Grafton Library Book Discussion Group

Meets the second Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to join the group. Come for good conversation and light refreshments!

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*There will be no Grafton Library Book Discussion meeting in December

 

Thursday, January 10, at 6:30 p.m.
My Two Elaines by Martin J. Schreiber
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Former Wisconsin Gov. Martin J. Schreiber has seen his beloved wife Elaine gradually transform from the woman who gracefully entertained in the state’s Executive Residence to one who could no longer drive a car, follow a recipe, use the bathroom or dress herself.  In My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer’s Caregiver, Schreiber candidly counsels those who take on similar caregiving roles.

  Thursday, February 14, at 6:30 p.m.    Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan          Click here to request this book

Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season.

 

Thursday, March 14, at 6:30 p.m.
On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism   by Marines called on to do the impossible during   the greatest battle of the Korean War

 

Thursday, April 11, at 6:30 p.m.
Marcel’s letters by Carolyn Porter
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Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across a bundle of letters and was immediately drawn to their beautifully expressive pen-and-ink handwriting. She could not read the letters—they were in French—but she noticed all of them had been signed by a man named Marcel and mailed from Berlin to his family in France during the middle of World War II.