Book Club and A Movie
Saturday, July 23
9:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Donation: $2
This month’s selection is The Book Shop by Penelope Fitzgerald. In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one. (goodreads.com) We have a limited supply of books at the front desk to borrow.
Rated PG for Thematic elements, language, and brief smoking (IMDB) A light snack is served. Registration required.
