Book Discussion Groups:
MPL's Second Tuesday Book Groups
Missoula Public Library's Book Groups meet on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 pm in the Small Meeting Room. Copies of the books are available at the Accounts Desk one month prior to the discussion.
August: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Winner of the 2009 Montana Book
Award, Hotel on the Corner of
Bitter and Sweet follows Chinese-American Henry Lee in mid-1980s
Seattle. After learning that the
belongings of Japanese Americans
interned during WWII have been
discovered in the basement of a
hotel, he retraces the experiences
of his youth and his first love,
Keiko Okabe, who was interned
with her family during the war.
Join in a lively discussion of Hotel
on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford on Tuesday, August
10 at 7pm in the Small Meeting
Room. Books are available at the
Accounts Desk.
Check out the Second Tuesday Book Group Archives for books we've already discussed.
Third Thursday Book Club
Begun in 1991, this program is sponsored by the Friends of the Missoula Public Library. They purchase multiple copies of the selected titles and provide them for Book Club members at cost. Books are available to purchase at the Accounts Desk, except where noted. The discussion begins at 7 pm in the Board Room every month.
Call the Library at 721-BOOK (2665) or Clara Erickson at 251-5921 if you're interested in this active and exciting book discussion group.
Books for September 2009 - June 2010
September 17th - Persuasion by Jane Austen
October 15th
-Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
November 19th - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
December 17th - O! Pioneer by Willa Cather
January 21st - The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie
February 18th - Reluctant Mr. Darwin by David Quammen
March 18th - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
April 15th - Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
May 20th - Night Watch by Sarah Waters
June 17th - Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Books for July 2010 – December 2010
July 15 – Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
August 19 – A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
September 16 – Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (*unavailable for purchase)
October 21 – The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (*unavailable for purchase)
November 18 – David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
December 16 – Winter in the Blood by James Welch
Books for January 2011 – June 2011
January 20 – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
February 17 – The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
March 17 – The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage (*unavailable for purchase)
April 21 - Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
May 19 - A Perfect Spy by John LeCarre
June 16 - The Shadow Catcher by Mary Ann Wiggings (*unavailable for purchase).