 If you're looking for a fun and fulfilling activity, you should consider joining the Reader's Ink Book Club. Hosted by the Ottumwa Public Library, the book club meets on the second Wednesday of each month from 5 to 6pm. Each month, Reader's Ink reads a different book selected by one of its members. When someone new signs up they select a month. When their month comes up, that person brings a light treat for the group to snack on while they discuss that person's chosen book. The library will loan each member a copy of the book they need for the next meeting. If you're interested in joining please contact Maryann Lemon at the library.
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Memory Keepers Daughter -- July 2007 Book Pic |
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A Dog Year -- June 2007 Book Pick |
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Reader's Ink book club has chosen Jon Katz's work A Dog Year,
as their June 2007 book pick.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 11 July 2007 )
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The Road -- May 2007 Book Pick |
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 In a return to fiction, the Reader's Ink
Book Club has chosen Cormac McCarthy's novel, The Road, as their
pick-of-the-month for May 2007. The Road's plot is an interesting genre of fiction known as a robinsonade, which is defined as
works describing an individual's or a small group's survival without the aid of
civilization, as on a deserted island.
Cormac McCarthy won the National Book Award for his novel
All The Pretty Horses, which is the first book in McCarthy's
Border Trilogy. All The Pretty Horses was also made into a movie directed by Billy Bob Thorton. Another novel by McCarthy, No Country for Old Men is also being released as a
movie. No Country for Old Men is being directed by the Coen Brothers. Currently in production, it is set to be released some time in august.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 11 May 2007 )
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Team of Rivals -- April 2007 Book Pick |
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 The Reader's Ink book of the month for April 2007 is Team of Rivals
by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Goodwin has a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. She served as a White House Fellow during the Johnson administration and later assisted in the writing of his memoirs. In 1995, Goodwin won the Pulitzer prize for her book on Franklin Roosevelt entitled, No Ordinary Time.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 13 March 2007 )
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Among Schoolchildren -- Reader's Ink March 2007 Book |
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 Among Schoolchildren, by Tracy Kidder is the March 2007 pick for the Reader's Ink book club. Kidder has written several works of non-fiction. In 1981, he won
the Pulitzer prize for his work, The Soul of a New Machine, about a computer design
team's creation of a new computer.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 09 February 2007 )
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The Time Traveler's Wife -- February 2007 Reader's Ink Book Pick |
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 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger is the Reader's Ink book club's February 2007 pick of the month. Niffenegger is a professor at Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book and Paper Arts. A film version of this story is due to be released sometime in 2008. (source -- Wikipedia ) This is Niffenegger's debut novel.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 25 January 2007 )
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