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Great Books discussion group meetings, sponsored by Eastern Monroe Public Library, will continue the open discussions of novels, plays, essays, etc.   Meetings are held at the library or at area restaurants on the first and third Thursdays of each month, 7-9 p.m., October through June.  New members are always welcome.  For more information, contact Mike Wetmore at 570-421-3819,  Donna Haddon at 570-421-1548, or Eugenia Eden at jenie@ptd.net

Library meetings begin at 7:00 p.m. at the Eastern Monroe Public Library on North Ninth Street, Stroudsburg.  Dinner meetings start at 5:15 p.m., followed by discussion at 7:00 p.m. at the selected restaurant.  Restaurant locations will be announced.  If you cannot join the group for dinner, come for dessert and coffee at 6:30 p.m.

2009 Great Books Readings

Dates and Locations are Subject to Change

February 5           Library                         *Which New Era Would That Be? by Nadine Gordimer

February 19            TBA                             **Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie

March 5            Library                         **End of Nature by Bill McKibben Random House Trade Paperbacks

March 19            TBA                             **Eichman in Jerusalem by Hanna Arendt   Lead by:  Laurel Bishow

April 2                Library                         **Shakespeare Sonnets Dover Books ISBN 0-486-26686-9.  Lead by: Curt Body

April 16            TBA                             **Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare     Lead by:  Mike Wetmore

May 7              Library                         **A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway

May 21            TBA                        *What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by  Raymond Carver

June 4              TBA                           **First Love by Ivan Turgenov

June 18            TBA                             **Civil Disobedience by Henry Thoreau (available in Dover Thrift)

July 16             Bamboo House             6:00 7-00 PM Planning Session for 2009-2010

(1) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/robinson.html  Richard Cory; Miniver Cheevy by Edward Arlington Robinson

 http://home.att.net/~chuckayoub/Eleanor_Rigby_Lyrics.html  by The Beatles

(2) Seven Short Novel Masterpieces edited by Leo Hamalian

*From Great Conversations 2,  purchased from the Great Books Foundation last season www.greatbooks.org.) 

**These are readings to be purchased on your own.