Fairwood Library Afternoon Book Group

The Fairwood Library Book Group meets on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 11:30am in the Meeting Room. The meetings usually last 1 1/2 hours.

2009 Schedule:
June 10 -- Call if you need me : the uncollected fiction and prose by Raymond Carver
July 8 -- Book cafe, bring whatever book you would like to talk about. The July meeting will be held offsite from the library.  Please call for directions, 425-226-0522.
August 12 -- Book cafe, bring whatever book you would like to talk about.
Sep 9 -- "Gentlemen of the Road" by Michael Chabon
Oct 14-- !Book and Movie Month! -- "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen -- Book version will be the 2003 Penguin Classics updated edition
-- Edited with an Introduction by Ros Ballaster, also with the original 1969 Penguin Classics Introduction by Tony Tanner -- "Sense and Sensibility" movie versions: 2008 BBC Video miniseries DVD (174 minutes) and/or 1995 Emma Thompson/Kate Winslet movie DVD
Nov 11 --  "Bridge of Sighs" by Richard Russo The November meeting will be held offsite from the library.  Please call for directions, 425-226-0522.
Dec 9 -- !Holiday Potluck! -- and -- "A Year without 'Made In China': One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy" by Sara Bongiorni

2010 Schedule:
Jan 13 -- "Dreamers of the Day" by Mary Doria Russell
Feb 10 -- "The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel" by Michael Chabon
Mar 10 --  "A Thread of Grace" by Mary Doria Russell
Apr 14 -- "Song Yet Sung" by James McBride
May 12 -- "In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed" by Carl Honore
Jun 09 -- "The World Without Us" by Alan Wesman
Jul 14 -- !Book Cafe! -- and -- "Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body" by Neil Shubin
Aug 11 -- !Book Cafe!

Please let us know if you have any questions; severett@kcls.org or 425-226-0522. You can pick up the books at the Reference Desk – just ask for the “Afternoon Book Group” book.

Fairwood Evening Book Group

"Lively Minds Book Group" meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:30pm.

2009-2010 Schedule:

September 15: The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science: A Memoir by Jill Price and Bart Davis
October 20:  Dreamers of the Day by Maria Doria Russell
November 17:  The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
December 15:  The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2010
January 19:  The Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
February 16:  The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukayama
March 16:  People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
April 20:  Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
May 18:  My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
June 15: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Please let us know if you have any questions, Rosalie Olds, 425-226-0522