Return to the PPL home page

Third Saturdays Book Discussion
Search the catalogView your recordContact Us

Research tools
Children's Services

Programs & Events
Locations & hours
About the library Site Index
New!

 

 

Join us to talk about books at the "Third Saturdays" Club-PPL's  series of Saturday afternoon book discussions.  The casual monthly gatherings feature a brief talk by a guest, or a member of the group, followed by an engaging conversation about the book. Meetings are held in the Main Library Room 316 at 2 pm.

COMING UP

 
book jacket

May 17:  The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

COMING UP
June 21:  Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
July 19:  Brother, I'm dying by Edwidge Danticat

JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST!  If you would like to receive email updates and reminders for the Third Saturdays Club, send your email address to reference@portland.lib.me.us and we will add you to our mailing list.

Previous Discussions:
April 19:  Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
March 15:  Cellophane by Marie Arana
February 16:  Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
January 19:  Flight by Sherman Alexie

2007
November 17:  Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
October 20:  What is the What by Dave Eggers
September 15: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
July 21: Case Histories-Kate Atkinson
June 16: Garner-Kirstin Allio
May 19: Purple Hibiscus-Chimananda Ngozi Adichie

April 21: American Theocracy-Kenneth Phillips
March:The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
February 17: Midnight's Children-Salman Rushdie
January 20: David Copperfield-Charles Dickens 

2006
November: Play it as it Lays-Joan Didion

October: Arthur and George-Julian Barnes
September: Mountains beyond Mountains-Tracy Kidder
July
The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
June:  Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
May:  Small Island by Andrea Levy
April:  Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
March
The March by E. L. Doctorow
February: The Sea by John Banville
January:  Runaway: Stories by Alice Munro

2005
December: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
November:  Wooden Nickel by William Carpenter
October:  Atonement by Ian McEwan
September: Known World by Edward P. Jones
June: Spartina by John Casey
May: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
April:  Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
March:  The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
February: John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
January: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.

2004
November:  The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
October: Brick Lane by Monica Ali
September:  Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
August:  Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

 

 

5 Monument Square, Portland Maine 04101    207 871-1700    email: reference@portland.lib.me.us