April Book Club

The library's book club The Pageturners will next meet on Monday, April 9, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. at the library and the book for discussion is March by Geraldine Brooks. Copies are available at the library and new members are always welcome.

Pageturners

The Melvin Public Library Book Club "The Pageturners" will hold their next meeting on Monday, March 12 at 7:00 p.m. at the library. The book for discussion is I'll Walk Alone by Mary Higgins Clark and copies are available at the library. New members are always welcome!

Women's Club Program

Thanks to the Pageturners Book Club and the Melvin Women's Club for the program held Monday night at Community Hall. Everyone enjoyed a good discussion and interesting information that was shared about the book and the author, Last Man Down by FDNY Firefighter Richard Picciotto.

Pageturners

The Pageturners' book club will be presenting the February program for the Melvin Women's Club on Monday, February 13 at 7:00 p.m. at the Community Hall on Main Street. The book they will discuss is Last Man Down: A Firefighter's Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center by Richard Picciotto. Phone the library at 388-2421 if you would like to read a copy of this book.

Change to Pageturner Selection

Calling all Pageturners! Due to a last minute unavailability of Sarah's Key, the book the group had planned to read and discuss at the November 14 meeting, the group will instead move on to the next book on their reading list, Room by Emma Donoghue. Copies have been ordered and will be available for check out at the library by the end of this week. If you had signed up for the last book you will automatically be signed up for this book instead.

The Pageturners

The Melvin Public Library book club meets on the second Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the library to review and discuss a book. In September the group discussed Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and for October 10 the book selection is Full of Grace by Dorothea Benton Frank.

If you would like to reserve a copy of the upcoming book or receive more information on attending a meeting call the library at 388-2421.

Pageturners Meet Tonight

The library book club The Pageturners will meet this evening, July 11, at 7:00 p.m. at the library and the book for discussion is Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons.

Pageturner Meeting

The Pageturners' Book Club will meet next Monday, May 9, at 7:00 p.m. at the library and the book for discussion is Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen.

Pageturners

The Pageturners book club had a fine old time at their last monthly meeting and a big crowd as well! Fifteen attended and thanks to JoAnn Althouse for sharing her birthday ice cream cake with the group! The club meets next on April 11 and will discuss The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

Pageturners Meet March 14

The Pageturners book club will next meet on Monday, March 14 at 7:00 p.m. at the library and the book for discussion is Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls, who also gave us The Glass Castle. This novel is billed as a fictionalized memoir of the author's grandmother, a woman with quite a story to tell.

Pageturners Meet at Women's Club

There was a great turnout and interesting discussion Monday, February 14, at the Melvin Women's Club meeting at Community Hall. Sixteen attended as the library's book club The Pageturners discussed The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Thanks to the Women's Club for hosting the group, making a donation to the library and providing delicious refreshments!

Book Club

The Pageturners book club will be holding the program for the Melvin Woman's Club on Monday, February 14 at the Community Hall on Main Street. The program begins at 7:00 p.m. and club members will discuss the book The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

Book Club to Meet

The Pageturners book club will meet next Monday, January 10, at 7:00 p.m. at the library. There is no book selection for the January meeting, instead the group will meet to talk about and select the books they would like to read in 2011.

There will also be a white elephant gift exchange so please bring a wrapped tchtochke, which according to Wikipedia is a gewgaw, knickknack, bauble or trinket; something you have around the house you would willingly part with. Light refreshments will be served.

Pageturner Christmas

The Pageturners Book Club will be having their annual Christmas get-together on Wednesday, December 1, at 5:30 p.m. at the Bayern Stube Restaurant in Gibson City. Feel free to bring a holiday memory or collection or favorite thing to share!

Pageturners Meet in Gibson City

The library's book club The Pageturners held their November meeting last evening at the Gibson Area Hospital Annex. The meeting was hosted by Esther Ficken, a resident of the Annex and a beloved founding member of the book club.

The group discussed the latest Richard Paul Evans book The Christmas List with most members giving it a vote of 8 or higher. There were a few members who did not love the book but in general it was rated a very pleasurable, if somewhat sad, read.

Special thanks to the Annex staff who were so kind to provide meeting space for the group as well as delightful refreshments, to Pat Donovan for the idea (if Esther can't come to the library for book club we'll take the book club to Esther!), to Cheryl Kurtenbach for tirelessly leading the group, to Esther for hosting, and to all the Pageturners for making it such a special evening!

Pageturner Road Trip

The Pageturners will meet Monday, November 8 at the Gibson City Hospital Annex to enjoy the company of one of the group's founding members, Esther Ficken. Please join us in the little conference room by 6:30 for the discussion, although the room will be available anytime after 6:00 if you wish to come early and visit. The book for discussion is The Christmas List by Richard Paul Evans and there will be light refreshments served.

Pageturners November Selection

The library's book club The Pageturners have chosen A Christmas List by Richard Paul Evans as the selection for the Monday, November 8 meeting. The library will have multiple copies available, call 388-2421 or stop by to pick up a copy and join the group for a rousing discussion in November!

Pageturner's Next Selection

The library book club The Pageturners meets the second Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the library and new members are always welcome. For the September 13 meeting the group is reading Shanghai Girls by Lisa See and copies are available at the library.

New Books in the Collection

New books recently added to the library's collection include the most recent title from Nora Roberts, The Search; Family Ties by Danielle Steel, Private by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, Betsy's Return by Wanda Brunstetter and The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs.

Other new books include Alaska Twilight by Colleen Coble, Whiplash by Catherine Coulter, Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich and The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow. The Girls, subtitled A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship, is also the selection for the August 9 Pageturners Book Club meeting.

Pageturners Meet

There was a great turnout for the The Pageturners' book club meeting May 10th at the library and the group had a rousing discussion of Loving Frank, Nancy Horan's historical novel about Frank Lloyd Wright

Club members say discussions are much more animated when all members don't agree on the book, that is, when all love it or hate it, there is not much to discuss. In the case of Loving Frank several members did love the book while several members did not!

The Pageturners meet the second Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the library and new members are always welcome. For June the group is reading the John Grisham novel Playing for Pizza and copies are available at the library.