Three More Days...

And counting. Have you chosen your book or books yet? If this Saturday doesn't work for you, have you picked an alternate night? Do you have any suggestions for great reads? Let us know here or on our Facebook page.

Here are some thoughts from Board member Stanlyn Daugherty.

Galore by Michael Crummy was one of my favorite books last year. Who can resist a book that begins with a mute albino being pulled from the belly of a dead whale on the beach of a remote New foundland village? Think One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Shipping News.

The book I've enjoyed most in the last year was The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal. Mr. de Waal is a noted British ceramicist who inherited a collection of Japanese netsuke, small ivory carvings. In this book he tells the story of how these objects came to his prominent and colorful family, their journey across Europe, barely surviving destruction during WWII, then back to Japan prior to his inheritance

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