Gibson's Book Club, 2012-2013

Our book club is open to all. We've chosen an eclectic, ambitious list of books for the coming year: join us for every meeting, or deal yourself in as the spirit moves you.

Most of these titles are in paperback, or should be by the time we'll read them, and they will all be discounted 25% from the publisher's price for the following year, whether you join us for meetings or not.

All meetings unless otherwise noted are on the first Monday of the month, and begin at 7:00, to give you time to have dinner and relax a bit first. Parking is free in the Capitol Commons garage and on the street, after 5 p.m..

Book List

The Art of Fielding (Paperback)

$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780316126670
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Back Bay Books, 5/2012

Gibson's Book Group reads The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach

Monday, May 6, 7 PM

One of last year's best novels, it's what you would get it John Irving wrote a baseball novel after he'd just reread Melville.  It's that good. You don't have to love baseball to love this book--it's full of great characters and it's a great story--but if you do love baseball, you'll be glad to learn there's not a single false note in this book. The guy knows his stuff.


$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780812993295
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House, 7/2012

Gibson's Book Club reads The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce

Monday, June 3, 7 PM

Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman he hasn't seen or heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye.

Harold pens a quick reply and, leaving Maureen to her chores, heads to the corner mailbox. But then, as happens in the very best works of fiction, Harold has a chance encounter, one that convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. And thus begins the unlikely pilgrimage at the heart of Rachel Joyce's remarkable debut...

Just out now in hardcover--we hope for paperback by the time we meet.


$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780812979350
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 5/2011

Gibson's Book Club reads Citizens of London, by Lynne Olson

Monday, July 8, 7 PM

Governor Winant is still a beloved figure in this part of the world--and in Great Britain. His story, and the stories of others who went to help Britain as the world veered into the dark beginnings of World War II,  is told in this wonderful work of history by Lynne Olson.

One of our most popular books of the past few years. If you've read it, please join us!


How to Read and Why (Paperback)

$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780684859071
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Scribner, 10/2001

(No, we're not reading Bloom. But the website insists on an ISBN to link to!)

It's time to pick books for our group to read for the next year. Come prepared to defend your own choices and to hear new suggestions.  

That's on Monday, August 5, at 7 PM.


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NH author Thomas Mickey, Ph.D. presents America's Romance with the English Garden, detailing America's seduction via marketing with seed catalogs, which were newly cheap to manufacture.

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Cathie Pelletier / The return of Sy / Signed first editions. May 15th, 2013

In The One-Way Bridge, Cathie Pelletier draws readers back to the beloved town of Mattagash, a seemingly quiet New England outpost at the end of the road in Northern Maine. Yet Mattagash is anything but tranquil. While its citizens bicker publicly over small-town theft or their neighbors’ offensive mailboxes, they privately struggle through deeper life issues: scandal, loss, failed ambitions, and the scars of war. 
Cathie Pelletier was born and raised on the banks of the St. John River, at the end of the road in Northern Maine.  She is the author of 9 other novels, including The Funeral Makers (NYTBR Notable Book), The Weight of Winter (winner of the New England Book Award) and Running the Bulls (winner of the Paterson Prize for Fiction). 
We've never had a novel by Cathie be so quick out of the starting gate. It really seems to have struck a chord locally and the buzz on it is very strong. Come check it out. Cathie will join us on Friday, May 17, at 7 PM. 
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It's always a joy when Sy Montgomery comes to town. Sy, the author of The Good Good Pig and Spell of the Tiger, is one of the nation's best nature writers and she hails from tiny Hancock, NH, right down the road.  This time Sy has written a children's book about the adventures of Snowball, the Dancing Cockatoo. The minds and souls of animals are never so vivid to us as when they are being described and celebrated by this gifted writer. Join us Saturday...

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