First Thursday Book Group of Greene Co. Library

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This adult group meets on the first Thursday of every month at 7 pm in the meeting room of the Greene County Library. We pick the books we'll read every six months or so, by voting on member's suggestions. We read a combination of fiction and non-fiction. Everyone is welcome to attend. Please call 434-985-5227 for more information.

Current Slate

• Nov. 5, 2009 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

• Dec. 3, 2009 Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran

• Jan. 7, 2010 (2nd Thurs.due to the New Year's holiday) Middlemarch by George Eliot

• Feb. 4, 2010 Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani

• Mar. 4, 2010 A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

• Apr. 1, 2010 Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

Past Titles Read

• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Nov. 6)

• A Judgment In Stone by Ruth Rendell (Dec. 4)

• The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak (Jan 8, due to holiday)

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (March 5, 2009)

• Washington Square by Henry James (April 2, 2009)

• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (May 7, 2009)

• The Places In Between by Rory Stewart (June 4, 2009)

• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (July 2, 2009)