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January 25 - All Creatures Great and Small

With the pandemic restrictions continuing and the weather too cold for outside meetings, we will have our next few months of bookgroup online. You can access the meeting with an Internet computer or by telephone on January 25th as early as 2:45pm. To join Zoom Meeting with your computer, click on this link: https://zoom.us/j/98577421899?pwd=OU1IKzd0c2RoRUo3ZkJQNHpBUkRmQT09

To join by telephone, dial: 1-312-626-6799

Meeting ID: 985 7742 1899

Passcode: 339445

PBS has just launched a new initiative called PBS Books and we will be focusing on their schedule through the next months. In January they will be launching the new series based on James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small so we will read (or reread in some cases!) and discuss it at our January 25th meeting. Books are available at the LME Library and there are some great resources from PBS Books listed below:

Interview with Ben Vanstone who adapted the Harriot books for the new PBS series
Q&A page about the new series
About the author, cast and books (Did you know James Harriot is the pseudonym for James Alfred Wight?)

In addition, here is a book guide from the publisher and also a link to our shorter discussion sheet.

Tentative, the schedule outlined below should take us into the spring. The rest of the bookgroup selections will be decided together after the weather improves and/or restrictions have been lifted.

2021 (Our 18^th year)

January 25	All Creatures Great & Small	James Harriot
February 22	Celebrate Black History Month and pick a book by an African American author
March 29	Pick a Hemingway book or readalike
April 26	Pick a poem by US Poet Laurate, Joy Harjo
May 24	Pick a book by Amy Tan or readalike
June 28	TBD
July 26	TBD
August 30	TBD
September 27	TBD
October 25	TBD
November 29	TBD
December 13^th @ 3pm —Coffee Chat about your favorite books of 2021 & get our new list for 2022

Great American Read - the results are in!

If you've been following the Great American Read on PBS, you know that Americans have been voting on their favorite books for months now. Last night, the top pick was announced and the winner is: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

To find out about more about the winners, visit https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/results/

The video of "The Grand Finale" is online as well.

Thank you to all who participated!

The Great American Read coming in May 2018

PBS will be hosting THE GREAT AMERICAN READ in May 2018. GAR will launch with a two-hour special event on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, at 8 p.m. on PBS stations nationally. Over the course of 15 weeks in the summer, viewers can read and vote on favorite works of fiction; the series then returns in the fall with additional episodes exploring the nominated books through themes including “Heroes,” “Villains & Monsters,” “Who Am I?,” “What We Do for Love,” “Other Worlds,” and will conclude with an exciting finale and countdown to “America’s Best-Loved Book.”

More information can be found at: http://www.pbs.org/book-view-now/blogs/news/2018/02/02/the-great-american-reads-from-pbs/

Watch for more information!