Before we talk about the next book we'll be discussing in the new year, I'd like to take a moment to mark the groups' fifth anniversary. Our first meeting was an exploratory one in December of 2010. After discussing how we were going ot pick the books and what types of books we wanted to read…Read More
Our nonfiction book club is set to discuss an interesting book that tells the lesser known story of one of history's supporting characters, who so happens to be a woman. The Book of Ages tells the story of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, as much as anything can be known about the person with whom Franklin corresponded…Read More
The following article by Trustee Nancy Pitkin is crossposted from Dick Howe, Jr.'s blog. The PML NonFiction Book group is free and open to join. We will be discussing Paddy Camps by Brian Mitchell on Thursday, July 2nd. There are copies available for check out behind the first floor check out desk. Nancy Pitkin sent…Read More
2015 is off to an auspicious start with two great award winners. Last week, our little book club embarked on it's fourth year of reading and talking, by discussing Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo. And we've got an other National Book Award winning title up to talk about in February: The Worst…Read More
We're starting the year off right with a brilliant award winning book by Katherine Boo. While the subject matter is difficult at times to take in, this book won the 2012 National Book Award and it's author, an investigative journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker, has won a Pulitzer and the MacArthur "genius"…Read More
Up next for you Non-Fiction book lovers is a little book that proclaims itself to be an instant classic. Sting is very impressed with the agricultural theories of this Columbia Professor. He says so on in his blurb on the hardcover edition: "The Vertical Farm is a world-changing innovation whose time has come. This visionary…Read More
The Pollard Library Non-Fiction book club, having survived an intense conversation over it's last chosen title The Dark Side by Jane Mayer, has set its sights on it's next nonficiton mongraphical wonder: The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond. We will be discussing this book on November 6th…Read More
Copies of Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre are available to borrow from the first floor circulation desk of the library. Our Non Fiction book group will be discussing it on September 4 at 6:30PM. Or maybe we're just trying to make you think we are.... you know... some…Read More
Our Non-Fiction book club met again last night to discuss the polarizing work of experimental non-fiction (poetic realism?) that is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans. I want to thank all in attendance for their contribution to yet another interesting conversation. The book we will be discussing next month…Read More
Originally published 75 years ago, this non fiction boundary pusher still ranks as one of the most innovative American journalistic endeavor. In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment from Fortune magazine to document the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. They lived with three different families and…Read More
Thank you to all those hearty souls who braved winter's grip to come out and discuss Nabokov's Speak, Memory last night. I truly thank you for your input, insight, and thoughtful discussion over such a gloriously difficult book. It's time once again to set our sights on our next truth-seeking gem. On April 3, 2014…Read More
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats…Read More
In light of the storm we are cancelling tonight's Non Fiction Book club meeting. Tonight's discussion of The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan will be postponed until next month's meeting (February 6th). This will bump Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov back to March 6th and New York Burning by Jill Lepore back to April 3rd…Read More
Dr. Teo Pique, friend of the Pollard Library and regular member of our Non-Fiction book club wrote a gripping essay on her experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo where she spent five months of 2013 as a humanitarian worker with Doctors Without Borders. The essay was published this past Monday, on Richard Howe, Jr.'s…Read More
It's amazing and humbling to see that our Non-Fiction book club has meet now for three solid years. Now, I love talking books, but there is something even more enriching in the conversation that a group of people get together to talk about a book they all recently read. You do not have to synopsis a…Read More
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