Forest Park Library Book Club

Where cool people read great books.

A friendly group, reading both fiction and non-fiction. We meet the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm in the Library's Conference Room.

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Members

  • Walt Latocha
  • Craig
  • Kathleen O'malley
  • Michelle Alioto
  • Kate
  • Robin Bates
  • Kathleen Letsos
  • Barbara Wilkins
  • Hadley Ford
  • Brendan Riley
  • Nita
  • Jenny
  • Andrea
  • Ben Haines

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The State of Jones

Started by Ben Haines Oct 22, 2009.

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The Plague of Doves

Started by Ben Haines Oct 8, 2009.

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The Omnivore's Dilemma 1 Reply

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Kathleen Letsos is now a member of Forest Park Library Book Club Apr 14, 2010
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June Book Club--Summer Reading Special! Heat : an amateur's adventures as kitchen slave, line cook, pasta-maker, and apprentice to a Dante-quoting butcher in Tuscany, by Bill Buford at Forest Park Public Library

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June 8, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
Buford's exuberant, witty food memoir documents his days as chef-in-training in the kitchen of Mario Batali's acclaimed restaurant Babbo. In this fast-paced, candid narrative, Buford describes the frenetic experience of working in Babbo’s kitchen: the trials and errors (and more errors), humiliations and hopes, disappointments and triumphs as he worked his way up the ladder from slave to cook. He talks about his relationships with his kitchen colleagues and with the larger-than-life,…See More
Michelle Alioto might attend Ben Haines's event Apr 6, 2010
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Michelle Alioto commented on Ben Haines's event 'May Book Club -- Buyology: Truth and Lies about Why We Buy, by Martin Lindstrom'
see you soon , no pressing meetings so I can finally make a discussion!
Apr 6, 2010
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May Book Club -- Buyology: Truth and Lies about Why We Buy, by Martin Lindstrom at Forest Park Public Library

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May 11, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? An eye-grabbing advertisement, a catchy slogan, an infectious jingle? Or do our buying decisions take place below the surface, so deep within our subconscious minds, we’re barely aware of them?In BUYOLOGY, Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking, three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study, a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of…See More
Michelle Alioto is attending Ben Haines's event Apr 6, 2010
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Events posted by Ben Haines Apr 2, 2010
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April Book Discussion: Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx at Forest Park Library, Conference Room

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April 13, 2010 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Amazon writes: "Proulx found fertile, if rocky, soil for her first two novels (Postcards and The Shipping News) in the far northeastern corner of North America. In Accordion Crimes she ranges much further afield. The novel follows an accordion from the hands of its maker in Sicily in 1890 until it is flattened by a truck in Florida in 1996. In the intervening century it passes through the hands of a host of unlucky owners and their kin: Abelardo Relampago, who dies from the bite of a poisonous…See More
Event posted by Ben Haines Mar 16, 2010
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March Meeting: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks at Forest Park Library, Conference Room

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March 8, 2010 from 7:30pm to 9pm
March's selection is Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks."Sacks is an unparalleled chronicler of modern medicine, and fans of his work will find much to enjoy when he turns his prodigious talent for observation to music and its relationship to the brain. The subtitle aptly frames the book as a series of medical case studies-some in-depth, some abruptly short. The tales themselves range from the relatively mundane (a song that gets stuck on a continuing loop in one's mind)…See More
Event posted by Ben Haines Feb 8, 2010
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Jenny commented on Ben Haines's event 'February meeting: Dangerous Laughter: 13 Stories, by Steven Millhauser'
Hi Ben, Bad news..I won't be able to make it tonight because my whole family got hit by the stomach flu this weekend and we are all housebound through today. I was really enjoying the book too and would have loved to discuss it. Sorry Jenny
Feb 8, 2010
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Ben Haines commented on Ben Haines's event 'January Meeting: The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup'
Thanks for the heads up, Jenny and Michelle. Hope to see you in February!
Jan 5, 2010
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February meeting: Dangerous Laughter: 13 Stories, by Steven Millhauser at Forest Park Library, Conference Room

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February 8, 2010 from 7:30pm to 9pm
In his first collection in five years, a master fabulist in the tradition of Poe and Nabokov invents spookily plausible parallel universes in which the deepest human emotions and yearnings are transformed into their monstrous opposites. Millhauser is especially attuned to the purgatory of adolescence. In the title story, teenagers attend sinister “laugh parties”; in another, a mysteriously afflicted girl hides in the darkness of her attic bedroom. Time and again these parables revive the…See More
Jenny is attending Ben Haines's event Jan 5, 2010
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Jenny commented on Ben Haines's event 'January Meeting: The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup'
Hi Ben, I will not be able to attend this month as I was just not able to get to the book with the craziness of the holidays. I totally am planning on attending in Feb. Sorry - Jenny
Jan 5, 2010
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Robin Bates is now a member of Forest Park Library Book Club Jan 4, 2010
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Michelle Alioto commented on Ben Haines's event 'January Meeting: The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup'
Ben - I am so sorry, just found out about a church meeting I must attend...as a leader I have to set the example, at least this is what they tell me. See you in February. ~Michelle
Dec 29, 2009
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January Meeting: The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup at Forest Park Library, Conference Room

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January 11, 2010 from 7:30pm to 9pm
Orlean writes: "This is a collection of my favorite profile pieces, most of which were first published in the New Yorker, with a few from Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside. The subjects range from the well-known (Bill Blass) to the unknown (a ten-year-old kid) to the formerly known (the 1960s girl group The Shaggs). Also included are a dozen Talk of the Town pieces. One of the pieces in the book, "The Maui Surfer Girls", was the basis of the movie Blue Crush."
Michelle Alioto is attending Ben Haines's event Dec 15, 2009
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Events posted by Ben Haines Dec 15, 2009
 
 
 

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