The Pollard Library Non-Fiction book club meets at 6:30pm on the first Thursday of the month. On Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 6:30PM the Pollard Library Non-Fiction Book Club will discuss The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt. WINNER of the 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize…Read More
After a brief and amicable discussion of Ernest Hemingway's heady nostalgic reminisce of his time in Paris the Pollard Non-Fiction Book Club sets its sights on the next monograph. We'll be discussing The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss. You can request a copy online through…Read More
After a summer of big books—Common Ground ( 688 pages)  & Truman (1,120 pages)—the Pollard's Non-Fiction book group will ease into fall with, Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception by Charles Seife, a book that weighs in at a modest under 295 pages. These numbers of course include the front and end matter of…Read More
It's time to get started reading the next non-fiction book club selection: Truman by David McCullough. Don't let the short title fool you, this is a massive tome. Â This time we're giving you two months (the library is closed for Independence Day the first Thursday of July, so we won't be meeting until the first…Read More
This is an epic tome. A massive treatment for a tempestuous time written with such rigor and insight that it is difficult to sum up. As the late Robert B. Parker wrote in his 1985 review of this book:Â Â "To say that "Common Ground" Â is about busing in Boston is a bit like saying that Moby…Read More
Hey! All you Mill City Growers* out there! Excited for Spring? While you're getting your gardens ready, read up and then head on down to the library, Thursday, April 4th at 6:30pm to discuss Michael Pollan's classic horticultural non-fiction gem "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World." If you haven't' read this…Read More
Apologies for this entry being so late in the month. I would like to give a hearty and humble thank you to those souls who came to February's "Fiery Trial"Â Non-Fiction book club meeting. We certainly had a fiery discussion and I appreciate all the insights folks shared. Â And I think we all appreciated the maple…Read More
In honor of Lincoln's Birthday, and in recognition of the recent Steven Spielberg film Lincoln starring Daniel Day Lewis, the Non-Fiction book club will discuss on Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 6:30PM the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winning history book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner. From the bookjacket: "In this landmark work…Read More
We thought you could use some island thinking this January so the Pollard is having two special programs with a Hawaiian theme. First, January 7th @ 6:30pm the will be discussing Sarah Vowell's book Unfamiliar Fishes. With her trademark wry humor, Ms. Vowell tells the story of the Americanization of Hawaii from when we first…Read More
The Pollard Library Non-Fiction book club meets at 6:30pm on the first Thursday of the month. On December 8, 2012 at 6:30PM the Pollard Library Non-Fiction Book Club will discuss In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin. Here's a description of the book from the Penguin Classics Edition: "An exhilarating look at a place that still retains…Read More
[gallery link="file" columns="2"] The Pollard Library Non-Fiction book club meets at 6:30pm on the first Thursday of the month. On November 1, 2012 at 6:30PM the Pollard Library Non-Fiction Book Club will discuss Lifespan of a Fact by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal. Here's a description from the publisher’s website: "An innovative essayist and his…Read More
Long time readers of this blog know the deal. Our Non-Fiction book club meets the first Thursday of every month and we have a really good time discussing everything under the non-fiction sun—from memoirs to journalim and what is the subject of this month's selection: historical narratives. Lost in Shangri-La tells the improbable but true…Read More
We've got a stunning read about a stunning lady for this month's book club discussion. So get yourself a copy of Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes. Description from book jacket: "From a Pulitzer prize winning author, the fascinating and completely…Read More
A long time member of the our Non-fiction book club suggested and lobbied for what looks to be a fascinating read that will surely engender an interesting discussion. We have before us Lauren Slater's Opening Skinners Box: Â Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century. Part memoir, part investigative history, the book traces the evolution of…Read More
It's time to set our sights on another nonfiction gem. It seems very appropriate to have a uniquely American story be the subject of the book picked for discussion the Thursday after Independence Day. So read up, and join the discussion of Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns on July 5th @ 6:30pm.Description from…Read More
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