Join the Classic Literature Book Club readers at 10:15 AM in the 2nd floor Ponderosa room on the 3rd Saturday of the month.
CLBC titles are available to borrow from Hoopla with no waiting in eBook or audiobook format.
March 23 – My Antonia by Willa Cather - In the late nineteenth century, Antonia, a fourteen-year-old immigrant girl from Bohemia, and Jim Burden, a ten-year-old orphan boy, arrive in Black Hawk, Nebraska, and in teaching each other form a friendship that will last a lifetime.
April 20 – Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift - Published anonymously in 1726, this book is a parody of the then popular travel narrative and satirizes English customs and the politics of the day. Readers first considered it a serious book. A keystone of English literature.
May 18 –As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner - This is the darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members--including Addie herself, by the winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.