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Brown Bag Book Discussion Group
Summer Film Series
Back by popular demand, the Friends will again have a summer film series hosted by Janice Rudolf. The film series will feature the movies of Fred Astaire. The programs will take place on the first four Tuesdays of August at 7:00PM in the Community Meeting Room. The films are free and all are welcome. The movie schedule is as follows:
Who Are the Friends?
We are a nonprofit all-volunteer organization dedicated to providing support for the services and resources of the Goodnow Library.
What Do Friends Do?
We organize fundraisers to support:
· The Museum Pass Program (Please click for more information. )
· Adult Programs and Concerts
· Children's Programs and Concerts
· The Library Collections
· Copiers and Printers
We provide education about library programs and services through numerous channels, including:
· The Friends Newsletter
· Local Publications
· Cable TV
· Brochures
We supplement the following Library Collections:
· CDs
· Videos / DVDs
· Language Tapes / CDs
· Audio Books
· Art Prints
We administer the All Occasion Gift Program (Please click for more information. )
· Anniversary, birthday, and memorial gifts
What Are Friends For?
The Friends Provide:
· Sunday Afternoons at Goodnow Series
· Adult Programs and Concerts
· Film Series
· Author Series
The Friends of Goodnow Library Need You!
Please Join Us!
Friends’ Membership Supports
The Museum Passes
Adult Programs and Concerts
Children’s Programs and Concerts
The Library Photocopiers
Guest Authors
CDs/DVDs
Art Prints
Membership brochures are available at the circulation desks.
It is easy to join. Membership contributions are tax deductible and eligible for corporate matching gifts.
Please make checks payable to:
Friends of the Goodnow Library
21 Concord Road
Sudbury, MA 01776
Please print the
membership form and enclose it with your contribution. You may also pick up a membership brochure/form at the Library, if you prefer.
Thank you for your support.
The Friends of the Goodnow Library
Book Discussion Group
On the second Tuesday of every month, The Friends of the Goodnow Library sponsor The Brown Bag Book Discussion Group at Wingate at Sudbury from 11:30 a. m. - 1 p. m. The public is invited to attend, and there is no charge. The group is informal, and you may join at any time with no future commitment required. Book selections are chosen by the group. Participants are encouraged to bring a bag lunch and beverages are provided.
The Brown Bag Book Discussion Group meets at
136 Boston Post Road (Route 20)
Sudbury, MA 01776
Bring your lunch! Coffee and tea provided!
Summer 2010 titles:
June 8th 11:30 am-1 pm
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
by Bill Bryson
After
living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United
States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that
nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he
later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new
and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour
dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item.
Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm a
Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the
land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one
man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an
extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to
after twenty years away. From the Trade Paperback edition.
July 13th 11:30 am-1 pm
Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy
Jihad
vs. McWorld is a groundbreaking work, an elegant and illuminating analysis
of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus religious
and tribal fundamentalism. These diametrically opposed but strangely intertwined
forces are tearing apart--and bringing together--the world as we know it,
undermining democracy and the nation-state on which it depends. On the one hand,
consumer capitalism on the global level is rapidly dissolving the social and
economic barriers between nations, transforming the world's diverse populations
into a blandly uniform market. On the other hand, ethnic, religious, and racial
hatreds are fragmenting the political landscape into smaller and smaller tribal
units. Jihad vs. McWorld is the term that distinguished writer and
political scientist Benjamin R. Barber has coined to describe the powerful and
paradoxical interdependence of these forces. In this important new book, he
explores the alarming repercussions of this potent dialectic for democracy. A
work of persuasive originality and penetrating insight, Jihad vs. McWorld
holds up a sharp, clear lens to the dangerous chaos of the post-Cold War world.
Critics and political leaders have already heralded Benjamin R. Barber's work
for its bold vision and moral courage. Jihad vs. McWorld is an essential
text for anyone who wants to understand our troubled present and the crisis
threatening our future.
August 10th 11:30 am-1 pm
by Deborah Weisgall (Lincoln Resident)
The
year is 1880 and the place is Venice. Marian Evans-whose novels under the pen
name George Eliot have made her one of the most famous Englishwomen of her
time-has come to this enchanted city on her honeymoon. Newly married to John
Cross, twenty years her junior, she hopes to put to rest all of her guilt. For
twenty-five years, until his death, Marian lived with George Henry Lewes, a man
she never married. She took tremendous risks and paid a high price for that
illicit union, but she also achieved great happiness and created important art.
Now she wants to be happy again. In this new marriage in this new place, can
this writer give herself the happy ending that she gave to "Middlemarch's"
Dorothea Brooke? The parallel story of a sculptress named Caroline Spingold
brings us to Venice one hundred year later, in 1980. Linked by city, as well as
by themes of art, love, and marriage, "The World Before Her" tells of these two
women-and their surprising similarities-in alternating chapters. Caroline's
powerful, older, wealthy husband has brought her to Venice against her will to
celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. She once spent a perfect childhood
summer here with her parents before her father left her mother and had wanted
never to return. In a city where the canals reflect memory as much as light, two
women separated by a century confront desire-and each assesses what she has and
who she is. At the heart of this sumptuously and evocatively written novel is
the eternal dilemma of how to find love and sustain it, without losing one's
self and personal ambition in the process.
September 14th 11:30 am-1 pm
F.
Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of Tender Is the Night, "If you
liked The Great Gatsby, for God's sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de
force but this is a confession of faith. " Set in the South of France in the
decade after World War I, Tender Is the Night is the story of a brilliant
and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and
dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the
beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between
sanity and madness. In Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald deliberately set
out to write the most ambitious and far-reaching novel of his career,
experimenting radically with narrative conventions of chronology and point of
view and drawing on early breakthroughs in psychiatry to enrich his account of
the makeup and breakdown of character and culture. Tender Is the Night is
also the most intensely, even painfully, autobiographical of Fitzgerald's
novels; it smolders with a dark, bitter vitality because it is so utterly true.
This account of a caring man who disintegrates under the twin strains of his
wife's derangement and a lifestyle that gnaws away at his sense of moral values
offers an authorial cri de coeur, while Dick Diver's downward spiral into
alcoholic dissolution is an eerie portent of Fitzgerald's own fate. F. Scott
Fitzgerald literally put his soul into Tender Is the Night, and the
novel's lack of commercial success upon its initial publication in 1934
shattered him. He would die six years later without having published another
novel, and without knowing that Tender Is the Night would come to be seen
as perhaps its author's most poignant masterpiece. In Mabel Dodge Luhan's words,
it raised him to the heights of "a modern Orpheus. "