Adult Book clubs

Alices Book Club

Alices book club is a monthly bookclub organized by library patron Alice Nolan and meets every 2nd Monday of the month at 3pm here at FCL! New members are always welcome; if you are interested in joining, please send an email to Alice at alicemn@usa.com

July

The Librarianist By Patrick Dewitt

Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts. Hoping to fill the void he’s known since retiring, he begins volunteering at a senior center. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed.

august

Our Missing Hearts By Celeste Ng

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father. To keep the peace and restore prosperity in the wake of years of economic instability and violence, the authorities have forced libraries to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird’s mother, who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her

Previous Months Books: