Third Monday @1--Crown Point Book Discussion Group

Discussions are held in the Crown Point Library on the third Monday from 1:00-2:30 pm.  The group does not meet in July, August, or December.

Books assigned are available on special loan at the Circulation Desk.  Additional copies can be borrowed from the regular library collection or through interlibrary loan.

An electronic newsletter is available here for reading or by subscribing. 

A list of all the books the groups have read is available here.

New members are always welcome! For more information, contact the discussion leader: Barb Houk, Special Services Librarian, at 219-663-0270 or email bhouk@crownpointlibrary.org.

SPRING, 2013

***4th Monday--Library closed 3rd Monday

***Monday, January 28 at 1:00 pm

  Girl in Translation, by Jean Kwok

Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly Chang begins a secret double life as an exceptional schoolgirl during the day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by her first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty.

***Monday, February 25 at 1:00 pm

  Still Alice, by Lisa Genova

Feeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life as her concept of self gradually slips away.

Monday, March 18 at 1:00 pm

  In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson

The best-selling author of Devil in the White City documents the efforts of first American ambassador to Hitler's Germany William E. Dodd to acclimate to a residence in an increasingly violent city where he is forced to associate with the Nazis while his daughter pursues a relationship with Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels.

 Monday, April 15 at 1:00 pm

  Maine, by Courtney Sullivan

Descending on a family beach house won in a bet years earlier, three generations of women gradually impart difficult respective secrets including a pregnancy, a terrible crush, and a deeply-held resentment for past misdeeds.

Monday, May 20 at 1:00 pm

 Room, by Emma Donoghue

A five-year-old narrates a story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who has held her prisoner for seven years since she was a teenager.

Monday, June 17 at 1:00 pm

  The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain

Follows the life of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, as she navigates 1920s Paris.