Newcomers are always welcome!
Movie of the Book Club
The Movie of the Book Club meets at least every third Tuesday evening, usually 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.
Our next regular outing will be on Tuesday, September 21. The exact title and time will be announced the week before.
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!
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.
The excellent Masterpiece Theater production of The Woman in White (2005) will be shown upstairs at the library on Thursday, 10/28, at 5:30 pm. Free! And if you feel inspired, wear white!
The Life of Birds Documentary
The PBS/BBC series The Life of Birds is the definitive program on birds. The series traverses the globe, covering 42 countries and examining over 300 different species of the world’s largest animal group. The 10-part series will be shown at the library once a month over 10 months from August 2010 to May 2011. Each episode is about an hour long. The schedule for the first five episodes is as follows:
|
To Fly or Not to Fly |
8/24 |
6:30 pm |
|
The Mastery of Flight |
9/28 |
6:30 pm |
|
Insatiable Appetite |
10/26 |
6:30 pm |
|
Meat Eaters |
11/30 |
6:30 pm |
|
Fishing for a Living |
12/28 |
6:30 pm |
Book Clubs
September
When she was about to turn 50, Phoebe Snetsinger was told
she had less than a year to live. She decided to spend that year traveling the
world in search of birds. As it turned out, her doctors were wrong, but Phoebe’s
passion had been ignited and she spent the next eighteen years crisscrossing the
globe recklessly staking out her quarry. By the time she died in a bus accident
while birding in Madagascar in 1999, she was world renowned and had seen more
species—8,500 of the roughly 10,000 bird species—than anyone in history. In
Life List, author Olivia Gentile details the fine line between dedication
and obsession.
You are invited to discuss Life List with one of the library’s book clubs in September. The Thursday Club will meet at the Cherry Street Restaurant, jup the street from the library, on Thursday, September 9, at 6:30 pm.
The Tuesday Club will meet upstairs at the library at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, September 14. The author will join us by phone. The documentary Opposable Chums: Guts & Glory at the World Series of Birding (©BoulderOak Films) will be shown at 2:00 pm after the discussion on September 14. You are welcome to come watch the movie even if you do not attend book discussion; if you arrive early, please take a seat and wait for the discussion to conclude.
October
A
penniless teacher falls in love with his beautiful young student Laura, engaged
to the villainous (and much older) Sir Percival Glyde. The teacher leaves, Laura
dies, and her devoted half-sister Marian is determined to uncover the truth
about what happened. And who is the mysterious woman in white who appears and
disappears? First published 150 years ago, The Woman in White by Wilkie
Collins is one of the first mystery novels and one of the finest “sensation”
novels of the Victorian age. You are invited to
discuss The Woman in White with one of the library’s book clubs in
October.
The Tuesday Club will meet upstairs at the library at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, October 12. We’ll take a trip to northern England (where The Woman in White is set) at 2:00 pm by watching A Spectacular Aerial Journey Across Cumbria (©BNT). You are welcome to come watch the movie even if you do not attend book discussion; if you arrive early, please take a seat and wait for the discussion to conclude.
The Thursday Club will meet to discuss The Woman in White on Thursday, October 14, at 6:30 pm at the Bean Hive Coffeehouse (formerly Kaldi's).
The excellent Masterpiece Theater production of The Woman in White (2005) will be shown upstairs at the library on Thursday, 10/28, at 5:30 pm. Free! And if you feel inspired, wear white!
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 Cherry Street Restaurant 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 September 10, 2010.