The Marathon Book Club meets on the first Friday of each month at the Marathon Library. Bring your tea or coffee and join us for a great 2 hour discussion! Our next meeting is June 1st at 10:00 A.M.
For June, we’re reading and discussing The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly.
 
 
Upcoming book selections:
The Great House by Nicole Krauss (for July)
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (for August)
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake (for September)
Years of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks (for October)
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (for November)
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (for December)
The Moveable …

Come discuss great books with us every 3rd Tuesday of the Month at 7:00 p.m. in the Key Largo library’s community room.   
www.KeyLargoBookClub.com

Book Bites returns on November 10th at 4:30.  The book club is open to anyone, whether they’ve read the book or not.   In November we will be discussing The Whiskey Reblesby David Liss.  (Check out Nan’s review under Staff Picks.)

On Nov. 10, the Book Bites Book Club at the Key West Library will return for the season to discuss The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss.  Here’s a review I wrote around the time the novel was published:
Historical hindsight tends to carry the air of the inevitable. Because we’ve all known so long about the American Revolution and worshiped the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, we assume it was meant to be, that fate decreed our nation would turn out the way it has.
Historical fiction is a useful reminder that …

Book Bites reading group will have a special meeting Saturday March 12 at 2:00 for a discussion of Alison Lurie’s novel The Last Resort.  All are welcome to attend this informal discussion.

Join us Thursday morning for W.C. Highfield, author of Streets and In Sun Down Far.  Social time at 9:30 with coffee and breakfast treats, book talk starts at 10:00.

The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
I recently read my first book by Bohjalian for a book club. We read The Great Gatsby then The Double Bind. First of all it was nice to reread Gatsby. I knew some of the characters play prominent rolls in DB so I wanted to refresh my memory on this book I have only read for school assignments. It was interesting to reread this book and refer back to it while reading DB. Since I was leading the book club I ignored “spoiler” alerts and …

Join this dynamic group of adult literacy students as we explore new books together. Stay tuned to learn what the book topic is for this week. We’ll meet for 2 hours in the auditorium.

Join the Book Bites Book Club in the auditorium as we discuss two great authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Chris Bohjalian.