Getting ready for the New Year

I am looking to the New Year here at the Tipp City Public Library. Our staff of two adult service librarians, Carolyn Rector and Sue Hofer are trying their best to bring new programs to the Tipp City Library. Sue Hofer offers a Mystery Book Discussion on the second Monday evening of the month at 7 pm. For January their first meeting will be on January 9th. The book under discussion will be A Grave Denied by Dana Stabenow. This novel is from the series on Kate Shugak, an Aleut who live  on a National Park in Alaska. Beginning with the novel, A Cold Day for Murder, the series now has eighteen novels in the series, with number nineteen, Restless in the Grave coming out in February 2012. If you are interested in joining the discussion pick up the book at the front desk of the library. Carolyn Rector will lead the discussion of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, in the Classic Book Discussion group that meets on the second Thursday, January 12th of the month at 1 pm. Moving away from the Big Read novels of the National Endowment of the Arts, discussion will be about Pip and Estelle and Miss Havisham. Largely autobiographical, this is one of Charles Dickens most famous novels. Discussion questions can be found on Lit Lovers: a Well-Read Online Community.  Most of us have read this novel in school, or at least an abridged version, but what will this coming-of-age- story hold for the more mature reader. Continuing with our book discussion groups, Carolyn also hosts the Book Lovers Discussion on the fourth Monday night, January 23rd at 7 pm. This month we are reading The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan. Jon Foro wrote for Amazon.com, "It's another incredible--and incredibly compelling--feat of historical journalism." This book tells about the 1910 fire that consumed acres of National Park land in three different states and made a compelling case in Congress to support the small ineffective Forest Service. Copies of this book should be arriving in the library this week for patrons to pick up for the discussion group. Copies of the discussion questions can be found on Lit Lovers.com. My review of  The Big Burn can be found in the archives of this web site. It was a very interesting account of a time in American history that I knew little about, even though I had been a fan of Teddy Roosevelt when I was younger. Join one of our discussions at the Tipp City Library this coming New Year and I hope you find the experience worthwhile.