book Club meets the second Thursday of each month at 6:30 pm at Kaldi's Coffeehouse.
Book club discussions are open to all, and newcomers are welcome. Copies of the books are available at the library’s Circulation Desk about one month before discussion. To see a list of books that have been discussed recently and the discussion questions, click here.
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Updated March 10, 2010.