You are invited to join another Online Classics Book Discussion for adults! Join us Thursday, April 23rd, 7 - 8:15 p.m. to discuss Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Overcoat.” We hope this discussion will be a fun way to connect with the community while many of us are stuck at home. Be sure to register!… Read More
Online Book Discussion: “In Our Time” by Ernest Hemingway
Happening Thursday, March 26, 7-8 p.m. You are invited to join our first Online Book Discussion for adults! We’ll be trying this experiment with our previously scheduled Classics Book Discussion of the short story collection In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway this coming Thursday, March 26,… Read More
Classics Book Discussion: Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley
Many of us have memories of summer road trips--even if we haven’t been on one! The romance of the open road is deeply embedded in our culture. The road trip itself is, in many ways, an American institution. In 1960, the novelist John Steinbeck, by then himself an American institution, got in his camper with… Read More
Celebrate American poetry at our Classics Book Discussion
Classics Book Discussion: American Poetry | Thursday, April 26, 7-8 p.m. When was the last time you read a really great poem? We have plenty of poetry fans in Deerfield, but I also talk to library patrons who feel like they never “got” poetry. Poetry, particularly classic poetry, can bring to mind boring lessons on archaic… Read More
New Program: Classic Book Discussions at the Deerfield Public Library
Deerfield loves reading classics. Works by Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy are always popular checkouts at the library, and maybe always will be. Occasionally, a title like Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here will become newly relevant and shoot up our charts. In the past year, Deerfield patrons have also consistently checked out books by Flannery… Read More
