Books & Brews: Social Hour
Held the second Tuesday of every month @ 12pm (unless schedule notes otherwise). This is an age-friendly, 1 hour gathering to share our love for books, plus enjoy tea, coffee, light snacks, & good company!
Next sessions: July 14, NO August, Sept. 15, Oct. 13, Nov 10, Dec.8
Location: Washburn Memorial Library's Barbara Porter Room (downstairs).
To sign up: Please contact Cara, Library Director. Call 455-4814 or email washburnmainelibrary@gmail.com
Fee: NO fee to attend.
If you love to read and/or enjoy learning, please join us for this relaxed social hour! If you feel inspired, please bring along a book you'd like to share with the group!
Virtual Book Club
July's Book: Whistler, by Ann Patchett
The acclaimed, prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling writer returns with a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time.
When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again.
Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them. It’s a story about bravery, memory, the often small yet consequential moments that define our lives, and the endless stream of loss that in time comes for us all. Beautiful in its simplicity, it is ultimately about how love endures, and how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.
(Summary credit: Amazon.com )
Email: washburnmainelibrary@gmail.com
Phone # 207-455-2016
Meeting: Last Wednesday of each month @ 1pm (unless otherwise noted).
Location: Virtual/Zoom. Link will be emailed once you sign up.
Fee: Free minus the cost of purchasing your book(s).
Book Choices: Trending books and the process of facilitator & group suggestions.
To sign up for Teatime Book Club: Please contact Cara, Library Director