Newcomers are always welcome!
Movie of the Book Club
The Movie of the Book Club meets in the evening at least once a month on the third Tuesday to watch a new movie at the AMC Showplace or a newly released DVD at the library. The group sees movies based on books or otherwise connected to literature whenever possible. A discussion at Perkins Restaurant on Henderson Street follows.
The next outing will be on Tuesday, February 21. If it's playing, we'll probably see The Lady in Black, but 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!
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.
Adult Book Clubs
February
In Mary Helen Stefaniak's The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia, narrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a new schoolteacher turns her hometown upside down. Miss Grace Spivey is a well-traveled young woman who believes in field trips, Arabian costumes, and reading aloud from her ten-volume set of One Thousand Nights and a Night. The real trouble begins when she decides to revive the annual town festival as an exotic Baghdad Bazaar.
The Thursday group will meet at the Beanhive Coffeehouse on Thursday, February 9, at 6:30 pm. The Tuesday group will meet upstairs at the library on Tuesday, February 14, at 1:00 pm. Author Mary Helen Stefaniak will join the group by phone at 2:00 pm following the February 14 discussion.
The Tuesday Book Club meets at the library the second Tuesday of each month at 1:00 pm. The Thursday Book Club meets the second Thursday of each month at 6:30 pm at the Beanhive Coffeehouse. Book club discussions are open to all, and newcomers are welcome. Copies of the books are available at the Check-Out Desk about one month in advance.
To see a list of books that have been discussed recently and the discussion questions, click here. For discussion questions for the Harry Potter books, click here.
Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club
The library is starting a new science fiction/fantasy book club. The first discussion will be of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, on Friday, February 17 at 6:00 pm at Alternate Realities (238 E. Main St.). Please contact Jane at the Reference Desk (343-6118 or jane.easterly@galesburglibrary.org) if you have questions about the club. Copies of the book are available at the library's Check-Out Desk.
Area book clubs are invited to take advantage of a new service at the library. Book club kits are now available. Each kit contains 5 to 24 copies of a book and a set of discussion questions. One member of a club can check out the kit, distribute books to the club members, collect the books after discussion, and return the kit to the library. This is an easy way for a book club to find enough copies of a book for everyone in the club. The kits check out for six weeks. They are located in the library near the Spanish Collection, at the start of the Nonfiction section.
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Updated February 1, 2012.