Events
The Bookworm has the honor of providing the book store at Berkshire Hathaway annual meetings. Many Berkshire authors will be in attendance at The Bookworm on Sunday afternoon as their schedules permit.
Join us to chat about favorite reads, books that changed our lives, or the book we just couldn’t put down. No need to make reservations--just come and enjoy a little conversation about books. Carol Lynch will facilitate the discussion.
The Sherlock Holmes Book Club will discuss Five Orange Pips, a short story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Penguin, $14). All Sherlockians, old or new to the canon, are welcomed. And if you don't know the difference between the canon and a pastiche, don't worry, just an enjoyment of "the game" is all that's needed.
Eleven-year-old Melody is the smartest kid in her whole school--but no one knows it. Most people--her teachers and doctors included--don't think she's capable of learning. If only she could tell people what she thinks and knows . . . but she can't, because Melody can't talk. She can't walk. She can't write. Being stuck inside her head is making Melody go out of her mind, until she discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time ever. At last Melody has a voice . . . but not everyone around her is ready to hear it.
Aardbaark will read Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Harcourt, $17.00). When a meteor hits the moon, Miranda must learn to survive the unimaginable. Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda's struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar ...
The overriding theme of Sin Eater, Reichard’s fourth collection of poetry, is one of creating balance in our lives between public brightness and private shadow. Cihlar’s poetry collection, Undoing, displays an emotional richness and range authenticated by details of domestic disarray.(Sin Eater, Mid-List Press, $13.00; Undoing, Little Pear Press, $15.00)
The As the Worm Turns Book Discussion Group will discuss Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (Penguin, $15.00). When the recently orphaned socialite Flora Poste descends on her relatives at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm in deepest Sussex, she finds a singularly miserable group and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Jackie Byers will facilitate the discussion. Space is limited, so please call to reserve your place.
All her life, Meg Lindsay's mother told her what a disappointment she was. In Meg's opinion, no one could be a worse mother than the woman who gave birth to her, until Meg has a child of her own to care for. After Meg and her husband, Lewis, adopt a girl from an orphanage in China, Meg's love for her new daughter grows daily, but the tension, fear, and uncertainty of motherhood drive Meg to the brink of despair. Fearing that she is becoming the kind of mother she hates, she fights circumstance, rebellion, a loving but at times tense marriage, setbacks, and the native selfishness that lives in all of us.
The World War II History Book Discussion Group will discuss The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II by Gregory Freeman (NAL Caliber, $15.00). In 1944, the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen who had been trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of this unforgettable story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery is now being told for the first time.
